Primary Music Magazine
Issue 3.2 Summer 2019
Bringing the World to your classroom
Mike Simpson discusses Inspire-works online learning platform which brings world music experts to the heart of your music curriculum. It was 17-years ago that my wife, Jacqui who was then a head of drama in a school in Surrey, came home from teaching at school one day and suggested that we move abroad to learn more about how music, dance and drama were taught in other cultures. We spent a fabulous year living on the wonderful tropical island of Bali, and set up Inspire-works upon our return in the summer of 2003. It soon became apparent that we needed to expand so started to employ other world-music workshops facilitators who were experts in other world-music genres. Today, we’ve got 15 facilitators who deliver workshops to over 70,000 children per year.
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