As music budgets are severely cut in schools and more students are seeking private tuition, recent figures released estimate that the live music sector makes a huge £3.5 billion economic contribution to the UK economy.
£1.66 billion of that comes from musicians, composers and songwriters.
There are more than 17,000 music performances a year in London alone, while London based artists like Adele have had some of the world's best selling records. The... Read More »
The provision of music tuition in schools has decreased in recent years. Whether that's individual instrument lessons or group singing lessons, it seems that music just isn't on the menu when it comes to many pupils' educational diets.
It seems as though this is a trend that we need to reverse. According to a recent study by the University of the Arts, Lond... Read More »
On 10th September 2009, leading musicians including Jamie Cullum and Killa Kela led an interactive nationwide music lesson to kick-start 'Music Year'. This is a new government initiative to get over two million schoolchildren playing a musical instrument by 2011. There is to be an investment of £330 million between 2008 and 2011 to encourage schools to push music on their curriculum, but the... Read More »