More Music Events Oct 21 - Apr 22

Gigs Festivals MOREEvents Singing Exhibitions

Oct21—Apr22

Lady Nade / Sat 22 Jan 2022

More Music is a community music and education charity based in the West End of Morecambe for over 25 years. We involve people of all ages and all backgrounds in our events, bands, choirs and workshops, encouraging people to take risks and discover their voice.

With the knowledge that communities flourish when they are able to determine their own future and have the power to develop their own opportunities – we bring people together to celebrate this in our festivals and performances.

We all know that loneliness, isolation and poor mental health have all been exacerbated during a year of lockdowns and social restrictions, particularly for young people. Over the last 18 months we have enabled individuals and groups to access creative activity, explore new ways of making music and sustain relationships. We are thrilled to now be back in our building with a diverse range of artists and musicians.

We bring people together

We’re thrilled to be working with Morecambe Artist Colony to present a series of exhibitions, showcasing talented local artists. Over the course of the season, we will be exhibiting works from Anthony David Padgett and Richard Davis.

We hope you like our brochures new look, made with both you and the planet in mind. Printed on paper from environmentally friendly sources, once you have you have finished browsing, we’d love for you to pass it on to someone new who may be interested and/or make sure to recycle it when finished with!

To book Tickets click on the links at

moremusic.org.uk or call 01524 831997

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Support us

Our mission is to build confidence and spirit in individuals and communities through creative arts activities, particularly music.

When people have access to varied opportunities, are encouraged to take risks and are respected, they make new friends and connections, experience improved mood and learning, and personal development takes place. However, poverty creates barriers to participation because people are struggling to meet their everyday needs.

Making a donation can help in a variety of ways: — Support a young person to develop creativity, transferable skills and gain confidence — To combat loneliness and isolation with our music for health programmes — Help people with special educational needs find a way to express themselves

£20

could… enable a young

person access to their first creative experience

£50

could… help our Seagull

It’s easy to donate to show your support:

Café for 60+ continue and help stop loneliness

£100

could… support young

women to have the confidence to feel positive about their future

Text MOREMUSIC (then add the amount you would like to donate) to 70085. EG. ‘MORE MUSIC 5’ to donate £5.

If you do not wish to receive marketing communications, text MOREMUSICNOINFO (then add the amount you would like to donate) to 70085 Scan our secure and easy Paypal QR code

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Community Sunday 3 October 1—5pm

More Music Free

Fun palace

Sharing Skills, Connecting Communities, Creating Tiny Revolutions Fun Palaces is an annual, free, nationwide celebration of culture at the heart of community, using arts, science, craft, tech, digital and heritage activities as a catalyst for community engagement.

Join us for Fun Palace 2021 at More Music. There will be lots of activities for all the family to enjoy.

Veggie synth jamz – discover how fruit and veg can be the gateway to free form jamming! Banana beats, Veggie vibes, Fruity loops!

8-bit animation – Make moving images that free your mind! Shooting

stars of hope, lightning bolts of inspiration, lightbulb moments, shamanic journeys, surreal dreams.

To book Tickets click on the links at

moremusic.org.uk or call 01524 831997

Step by Step – A singing walk along the prom ideal for all ages.

Join singing leader Anni Tracy for a singing walk along Morecambe promenade to gently improve health and lift spirits, while taking in the beauty of the bay and stopping occasionally to sing a few songs.

Experience the joy of knitting with Frances Create a piece of textile art using pigment from plants and petals with Amy from Secret Garden Learning Make glittery bath bombs with Joe

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Inspire

Reaching Out Network Meeting Thursday 7 October 10am—12pm On Zoom Tickets £8/£14/£16

A training, development and future-thinking network hosted by music organisations More Music and Brighter Sound.

The Reaching Out Network is aimed at project managers, programme managers and anyone else planning and managing inclusive music activity across the North West for children and young people. This meet-up is an opportunity to develop partnerships and share learning and understanding around inclusive and accessible music practice across the region.

If you’d like to join the network email info@moremusic.org.uk

10, 11, 12 December

Girls Can Artist Bootcamp II

Friday 10 December 5–8pm Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 December 10.30am–5pm More Music Free

From backing track to band

Calling aspiring vocalists, songwriters, musicians, producers and engineers.

Empowering and inspiring young women to achieve their full potential, the second in our series of 3 Artist Bootcamps focuses on professional development as artist, engineer or musician.

Girls Can supports young women to have the confidence to challenge stereotypes and to feel positive about the future and the choices they make.

Join Sarah Angel, IORA and Harriet North, our brilliant, professional, resident artists, for an inspirational three-days developing your musical, technical and professional practice:

— Construct your ‘sound’ collaborating with musicians and producers — Write and record your tracks — Explore the process of releasing your music — Master the art of rehearsal & performance preparation — Develop your profile as an artist, technician & musician — Develop your sound tech and lighting skills For young women & people from marginalised genders aged 14 – 19.

To find out more, email rachel.parsons@moremusic.org.uk.

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Live Music

Saturday 9 October

Doors 7.30pm, music from 8pm More Music Tickets £5/£8/£10 Livestream tickets £5 Hymns For Robots is a live Electronic music session in Lancaster. Expect synths, laptops & controllers, modular loveliness and any manner of intriguing electronic fun.

Hymns for Robots Me Lost Me | Nathalie Stern

MIDNIGHT SkyRACER Midnight Skyracer have come a long way in a very short time. Since forming in 2017, the Anglo-Irish all-female quintet have become festival sensations across the UK, Europe and Australasia, toured regularly at home and released a critically-lauded debut album. They also carry the distinction of being the first British act nominated for an award by the International Bluegrass Music Association.

Hymns For Robots Electronic Music Session is back at More Music for a special show featuring two super fine Newcastle based producer/vocalists with support from Guerrilla Biscuits and projections from Ash Murphy.

Sunday 10 October Doors 7.30pm, Music from 8pm More Music Tickets £8/£14/£16

“…probably the best bluegrass I have heard from a non-American band.” fRoots

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Live Music

SAM Lee Old Wow Tour

Sunday 24 October with support from Paddy Rogan

Doors 7.30pm, Music from 8pm More Music Tickets £16/£17.50

Sam Lee is an acclaimed, award winning, inventive singer, a folk song collector, conservationist and founder/director of The Nest Collective who’ve helped shake up the music scene and injected life back in to the folk/trad and world acoustic scenes.

Sam is a committed environmental campaigner whose work includes the ‘Singing With Nightingales’ helping to highlight the threat to these and other endangered species. In 2019, Sam was musical director for the RSPB campaign ‘Let Nature Sing’, which resulted in 3 minutes of bird song entering the Top 20 UK music charts. Sam is a founding member of Music Declares Emergency and is closely involved with Extinction Rebellion.

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To book Tickets click on the links at

moremusic.org.uk or call 01524 831997

Live Music

Lady Nade

Leveret

Saturday 22 January 2022

Friday 11 March 2022

Doors 7.30pm, music from 8pm / More Music

Doors 7.30pm, music from 8pm / More Music

Tickets £8/£10/£12

Tickets £14/£15/£16

This Bristolian Songstress fills your heart with words and melodies that nourish the mind, body and soul.

Share a room with her, and she’ll give you her story.

All of it. The joys and sorrows. You will love her for it, and she will love you back.

“Rising star of the Americana scene” Ralph McLean, BBC Radio Ulster

Leveret is a unique collaboration between three of England’s finest folk musicians. Andy Cutting, Sam Sweeney and Rob Harbron are each regarded as exceptional performers and masters of their instruments. Together their performances combine consummate musicianship, compelling delivery and captivating spontaneity.

To book Tickets click on the links at

moremusic.org.uk or call 01524 831997

Sam Amidon

Friday 18 March 2022

Sam performs old work songs, ballads, hymns and other sonic artefacts from the past, reimagining them in bold, creative new ways to breathe new life into them and recontextualising them alongside original compositions.

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Doors 7.30pm, music from 8pm More Music Tickets £15

From 12 noon Sun Square Lancaster Free

Live Music

Friday 15 & Saturday 16 October

Friday 15 October 4.30pm | free More Media Collective

Lancaster Music Festival We are proud to work in partnership with Lancaster Music Festival to put participation at the centre of the festival.

Workshops

Saturday 16 October 10am Clapping Song at The Gregson Centre 1.45pm & 2.45pm Chinese Music workshop at The Storey Sunday 17 October 2pm & 3pm Dhol drumming workshop at The Gregson Centre Full details: lancastermusicfestival.com

take over the Market Square Stage with a showcase of up and coming bands from the North West.

Saturday 16 October | free More Music Presents

A showcase for More Music groups Sun Square, Lancaster

12:00 12:30 13:00 14:15 14:30 15:15 16:30

Bay Youth Voices Baybeat Streetband Musicians from Stages LYVE - Lancashire Youth Vocal Ensemble Baybeat Streetband Dr Fabola Dot Crotchet and the Raging Harmonies

More Media Collective present

Stages Live and Loud Spooktacular Thursday 21 October 6pm – 9pm More Music Tickets £3 More Media Collective present

Chameleon - The New Age Friday 3 December 6pm – 9pm More Music Tickets £3 A fundraising gig for local charities supporting young people and mental health through creative projects

More Media Collective PresenT More Media Collective are a team of young creatives based at More Music producing events, content and providing a platform for artists.

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Early Years

Magic Islands of Music

Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 November 10am, 11.45am & 2pm More Music Tickets £5/£7.50 For children aged 3 and under and their parents/carers

Magic Islands of Music takes place in a specially created environment where objects, instruments and playful interventions gently flow. Immersive and interactive activities blend singing, music, light, texture, colour and shadow to create a magical experience for very young children and their families. This amazing session encourages children to explore freely and according to their own instincts.

To book Tickets click on the links at

moremusic.org.uk or call 01524 831997

Raven Tales

A story show with songs, shadows and lots of joining in for children under 5 and their parents/carers.

Ravens are clever inquisitive creatures and Maeve is no exception.

Join her on her journey discovering different places and meeting new friends, as she searches for somewhere to live following a big storm at her home.

Hop a long with the frogs in the pond, buzz with the bees in the beehive nightclub, sing and sign ‘River, River’ as Maeve flies above.

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Saturday 8 January 2022 10am, 11:45am, 2pm

Sunday 9 January 2022

10am, 11:45am, 2pm More Music

Tickets Pay what you feel £0.50 — £10

Festivals

Lantern Festival Join us for an afternoon of performances and workshops culminating in a celebratory lantern procession and community singing. Our building will be decorated with paper, light and projections taking inspiration from 2021’s Lighthouse for the West End.

Saturday 4 December 2pm - 7.15pm

Procession starts at 6pm from More Music Free

Lantern Making Workshops at More Music Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 November / 10am – 4pm / Free Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 November / 10am – 4pm / Free Come along and make your own lantern to carry in the parade

To book Tickets click on the links at

moremusic.org.uk or call 01524 831997

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Live Music

To book Tickets click on the links at

moremusic.org.uk or call 01524 831997

Haiku Salut Lamp Show

Nosferatu

Yorkshire Silent Film Festival Sunday 31 October

Thursday 4 November

7.30pm

Doors 7.30pm, music from 8pm

Morecambe Winter Gardens

Kanteena

Tickets £5 - £12.50

Tickets £12/£10/£8

A creepy silent film classic with live score for Halloween!

A Light up Lancaster fringe event presented by More Music and Hymns for Robots at Kanteena

Local, creative jazz orchestra, Off The Rails improvise an atmospheric live score in Morecambe’s most beautiful and atmospheric theatre.

With the incredible Lamp Show at the centre of the evening audiences will also enjoy a special performance of Red Rose: A Song for Lancashire

by Little Boots performed by LYVE and a set from Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan.

Nosferatu is supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network.

Join together to hear and sing along with songs from pioneering singer songwriter Sufjan Stevens’ 10 EPs of Christmas Music.

Featuring Dot Crotchet and the Raging Harmonies, the Brandy Burner Band and a glowing throng of lead singers both visiting from afar and cherished locals.

Sufjan Stevens’ Songs for Christmas Saturday 11 December Doors 7pm, music from 7.30pm

Lancaster Priory Tickets £7 adults, £1 children

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If you’d like to join the Brandy Burner Band contact ben.mccabe@moremusic.org.uk More Music are supporting the band ‘Fowl’ – the core of the Sufjan Stevens’ Songs for Christmas ensemble – with a residency 13 – 16 December. As well as getting musically reacquainted in the real world, the band will be guests at Seagull Café, present an Early Years music training session and an informal free performance on Thursday 16 December at 7pm.

Events

Saturday 2 October 6pm

Preston Free Premiere performance of newly commissioned songs composed

by Loz Kaye using crowdsourced lyrics from across Lancashire.

Performers include Lancashire Youth Vocal Ensemble (LYVE), Baybeat Streetband, Jubacana and the Cacophony Arkestra.

The songs explore the continuing climate change emergency.

There’ll be a premiere within the premiere of Little Boots’ Song for Lancashire ‘Red Rose’ which LYVE will sing as part of the show!

Encounter Voices: Right Here Right Now

Holocaust Memorial Day

Sunday 30 January 2022

The Holocaust threatened the fabric of civilisation, and genocide must still be resisted every day. Our world often feels fragile and vulnerable and we cannot be complacent. Even in the UK, prejudice and the language of hatred must be challenged by us all.

Holocaust Memorial Day is for everyone. Each year across the UK, thousands of people come together to learn more about the past and to take action to create a safer future.

Join us in Lancaster for a candle lighting ceremony as we remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, and the millions of people murdered under the Nazi Persecution and in the genocides, which followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

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6pm Garden of Remembrance Lancaster Free

EXHIBITIONS

POPSTRACTION Until Monday 18 October

6.30pm

More Music Free An intuitive response to Plato’s Theory of the Forms this exhibition is part of an on-going experiment in outline and colouring, drawing and painting.

Anthony David Padgett

Streets in the Sky

Photography Exhibition by Richard Davis

This series of photos taken by photographer Richard Davis, back in the late 1980’s/early 90’s, whilst he was living in Manchester’s notorious inner-city district Hulme. Richard is a British social documentary and portrait photographer based in the North West.

He has exhibited with the British Culture Archive in London, Manchester & Berlin, as well as having work published by renowned photography publishers, Cafe Royal Books.

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Friday 22 October – Monday 10 January 7pm

More Music Free - please book your place

News

Demo Tapes Demo Tapes, an exciting new collaborative venture with North West Sound Archive and with music groups around the north west to create new works about protest.

Groups from More Music, Collective Encounters in Liverpool and Brighter Sound in Manchester listened newly digitised pieces from the sound archive and created new pieces in response.

Lancashire Youth Vocal Ensemble (LYVE), Baybeat and More Media Collective incorporated Demo Tapes into their regular weekly sessions. Working with Project Manager Joe Harrison-Greaves and music facilitators Phil Howley and Pops Roberts,this was an opportunity to understand the theme of protest, and to learn to navigate the sound files of the North West Sound archive.

The More Media Collective was inspired by sounds of the industrial North, Joy Division and The Smiths. After listening to an excerpt discussing culture in the gay clubs of Manchester, the group was drawn to the phrase ‘this is your last chance to dance’ and took this as their inspiration. Their track ‘Last Chance to Dance’ explores historic LGBTQA+ experiences in relation to restrictions on contact, movement and expressing intimacy in public. The song, enabled the group to explore these issues, whilst highlighting their similarity to the restrictions imposed on the public during the pandemic.

Baybeat took on the theme of climate change with a new opportunity to use

vocals and lyric writing within their performance with a striking statement of, “Some people think there is no end so let’s look after the environment.” It was great to have Baybeat as part of the project as it had particular relevance to protest/marches and street bands.

In LYVE the group used a sample of a particular interview in their song from Luchia Fitzgerald’s interview with Sarah Feinstein in 2016 for the OUT! project.

Luchia is remembering the start of the GLF (Gay Liberation Front) in Manchester, at the Picador club in Shudehill in the 1960s.

This was a wonderful opportunity for the groups to understand the theme of protest in the context of the North West Sound Archive and to use this extraordinary resource as a means of creative inspiration.

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