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June 2020

29 Jun 2020

North Yorkshire County Youth Orchestra Tunes Up for Lockdown Performance!

Thursday 9 July, 10.30am at www.connectresound.live/watch The fifty members of the North Yorkshire County Youth Orchestra will present a brand new, lockdown performance to homes and schools across the county and beyond on Thursday 9 July at 10.30am. The event will be live-streamed at www.connectresound.live/watch   ... more...

29 Jun 2020

Cumbria Music Hub invites families and young people to enjoy musical comedy cabaret

Free online performance by Graffiti Classics Wednesday 8 July, 2pm at www.connectresound.live/watch 16 strings, 8 dancing feet and four voices will be setting alight screens across Cumbria and beyond on 8 July from 2pm as Graffiti Classics presents a musical comedy cabaret show for families and young people – available to watch... more...

24 Jun 2020

Lull your little ones to sleep!

Lull your little ones to sleep with live-streamed performances of lullaby: Sonic Cradle at facebook.com/NYMAZ Thursday 2 July, 11am Tuesday 7 July, 2pm Wednesday 15 July, 7pm Monday 20 July, 9.30pm Youth music charity NYMAZ announces the dates for four new live-streamed performances of Lullaby: Sonic Cradle, a soothing contemporary soundscape which... more...

19 Jun 2020

Rural Fest Schedule!

The schedule for Rural Fest is out! Make sure to tune in throughout the day on Sunday 21 June for brilliant performances as part of Make Music Day here! ... more...

19 Jun 2020

Music for the Senses!

This year at Rural Fest we have two workshops specifically for babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers! These workshops will be hosted by ‘Rhythm Time’ and from mother and daughter duo Judith and Amy Williams. They will be providing engaging and fun activities for your little ones to get involved in. Rhythm... more...

19 Jun 2020

Rural Fest 2020 Artist Feature: Herenui Crawford

Only a few days to go until Rural Fest 2020! Hopefully you have been keeping up with our artists features which have been trickling out of Rural Fest HQ for the past week. Today, we will be discussing French singer-songwriter, Herenui Crawford, who will be taking to the stage this weekend. ... more...

19 Jun 2020

Rural Fest 2020 Artist Feature: Fiona Burton and Emma Wright

Back again with another Rural Fest 2020 feature and this time, we are talking about two phenomenal creatives who will be working together in a collaborative project called ‘Tidal Contours.” Fiona Burton and Emma Wright, a visual artist and a musician respectively, grew up in the same town on the east... more...

19 Jun 2020

Awakening your Mind and Body for Rural Fest

We have two creative performances hailing from North Yorkshire’s very own, Skipton. Joining us for special events on 21 June as part of Rural Fest. Awakening our bodies as the sunrises on Rural Fest join Ebru Evrim in a one-off morning yoga session combined with the spell binding music of... more...

19 Jun 2020

Rural Fest 2020 Artist Feature: Salman Toheed

This year at #RuralFest2020 we are excited to see a performance given by Salman Toheed! Toheed is new to the music scene, he is an up and coming indie singer-songwriter from Norwich. Drawing on his cultural heritage Toheed writes songs in Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and English. Toheed’s music relates... more...

14 Jun 2020

Party In Your Bedroom

One of the acts we are excited to see this year during our first ever virtual festival is Fresh Junk! They will be bringing Rural Fest to a close with their epic 2 hour live set from 9pm on the 21st June. A Leeds based experimental DJ group created by friends... more...