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Our Halifax Youth Orchestra practising today at Halifax Unity for our concert in the Crossley Gallery at Dean Clough on Tuesday evening with Halifax Chamber Choir. (There was a special guest playing tambourine!) CultureDale Rima St. Augustine's Centre 🧡 Calderdale Music

TONIGHT IN HALIFAX! This will feature the first outing of our new Halifax Youth Chamber Orchestra. Calderdale Music CultureDale Rima Jon Boden BBC Leeds Jimmy Rotheram (@musicedu4all.bsky.social)

Thanks for hosting this event as part of our CultureDale project, Beech Hill School

What a wonderful evening! Well done to the fantastic current members of our Music for the Many school orchestra who performed along with former members at the Halifax Chamber Choir festive celebration. Thank you for inviting us to join you! 🎵

Here's our youth orchestra playing the Palestinian song, Mawtini, last night at Dean Clough.

Here's our M4M Halifax youth chamber orchestra playing Silent Night at Dean Clough (next to a lovely Fazioli grand piano!)

Our Halifax crew playing at Dean Clough this week.

Our Halifax crew playing last Saturday in Boothtown.

If deaf children can learn to read, do they learn to read without phonics? If so, how are they doing it? If they are doing it without phonics, is it possible for hearing children to learn how to read without phonics? Charlotte Hacking

Merry Christmas, Jon!

One day to go before the biggest community event of the year - the Iftar Under The Stars event at The Halifax Academy. Book your tickets now, and enjoy the games, activities and over 20 stalls. The Jalebi King himself will be coming to serve fresh jalebi!

We are VERY EXCITED to announce that we are receiving a grant from Youth Music Trailblazer Fund. to develop youth voice to empower our young people in their music making and to reach those young people who face the most barriers to accessing musical opportunities. Rima

Here's the building of Todmorden Town Hall in A Todmorden Cantata. Come and hear us perform the whole cantata on saturday 5th April at 4pm in Tod Town Hall, celebrating its 150th birthday. ticketsource.co.uk/todtic/todmord…

Here's a bit of our performance of A Todmorden Cantata last Saturday for Tod Town Hall's 150th anniversary. youtu.be/3qYHjzC2Olg

More from our performance last Saturday in Tod. Rima youtu.be/u0DJD9aV2Pc

Here's another movement of A Todmorden Cantata from our performance during the 150th anniversary celebrations of Todmorden Town Hall. youtu.be/haaAZxBjNTM

Our friend Rima has got a brilliant new podcast series!

Findings from recent case study research (Cairns-Ratter, 2023) demonstrated the importance of communication and musical engagement beyond language for non-verbal autistic children. Musical play, sensory toys and flow experience were all important characteristics of engagement.

Hey! We're having a guitar festival in Todmorden. Rima

Guitar teachers, we're looking for nice junior guitar ensemble arrangements of Asturias and of stanley Black's Cavatina. Have you any you could send our way?