Northamptonshire Music and Performing Arts Service
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Northamptonshire, England, has an extensive music and performing arts service to provide instrumental music lessons in local schools. The service supports 15 Saturday morning music centres and many music and drama groups, all within Northamptonshire. Membership of the county level groups is determined by an annual audition process in July. For most groups there are 3 levels: junior, training and county.
There are groups covering ensemble, orchestral, brass band, wind band, jazz, rock, guitar, percussion, voice, drama, dance and early years music.
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[edit] Location
The music service is housed in a Victorian school building on the corner of Clare Street (named after John Clare) and the Kettering Road, in Northampton.
[edit] Performances and Events
Groups from the music service perform at the Derngate, Spinney Hill Hall, Cripps Hall and other venues.
Each year, there are residential courses at Grendon Hall.
The music groups and groups from the Saturday morning centres take part in the National Festival of Music for Youth. In the 2007 festival in Birmingham, the following groups were presented with awards [1]:
- County Youth Concert Band (outstanding)
- County Youth Brass Band (highly commended)
- County Youth Orchestra (outstanding)
- County Youth Big Band (outstanding)
- County Youth String Sinfonia (highly commended)
- Arnold Wind Quartet (highly commended)
- Daventry Strings (highly commended)
- County Junior Strings (outstanding)
The music service is often represented at the Schools Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in November.
[edit] Saturday Morning Music and Performing Arts Centres
These are located in the following areas:
- Brackley
- Cheney
- Corby
- Daventry
- Duston
- Favell
- Ferrers
- Guilsborough
- Kettering
- Kings Cliffe
- Oundle
- Roade
- Towcester
- Spinney Hill (formerly Trinity)
- Wellingborough
[edit] References
- ^ Music for Youth - Youth Music, Young people and music, Regional Festival, National Festival, Festival of Youth Music, Schools Prom, Primary Prom, Lollipop Prom, Prom, Rock
