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Big Noise music education scheme hailed as a success in Dundee

Big Noise music education scheme hailed as a success in Dundee
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Dundee Rotary Club donates £5,000 to Big Noise music programme

© Supplied by Sistema Scotland Musicians Ruari (Double Bass) and Grace (Violin) demonstrate their instruments to Mary Crighton of the Dundee Rotary Club which has donated. Sistema Scotland Sign up for our daily newsletter of the top stories in Courier country Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Dundee Rotary Club has donated £5,000 to the Big Noise music education programme, which will allow them to buy more instruments. The club has donated the funds to Big Noise Douglas, which was launched by Sistema Scotland to help children realise their potential, improve lives and strengthen communities through music, nurturing relationships and establishing community-focused orchestras.

Changing the world through music - online jukebox raises funds for Big Noise Dundee

© Mhairi Edwards Tonight, an online jukebox of musicians will come together to perform songs of solidarity and struggle. It’s to raise funds for the children’s Big Noise Douglas Orchestra which is supported by Optimistic Sound, the charity established in memory of the late Michael Marra. Organised by the University of Cooper Gallery, the event is part of the wider project ‘The Ignorant Art School: Five Sit-ins towards Creative Emancipation’, launched earlier this year with Sit-in #1 by internationally celebrated Scottish artist Ruth Ewan. An Optimism Class: A Jukebox of People Trying to Change the World brings together a range of choirs and solo artists, where contributors will perform songs that explore ideas of social transformation.

Lesley Riddoch: How to reclaim our Bard s legacy for a Burns Night like no other

WHAT will you be doing this Burns Night? One thing’s for sure. You won’t be going to a community centre, village hall, church hall, friend’s front room or hotel function suite to attend an actual Burns Supper. Does that mean celebrations won’t happen at all in 2021 or could the whole clanjamfry jump online, introducing Scotland’s national poet to new generations, New Scots and folk previously scunnered with Burns Supper ritual – pleasingly familiar for some but off-puttingly formulaic for others? The pandemic will force Scots to decide. Is the Bard’s legacy meaningful enough to get us all on Zoom, holding virtual Burns Suppers across borders, counties and countries with dispersed meals of haggis, neeps and tatties?

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