18th July 2013
Children from four local primary schools joined together in song during a special World Music Day concert.
Hosted by Bridport Arts Centre, the event was the culmination of a four-day residency by London-based group Musico Musica.
The concert featured pupils from Bridport Primary School, St Mary’s Primary School (Bridport), St Catherine’s RC Primary School and Symondsbury Primary School – 120 children in all.
The young singers had all taken part in the ‘World Music Academy on the Road’ – a celebration of music and song from diverse cultures.
During the week-long residency the children worked with musicians from Gambia, Chile, Nigeria and the UK, listened to a variety of South American and African instruments including the charango, the bombo, sabars and the panpipes, and learnt songs in four languages – English, Spanish, Wolof (Gambia) and Yoruba (Nigeria).
Julie Kingston, Music Coordinator from St Mary’s Primary School, described the initiative as “absolutely brilliant.”
She said: “All the children, including those who do not always respond well to music were enthused, and the effect carried on into other aspects of their work.
“They were fascinated to meet people who had actually been born and lived in other countries and were able to make connections to their own lives which has increased their understanding of the global nature of the world.”
The project was funded by a grant for Rural Isolation projects from Youth Music via WAVE in Bournemouth.
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