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 [...]
Media
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 [...]
Our participants interviewed on BBC World Service
This morning on BBC World Service ‘World Update’ participants from our Making Tracks and Sounding Out programmes were interviewed alongside Sara Lee, our Artistic [...]
Track of the Month – ‘A Picture of Me’
We recently needed to order some new copies of our songbook ‘A Picture of Me’. The fresh books arrived in the office last week, and gave us the excuse to revisit a very [...]