News!
January 2024
MERYC England Trustee
MERYC England is a registered charity committed to advancing the musical education of children aged 0-5 years in England.
December 2023
Curator of Sounding Board Journal - Early Years edition
Focusing on creative practice with 0-4's and their families and carers; stories from the early years music community.
December 2023
International Centre for Community Music (ICCM) 8th Annual Student Research Symposium
It was a pleasure to present my MA research at this annual symposium, discussing community music research from around the world.
December 2023
MA in Community Music at York St John University - Graduation!
I graduated from York St John University with a Merit. The Community Music MA is practice-led research into community music, underpinned by theory. You can find my paper "How Has Covid-19 Impacted The Community Musician? The welcome, hidden costs, adaptability and recovery in practice" and podcast "The Community Musician" on this site.
September 2023
Blue Cabin Associate Artist
Blue Cabin nurtures meaningful relationships between care experienced individuals, and the people and organisations who are part of their lives. Creativity is at the heart of all that we do.
September 2023
We Make Culture & Wearside Women In Need (WWIN) Thrive Project
Working together to explore the impact of embedding music-making activities in domestic abuse settings with the aim of creating positive, hopeful experiences for children, young people and their mothers who have survived domestic abuse and to utilise the wellbeing boost that music-making can bring.
January 2023
Blue Cabin & Darlington Borough Council - This Is The Place
Using early years music-making to help build relationships and attachment, working with care experienced babies and young children 0-4 years and their carers. Sessions are co-led by myself and Katie Doherty at Theatre Hullabaloo, Darlington.
September 2022
Sound Sense Board Member
Sound Sense supports, promotes and advocates for our community musician members and the community music sector in the UK and internationally.