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Music Map - Yorkshire
Each month we list music venues, organisations, shops and events around England that we think you should know about. This month, we’re looking at what’s going on in Yorkshire.
Jump to: West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire; South Yorkshire; Yorkshire Wide Hobgoblin Leeds The Yorkshire Playhouse Northern Music Leeds College of Music Breeze Leeds Waxworks Music Initiative Leeds Jazz Leeds International Concert Season Hoot Connecting Youth Culture (CYC) Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Kala Sangam Opera North South Asian Arts UK (SAA-uk) Square Chapel Centre for the Arts Huddersfield Jazz Musical Arc Love Apple Café Music and the Deaf Wakefield Jazz Banks of York The National Centre for Early Music York University Concert Series Ripon City Music Hull Jazz Festival - J Night Whitby Music Port Live Music Now Fibbers Rockem Music Shed, The (coupled with Pied Piper) Get Sorted Wavelength Arts Higher Rhythm Just Addictive Music Konimusic Sheffield Jazz Sheffield City Hall Jazz Yorkshire Making Music, Yorkshire Beaumont Street Studios Music 4U
World Music Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
www.hobgoblin.com
Musical instrument shop, specialists in acoustic, folk and traditional musical instruments, tutor materials and accessories.
www.wyplayhouse.com
The Playhouse provides both a thriving focal point for the communities of West Yorkshire. It programmes theatre and music of the highest standard for audiences throughout the region and beyond.
www.northernmusiconline.co.uk
Musical instrument shop in Pontefract supplying students, teachers and professional musicians. With the Northern Music Academy, they’re able to support music education with concerts, tours and workshops.
www.lcm.ac.uk
The UK's largest music college, with over 1000 full time and 2000 part time students. As the only specialist music college to offer both Higher and Further Education courses, Leeds College of Music provides a unique opportunity for students to progress from BTEC courses through to Undergraduate and Postgraduate degrees.
www.breezeleeds.org
Provides positive activities for under 19s who live in Leeds and gives information on other events suitable too. Get a Breezecard for discounts at sport centres and entertainment venues and entry to Breeze events, as well as to access the members area on their website.
info@waxworksmusic.org
Waxworks is a small Bradford-based Social Enterprise that provides music, I.T. & digital media activities, tuition and education to disadvantaged and socially excluded young people. It is dedicated to the creative arts, social inclusion and community cohesion.
www.leedsjazz.org.uk
Leeds Jazz, founded in 1984, is a not-for-profit organisation run by the voluntary efforts of its committee to provide a platform for Jazz musicians of international standing from Britain and overseas.
www.leedsconcertseason.com
Run concerts in a variety of venues throughout Leeds.
www.hootmusic.co.uk
Hoot offers a range of opportunities for people to get involved in music, dance and other creative activities as a way of improving physical and emotional wellbeing.
www.c-y-c.co.uk
Organisation working with the arts and youth culture to help young people unlock their potential. Also put on annual youth arts festival; Festival 07, and music industry development project for young musicians; 6K Vision.
www.hcmf.andymayer.net
This year celebrating their 30th birthday with some premier names in contemporary music including musikFabrik and the Arditti Quartet, iconic composer Robert Ashley makes his Huddersfield debut, plus the Nieuw Ensemble makes a welcome return as part of a Dutch programme featuring HCMF 2007 Composer in Residence, Yannis Kyriakides.
From 16 – 25 November at various venues.
www.kalasangam.org
Kala Sangam is a key regional and national South Asian arts company in Bradford. It produces a programme of high quality work in South Asian arts, particularly dance and music.
www.operanorth.co.uk
Opera North is a nationally important large-scale opera company based in Leeds, touring mainly in the North and Midlands.
www.saa-uk.org.uk
South Asian Arts UK is a significant music and dance organisation based in Leeds. It aims to extend its work with arts, community and educational partners and to build audiences, and support young and professional artists.
www.sq-chapel-arts.demon.co.uk
The Square Chapel Centre for the Arts is a community-based arts centre in Halifax that offers a programme of performance work, activities and outreach work.
www.huddersfield-jazz.co.uk
A non-profit making organisation run on a voluntary basis by a small group of jazz enthusiasts whose aim is to provide live jazz music featuring a variety of the best national and international jazz as well as providing opportunities for newly emerging musicians.
www.musicalarc.com
Based in Leeds, Musical Arc provides opportunities for people to create and perform their own music, regardless of disability.
www.loveapplecafe.co.uk
Café/bar based in Bradford with regular live music.
www.matd.org.uk
Music and the Deaf is a unique charity that brings music and the performing arts to deaf people and those who live and work with them.
www.wakefieldjazz.org.uk
Dedicated jazz club with daily programming.North Yorkshire
www.musicroom.com
Musical instrument shop over three floors, with a specialism in educational, classical and ensemble music.
www.ncem.co.uk
Situated in St Margaret’s Church York, is the home of the internationally renowned York Early Music Festival and the Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival. The Centre also attracts some of the world’s finest artists in the fields of jazz, folk and world music.
www.yorkconcerts.co.uk
The annual concert season is an important part of the University’s involvement with the community and is an opportunity to hear some of today’s top professional musicians as well as sampling the high quality of student music-making.
www.riponmusic.co.uk
Stock full range of instruments and sheet music. Employ a full time luthier who designs and builds guitars and repairs all stringed instruments.
www.hullcc.gov.uk/jazz/news.php
An annual jazz festival and a year-round programme of events featuring international, national and regional artists that plays a key part in Hull's cultural life. The Festival and J Night programme aims to increase the profile of jazz and world music and provides a professional platform for the celebration of diverse musical and cultural genres.
www.musicport.fsnet.co.uk
Organisiation that puts on the annual cross-genre festival, as well as other concerts. Visit their website for info about the festival later this month, and to see what else they’re doing.
www.livemusicnow.org
Live Music Now is a participatory arts organisation that brings live music into the community and provides performance opportunities for the best young professional musicians. The organisation brings music to people who would not normally have access to it and undertakes a variety of arts development programmes.
www.fibbers.co.uk
Live music venue in York, programming new alternative music.South Yorkshire
www.rockemmusic.com
Drum specialist in Rotherham offering a wide range of stock
British Federation of Brass Bands
www.bfbb.co.uk
The British Federation of Brass Bands is a national brass band agency based in Barnsley. It champions the activities of brass players and brass bands and works to develop professional practice through networking, professional support and training, sharing information, collaboration and advocacy.
Music in the Round
www.musicintheround.co.uk
Music in the Round, in Sheffield, promotes chamber music concerts, related educational provision and a variety of arts development programmes. Music in the Round aims to make chamber music accessible to everyone.
Pied Piper (coupled with The Shed)
www.piedpiper.org
The Pied Piper Project was launched in 1997 and works with professional musicians and young people in a series of free gigs and workshops, village halls, youth centres and schools. Based in Ryedale, North Yorkshire, the project is led by Sarah Derbyshire - UK director of Live Music Now! - the Yehudi Menuhin founded scheme for young musicians, and Simon Thackray, the man behind The Shed®
www.theshed.co.uk
The Shed is a unique, high quality arts venue in rural North Yorkshire that specialises in promoting and producing innovative and diverse arts events.
www.getsorted.uk.com
Get Sorted Academy of Music is a vibrant and exciting music and education project for children, young people and adults, based in Rotherham.
www.wavelengtharts.com
A new organisation, based and working in Doncaster and the Dearne Valley area, which aims to initiate and develop innovative Community Arts projects, encourage and foster the local Artistic Community, encourage collaborative projects artworks and performances between the different artistic disciplines, and generate original new artwork and music.
www.higherrhythm.co.uk
A not for profit group offering industry level recording facilities. Also offer a range of training programmes and accredited courses in music and recording.
www.addictivemusic.org
Provide participatory arts and educational projects and cultural events to Local Authorities, Community Associations, Arts Centres and schools. Focusing primarily on arts from the African Diaspora Just Addictive Music create workshops and provide training in many aspects music production, recording and performance.
www.konimusic.co.uk
Sheffield based programmers of contemporary world roots music.
www.sheffieldjazzandswing.org.uk
Advocate and promoter of Jazz in Sheffield.
www.sheffieldcityhall.co.uk
Regular live music.Yorkshire wide
www.jazzyorkshire.org
JazzYorkshire is the development agency for jazz in Yorkshire and the Humber. Its mission is to promote and develop jazz through a variety of arts development programmes.
Musicians in Residence
www.musiciansinresidence.org
Musicians in Residence is a development agency that supports musicians and promoters in Yorkshire through providing subsidy for public performances. The organisation provides support for small and medium-scale promoters to engage high quality artists working in all areas of music
Yorkshire Youth and Music
www.youthmusic.org.uk
Yorkshire Youth and Music is a regional youth music development organisation. Its core aims are to bring music to young people, support artists through training, promote music as a personal development tool for young people, and pass on skills and leadership to sustain work in this area.
www.makingmusicyorkshire.org.uk
Making Music is the largest association of amateur music makers and promoters in the UK.
www.beaumontstreet.co.uk
Specialise in training, supporting people into employment/self employment and providing opportunities for involvement in music, media and the cultural industries. A not-for-profit company whose services are particularly geared to addressing needs in disadvantaged communities across Yorkshire
www.humber-music4u.com
Music4U is the Humber Region’s Youth Music Action Zone, running a wide range of music activities across the region.
www.worldmusicyorkshire.co.uk
Open to any individual or organisation working within the World Music Sector. The aim of the network is to enable increased networking and respect between artists, promoters, managers, venues and others who are active in the world music scene in Yorkshire with a view to building opportunities for ideas sharing, collaborative projects, increased opportunities for work and professional development.
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