James Brookes - Soundscapes Project Manager

Hi my name is James and I am responsible for the loud, sound and running on the ground, Woolavington Soundscapes project, you will have seen from my previous posts we have been, very, very busy exploring the many different ways you can experience music making.....@ its best :-)

Music is everything to me, what would you do without it!

You can listen to some of my music here.... http://jamesbrookes.bandcamp.com/album/fusion-fear

Enjoy....

Cheers. James

Soundscapes Taster Sessions - More information on the next round of taster sessions are here :-)

This is some list of taster sessions! that are taking place over the next couple of months....take a look and see just what you could have a go @ :-)

Woolavington Village Soundscapes Project - Samba Band Taster Session

The Soundscapes Samba Band Taster Session, this was a great session that produced some great sounds at a great volume! Good times all round :-)

Soundscapes Project DJ workshop

The Woolavington Soundscapes Project - DJ taster session, what a great noght of DJ training it was for the group of 12 young people! Fantastic stuff :-)

some of our instruments

Here are some of our instruments.
People coming to Heart Beats will be given a chance to help choose which new instruments to buy with our Somerset Community Foundation Funding.
Shopping! Sounds good. Don't miss the fun.

A Count Me In session

Here's Russ and Jane playing music with the crew from Six Acres (Taunton) and St James' resource centre (Yeovil ). Every month we'd turn up and support the staff to Make Time for Music.
This project's finished now, but you follow the story on our blog Making Time for Music.

Leah

This is Leah. She's going to help us run Heart Beats. Her job is to make sure everyone is involved in the way they choose.
She will be there to look after you if you need help or support.
Leah works in a Special School in Frome.

Funding for equipment - good news

We can now add this logo to our blog thanks to a kind offer of funding from the Somerset Community Foundation.
They are helping us to purchase some new music equipment especially for Heart Beats. So when you come along we'll have a chat about what instruments you think we should chose.

BREAKING NEWS

Very excited and pleased this afternoon, we've had a very positive response from the Somerset Community Foundation regarding a funding application for some extra equipment ....more news on this to follow .... soon.
More stuff - more music - more fun - can't be bad!

Stay Up Late

We're with these guys on this
http://stayuplate.org/

In the paper

http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Music-sessions-people-learning-difficulties/story-14401781-detail/story.html

Co-supervision with James

One of the great things about Heart Beats is that I get to have co-supervision and co-management meetings with James Brookes from SRYP.
James runs the Youth Music Power Play project Soundscape .
Our meetings are a chance to share successes, and what we've learned. That really helps when you're running everything yourself. Sometimes it helps to have another perspective on things.
I'm sure both projects will benefit.

Embrace Create Connect

We're going to this conference! Exciting!
http://www.embracecreateconnect.co.uk/

Hello from Russ

Hi I'm Russ.I love trying to get music out of any instrument, even if I've never tried it before.Things with strings are good but I enjoy drums and percussion too.My favourite thing to do is playing music with other people outside on a sunny day.

Hello!

Hello! I'm Alex, I'm another one of the Heart Beats Music Leaders. I enjoy playing lots of instruments in lots of different ways! It doesn't matter to me what I'm playing, the thing I love the most is making music with other people.
I really enjoy making music spontaneously, making it up on the spot in other words! I also think that everyone is a musician, it's just that some people don't know it yet...

I'm a Heart Beats music leader

Hi - I'm Jane and I'm a Heart Beats music leader.
I play guitar, bass, flute, and percussion. I play in two bands, lead workshops and teach guitar.
I like all sorts of music - especially music that surprises me, or makes me smile. Best of all I like playing, especially when everyone else is joining in.
Come and join us!

do you love music?

Recruitment full steam ahead

The Heart Beats team want to thank Nell Farrally for a fine days work on our recruitment drive - making contacts, phone calls and emails, sending out a press release and generally spreading the word. Cheers Nell!

SRYP Rural Music Network Presents the Soundscapes Music Taster sessions for the community of Woolavington

Welcome one and all to our new HEART BEATS blog.

Hi everyone! This blog is where we can share ideas, news and thoughts about Heart Beats - the new music project run by COUNT ME IN, funded by Youth Music and Flourish Homes.

Heart Beats is a music club for young people with learning disabilities between the ages of 16 and 25 - it doesn't matter where you live, or if you play music yet. We're here to help you do that! Heart Beats happens on Thursday evenings, twice a month in term time, at Wells Museum. The two hour sessions cost £1 per person and start at 6.00 p.m.
To join up, you can email info@heartbeats.org.uk or ring 01373 813558.

We'll use this blog to keep in touch with you, and also share news and ideas with our partner project, Soundscape, which is run by Somerset Rural Youth Project and funded by Youth Music too.