WE MAKE CULTURE
making change through making music
music makers // talent developers // confidence lifters // community builders
We are a social enterprise, based in Sunderland, and we deliver high quality music-making programmes across the city.
Our mission is to bring people together through music-making, supporting the development of creative confidence and increasing people’s capacity to fulfil their potential and be heard.
Featured Projects
Young Musicians Project
Young Musicians Project enables young people (age 13-19) the opportunity to come together on a weekly basis to begin writing their own songs, and to take their first steps toward performing, producing and recording their own work.
YMP participants are supported to make links with the wider music community in the city and region: we work from the Field Music recording studio, perform at local venues such as Pop Recs and Independent and use local recording studios to record work.
Young Musicians Project is supported by Youth Music and Sunderland Music Hub.
Next Steps
Next Steps is a talent-development programme which supports emerging music creators (16-25) from the North East, offering a skills development programme to develop industry knowledge, meet your peers, explore collaboration and the opportunity to access a professional development grant.
The Next Steps programme is supported by PRS Foundation, Youth Music and is run in partnership with Generator.
Front Street Songs
Front Street Songs is a project which turns front streets, back lanes, yards, parks and community centres into music venues, and presents family-friendly gigs and activities.
Led by musicians Ashleigh Lowes and Paige Temperley, we provide instruments for everyone to get involved, and encourage the whole family to sing along!
Watch this space for details of our Front Street Songs Community Tour 2023!
Front Street Songs is supported by Sunderland City Council, Sunderland Integrated Care Board and National Lottery Community Fund.