A year of adaptation & creativity
As we mark a year of lockdown restrictions, it’s astonishing to look back at how much we have achieved. It certainly wasn’t a situation anyone would have wanted, but [...]
Making Tracks
Opportunity for young people in Kent to make music online
Making Tracks is excited to be partnering with The Prince’s Trust for a specially adapted online project to Get Started With Music! We’re looking for young people [...]
Making Tracks with young people online
Since lockdown began we’ve found various ways of moving our Making Tracks programme for young people online, made possible with the support of project funder Youth Music, [...]
Young Producers ‘Spirit of Utopia’ performance on 21.11.19
We’re excited to introduce our three new Young Producers: Lucine, Jahanzeb and Montell. For the last few weeks they have been working together to decide on their induvial [...]
Making Tracks’ first video: Melodic in the Mist
We’re very proud to present the first ever official music video created as part of Making Tracks! Young people from The Prince’s Trust in Poplar on our Making [...]
Young Londoners Fund: how we’re using music to change young people’s lives
The Irene Taylor Trust is delighted to be one of the first organisations to be awarded funding from the Mayor’s Young Londoners Fund, an important new initiative to support [...]
Food for Thought; Making Tracks participants reflect on youth violence
We recently worked with a group of young people from Lewisham YOS on a MakingTracks project, to write and record music for a new album, which they titled Food For Thought. [...]
Project Oracle Standard 1 Validation
We’re excited to announce that Making Tracks has been validated as a Standard 1 project by Project Oracle! The validation recognises how our project formula (an [...]
Track of the Month – ‘My Life’
This stunning, evocative song was recorded live during the intensive week of the 4th cohort of ‘Making Tracks’, back in 2013, featuring Nirobi on lead vocals with backup [...]
Making Tracks at the Marcus Lipton Youth Centre
Next month we’re excited to be taking our Making Tracks programme back to South London, working in partnership with the Marcus Lipton Youth Centre. This project is [...]
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