Primary Schools Team up for Feast of Recorder Music

PRESS RELEASE

Issued on behalf of Kent Music

March 2014

PRIMARY SCHOOLS TEAM UP FOR FEAST OF RECORDER MUSIC

Young musicians from 23 primary schools across Kent will work together to perform an exciting range of recorder music at two concerts in Maidstone and Canterbury.

The Kent Music recorder festival, which has been running for more than 30 years, gives primary school children the chance to practise a set number of pieces in small groups before coming together to perform them in a large ensemble in front of an audience.

The young musicians, aged 9 to 11, will perform a mixed repertoire of jazz, blues and popular children’s tunes suitable for the recorder.

Featuring seven local schools, the Canterbury Recorder Festival will be held on Tuesday March 25 at the Canterbury Academy, Knight Avenue, Canterbury, at 7pm.

Another 16 schools will take part in the Maidstone Recorder Festival on Friday March 28, from 7pm at All Saints Church, Mill Street, Maidstone.

Tickets are £5 for adults and £3 for children, available from Denise Milne at Kent Music on 01622 358435 or by emailing .

Peter Bolton, chief executive of Kent Music, said: “The recorder festival marks the culmination of many weeks of hard work in which children rehearse with their teachers in small groups before coming together to perform in a large ensemble in an inspiring setting.”

The schools taking part are:

Canterbury concert: Briary Primary School, Deal Parochial CEP School, Eastling Primary School, Herne CEJ School, Sandwich Junior School, Selling Primary School, St Peter’s Catholic Primary School.

Maidstone concert: Allington Primary School, Barming Primary School, Harrietsham C of E Primary School, Hartlip Endowed CEP School, Hunton CEP School, Lenham Primary School, Lunsford Primary School, Mereworth Community Primary School, Palace Wood Primary School, Sandling Primary School, St Margaret’s Collier Street, St Michael’s Junior School, East Farleigh, Holy Family Catholic Primary School, Platt CEP School, St Peter & St Paul C of E Primary Yalding.

To find out more about county music groups and choirs, tuition and instrument hire, visit www.kent-music.com or call 01622 691212.

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Notes to editors

·  Kent Music, founded in 1948, is a registered education charity and one of the largest music education services in Europe. It delivers instrumental and vocal teaching to more than 14,000 students; employs some 200 peripatetic teachers both full-time and part-time; and organises music groups and summer schools. Kent Music is a partner in music education with Kent County Council.

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