COMMUNITY
Pandemic fails to silence Mull Music Makers It has been over a year since parent-led project Mull Music Makers has been able to hold workshops in person but a virtual solution has hit the right note for now. Usually a team of specialist music educators and violin instructors travel across to Mull from the mainland to teach around 40 youngsters at monthly workshops on the island, but when the
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virus brought that to a halt, the project went online instead so youngsters could still access live musicianship sessions and violin lessons. Before lockdown and going on line, Mull Music makers use to hold monthly in-person workshops The project has grown since going online last May to see new virtual ensemble sessions set up in some
of the island’s schools and youngsters compose their own parts for a new Sounds of Mull creative piece premiered at a virtual summer concert in July. ‘Our main aim was to keep the learning going – the last thing we wanted after years of boosting the number of young people playing musical instruments on the island was for youngsters to
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