Track of the Month – Mission (Acoustic)
In June 2015, Sounding Out alumni Gary and Adrian were invited to appear on ‘Outside In: Live Music Special’ for broadcast on National Prison Radio. As well as being [...]
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Track of the Month – ‘The Person I Lost’
‘The Person I Lost’ is an original song from the ‘Two Sides’ project, featuring Declan on vocals.’Two Sides’ was a project run [...]
Track of the Month – ‘Deeper’
A little trip back to May 2009; we collaborated with Synergy Theatre Project on a production of the play ‘Fallout’ at HMP Brixton. Find out more about the [...]
Lullaby Project film
In her ‘postcards’ from the project in Chicago this Spring with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, our Artistic Director Sara Lee mentioned the Lullaby Project. Here [...]
Track of the Month – ‘Sleepy Eyes’
“Working with women on the song book for children was a very powerful experience. To create something that had such a strong connection to their lives, that is, their [...]
Track of the Month – ‘So Scared’
A glorious track from a 2006 project at HMPYOI Holloway, with a beautiful lead vocal from Rochelle and lyrics about a moment of honesty with a loved one about fears and [...]
Track of the Month – ‘Mama Dukes’
Simply one of the most emotional tracks ever created on any of our projects, perhaps inevitably as it was written by a group of young men at HMPYOI Swinfen Hall about their [...]
Music in Prisons featured on WGXC Radio ‘Prison Voices Project’
There is a sizeable section about our work in prisons on the latest WGXC Radio ‘Prison Voices Project’ broadcast, which you can listen to here. From about 15 minutes in [...]
Ban on steel-stringed guitars in prisons lifted
We’re delighted that a ban imposed on prisoners using steel-stringed guitars in their cells has been lifted by new Prisons Minister Andrew Selous. In June, our Artistic [...]
Track of the Month – ‘Today’
We’ve had some great original songs emerging on recent projects, but a standout has to be ‘Today’ by Heritier from Making Tracks Cohort 5. “When I sing a song I [...]
The Irene Taylor Trust 