‘Hitting the Right Notes’ Newsletters

• Spring 10 (312KB - pdf help)
• Autumn 09 (309KB - pdf help)
• Summer 09 (336KB - pdf help)
• Spring 09 (210KB - pdf help)
• Autumn 08 (269KB - pdf help)
• Summer 08 (277KB - pdf help)
• Spring 08 (280KB - pdf help)
• Autumn 2007 (220KB - pdf help)
• Autumn 2005-6 (97KB - pdf help)
• Winter 2004-05 (106KB - pdf help)
• Autumn 2004-05 (49KB - pdf help)
• Summer 2004-05 (1.29MB - pdf help)
• Spring 2004-05 (321KB - pdf help)

Projects 2008 / 2009

• Song4Devon Competition

Projects 2007/08

• Devon Schools Mix (NaNMB - pdf help)
• Exeter Festival Launch
• Ugandan Project
• Africa Project
• Scrapstore
• Wider Opportunities in Every Primary Schooll
• Vocal Outreach Project with Exeter Cathedral
• Shout
• Sing Up Communities
• ‘Schooldays’
• Drakes School, East Budleigh
• Countess Wear School
• Samba for Behaviour Support Pupils

Noise Lab an exciting new Music/ICT project, introducing pupils to the use of computers and software in musical composition

Autumn 07

• National Music Council - Music Awards 2007 (100KB - pdf help)
• Youth Sing (40KB - pdf help)
• John Pitts Recorder Workshops

Spring 07

• DMS Ensemble Brass Day with Robert Childs - 13th January 2007
• National Youth Jazz Summer School 2007 Auditions
  • Closing Date for submissions 23rd February 2007
• Planets Project - January to March 2007
• Peter and the Wolf - 16th February 2007
• AJ's Big Band - 28th March 2007
• Exeter Cathedral work with DMS to establish new Youth Choir  - Spring Term
• Joint Concerts in Devon Learning Communities - Spring term
• Devon Schools Mix XL - 27th June 2007

Winter 06

• Soweto Kinch to visit Devon Schools - November 2006
• Music Comes To Town - Exmouth - Saturday 2^nd December 2006

July 2006

Remix 06
More than 4,500 Devon youngsters from 138 Devon schools came together at Westpoint Arena & Showground on Wednesday 28^th June for Remix 06, the hugely successful annual music festival organised by Devon Music Service, which has been described as “a mini Glastonbury for young people.”

• Con Tempo Quartet - Fantastic Opportunities for Talented String Players
• Calling all Saxophone players! (50KB - pdf help)
• Music Comes to Town- Tavistock
• Jazz Jamaica

March 2006

• Music comes to town, 5th March 2005
• Abram Wilson and Tomorrow's Warriors, April 13-15 2005

February 2006

Young Blood Brass Band Masterclass
Devon Music Service is offering brass players the unique opportunity to work with this exceptional nine-piece ensemble from the U.S. in a public master class.

January 2006

Blue Peter Music Makers
BBC New Talent are conducting a nationwide search to find young music lovers and budding musicians to join the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra to make a new version of the legendary Blue Peter theme tune, Barnacle Bill.

Launch of Djembe Ensembles
Devon Music Service (DMS) is launching two Youth Djembe Ensembles this month, bringing the number of Devon’s county ensembles to ten.

Sing & Play 11 Music Festival – Newton Abbot - Saturday 4 February 2006
Help form a community symphony orchestra and choir, join in with World Music singing workshops or learn to play the steel pans with members of the North Stars Steel Pan Orchestra! All part of this year’s Sing & Play festival.

• Our work with Primary Schools (187KB - pdf help)
• Our work with Secondary Schools (90KB - pdf help)
• Music Teacher article featuring Ken Parr, Head of Devon Music Service (401KB - pdf help)

East Devon Music Centre Brochure (70KB - pdf help)

“This is our music” – Devon’s music strategy (277KB - pdf help)