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/