Music for Youth
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Music for Youth is a British charity with a world wide reputation for its work in music education. It provides free access to educational and performance opportunities for groups of young musicians and audiences through a series of festivals and concerts throughout the nation.
2 million children have taken part in Music for Youth events since 1971. Sixty thousand 4 to 21 year-olds took part in 76 Music for Youth festivals and concerts in 2006, with 85% of these coming from state schools.
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[edit] Types of Festivals
[edit] Regional Festivals
These annual festivals provide free and open access to children who want to perform, in groups or as a solo. There are 23 categories to choose from, and there are no particular requirements for an artist to be able to join. The regional festivals are a perfect opportunity for children to perform outside of the school sector, and to gain valuable performance skills.
[edit] National Festivals
For one week every summer, 300 choice groups from the regional events give concerts to the general public. Usually over 10,000 children take part, with over 800 different pieces of music being played in the space of one week. In 2005 and 2006 the concerts took place in Birmingham.
[edit] Schools Proms
The Schools Proms at the Royal Albert Hall celebrate brilliant music-making by young musicians, singers and dancers from all of the British Isles. 3,000 young performers, from schools and music groups of every kind, come together to perform over 3 days of exquisite music. The children play to audiences of up to 14,000 and the bands range from boy-bands to symphony orchestras.
