School of everything is a teaching and classes database for the UK.

If you're a teacher of music it could help you to get listed on the School of Everything. The more websites you're on, the stronger web presence you will have and the more links to your lessons will come up from a google search.

If you want to learn about anything, including music, it's a good starting point to find out what's on offer across the country.

Thanks to Tom from UC Crew for the reminder.

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The School of Everything seeks informal learning providers.

For its first orchestral event of the year the St. Helens Sinfonietta had lined up an all-Mozart programme, for which Alan Free came to the podium bearing proudly aloft the orchestra’s trophy from the St. Helens Cultural Awards 2010 – the “Creative Arts Award (professional practice)”. Mozart is always a sure-fire winner, and the orchestra had played most of the programmed items before, but the concert well displayed the steadily rising standards that have made the Sinfonietta eminently award-worthy.

Don't forget our music-net meeting on tuesday 2nd March - 2-3.30pm at the Citadel.

Everyone is welcome.

Jeremy Sleith will describe the developments in the Music Service for Schools in St Helens

Cowley Language College will host a unique event on Monday 1st March at 7pm
in their new International Hall on Hard Lane.
The Dave Hassell-Andy Scott Duo, comprising tenor saxophonist Andy Scott
and percussionist Dave Hassell, recently undertook an adventurous
collaboration with Mexican percussionist Evaristo Aguilar and photographer
William Ellis. Travelling deep into the Mexican rainforest, the quartet
embarked on a journey that would take them to Las Pozas, home to the late

The ‘hype’ band. The label that more often than not sparks the beginning of the end of so many musical careers. Too often do floppy fringed hopefuls fall by the wayside of record label politics, collapsing under the pressure of mass press coverage, seldom having the substance to back up the exposure.

UPDATE ----Looks like they did it!!! Here's the review on local TV - including interviews with Jeremy Sleith and Ian Haskell.

Congratulations to all the young people as well as the organisers.

Are You Aged Between 16 and 30?
Do You Have An Opinion On The Arts In St.Helens?

If so, St.Helens Arts Service Is Organising A Meeting On
Tuesday 16 February
5.30pm – 8pm
At The Citadel

This session will explore what you would like to see happen
within the St.Helens arts scene over the next few years and will

"Why is it that in our culture doing ­something extremely complex – like playing a ­musical instrument – only quite well isn't really valued? Surely there's something wrong in that."
Last year, a government report identified 49,140 amateur arts groups in England, of which 11,220 were formally constituted music groups.

Read this article by Charlotte Higgins in the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jan/18/amateur-classical-music-in-u...

Here's a poem written by Lady Sherwood, one of the participants in our recent workshops:

I know a song which is four minutes long,
It gives me the hope to help me cope.
When times are bad and i am sad,
This song uplifts my mood a tad.
Feeling Good by musicnet,
Is to me the best song yet.
Give the song a try and you'll soon see why,
That when it comes to sound -its the best around!

Lady said she'd been listening to the song over and over again since we completed it.

Music Leaders North West are organising the following meetup this friday -

Come & Join Us For a Chat and an early evening drink!

Do you work or are you interested in working in the Music Education sector? Would you like to meet other music leaders in the Merseyside region? If so, come and join MusicLeader North West, Merseyside Youth Association and Sense of Sound for some friendly informal networking and also to find out more about our organisations and the work we are doing.

Friday 15th January, 5.30pm - 7.30pm, at The Picket in Liverpool.