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| 7/26/2007: UK: Music education and music industry join hands | (Published by Margrit Müller) | In a move that combines music education for all and efforts to support the music industry, the British Department for Culture, Media and Sport is setting up a network of rehearsal studios for young musicians throughout the country. The action is a response to the recent report Making Every Child's Music Matter, published by Music Manifesto. The report found that 43 per cent of young people who wanted to participate in musical activity were deterred by the lack of facilities or huge costs.
The network is to be set up by Feargal Sharkey, former Chair of the Live Music Forum. The project will form a close co-operation of the music industry, local and regional government, equipment suppliers, and other representatives of the music sector. The work will involve getting funding, finding suitable locations and premises and turning them into proper studios.
A pilot project in Wrexham (Wales), which opened in January 2006, is seen as a major success. The local council donated space in a local building free of charge and the Music Industries Association provided instruments and equipment. Between May and August 2006, more than 700 people – the majority of whom were under 18 - used the rehearsal studio.
Network manager Feargal Sharkey said:
“It’s incredibly difficult to break into the music industry. To get a recording contract means everything to every young artist and being able to play well live is a vital ingredient of that. So it’s obvious that young musicians need somewhere decent to practice. Without new musicians and performers there is no £6 billion music industry. Without them the UK wouldn’t have such a fantastic reputation for groundbreaking music."
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Bernd Fesel, DCatherine Daraspe, DTonje Berg-Dawson, NMargrit Müller, EAT - DKarin Lilja, SKatalin Hegedüs, HCaroline Ceytte, FErling Pedersen, DK - DVera Dantas, PAnna Stepniewska, PLDoris Rothauer, A
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