COUNTY WIDE MUSIC PROJECT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
AMPLIFIER - MUSIC FOR LIFE
- Are you in to rock and pop?
- Do you play – or want to learn to play?
- Are you aged 11 to 25?
- Then why don’t you come to Amplifier - Music for
Life?
Amplifier - Music for Life runs practical rock and pop music
workshops across the whole of Suffolk, giving young people the
opportunity to gain invaluable experience in all aspects of rock
and pop music.
Regular sessions are held during term time and many groups also
organise holiday sessions - please see below for more details.
Workshops
BURY ST EDMUNDS
Regular sessions: -
- Day: Wednesday
- Time: 6.30pm to 8.30pm
- Venue: The Rehearsal Rooms, St Andrews Street South, Bury St
Edmunds, IP33 3PH
- Cost: £5 (£1 concessions)
- Spring term 2010: 13 January to 24 March
inclusive
- Half term break:17 February
- For more details please email
Amp and Deck or call 07960
558678
DEBENHAM
Regular sessions: -
- Day: Tuesday
- Time: 6.30pm to 8.30pm
- Venue: Community Centre, Debenham High School
- Cost: £5 (£1 concessions)
- For more details, including dates for the Spring term, please
visit the Amplitude
website
EYE
Regular sessions: -
- Day: Monday
- Time: 6.30pm to 8.30pm
- Venue: Eye Community Education Centre, Church Road, Eye IP23
7BU
- Cost: £5 (£1 concessions)
- For more details, including dates for the Spring
term, please call 07813 489450 or visit the
Amplitude
website
HALESWORTH
PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS AVAILABILITY ON SOME OF THE REGULAR
SESSIONS STARTING IN SEPTEMBER - FOR MORE DETAILS, PLEASE DO
CONTACT WAVENEY
AMPLIFIER.
Regular sessions: -
- Day: Monday
- Time: 5.00pm to 7.00pm
- Day: Monday
- Time: 7.15pm to 9.15pm
- Autumn term 2009: 14 September to 30 November
- Half term break: 12 and 19 October
- Day: Thursday
- Time: 4.45pm to 6.45pm
- Autumn term 2009: 17 September to 3 December
- Half term break: 15 and 22 October
- Venue: The Cut Arts Centre, 8 New Cut, Halesworth IP19 8BY
- For more details, please contact 07974 126793, or email
Waveney Amplifier
- You can also learn more Waveney Amplifier by visiting their
website
IPSWICH
Regular sessions: -
- Day: Wednesday
- Time: 6.30pm to 8.30pm
- Venue: CSV Media, 120 Princes Street, Ipswich, IP1 1RS
- Autumn term 2009: 9 September to 18 November
- Half term break: 28 October
- For more details please email the
Project
Administrator or call 01473 295930
MILDENHALL
Regular sessions: -
- Day: Monday evenings
- Time: 6.30pm to 8.30pm
- Venue: St John's Community Centre, St John's Close, Mildenhall,
IP28 7NX
- Cost: £1 per session
- Autumn term 2009: 21 September to 30 November
- Half term break: 26 October
- For more details, please call 07960 558678 or email the
Arts and Heritage
Officer at Forest Heath District Council
NEWMARKET
Regular sessions: -
- Day: Friday
- Time: 5.30pm to 7.30pm
- Venue: The Leisure Centre, Exning Road, Newmarket CB8 0EA
- Cost: £1 per session
- Autumn term 2009: 18 September to 27 November
- Half term break: 30 October
- For more details, please call 07960 558678 or email the
Arts and Heritage
Officer at Forest Heath District Council
STOWMARKET
Regular sessions: -
- Day: Wednesday
- Time: 6.30pm to 8.30pm
- Day: Thursday
- Time: 6.00pm to 8.00pm
- Venue: Stowmarket Community Education Centre, Childer Road,
Stowmarket IP14 1PP
- Cost: £5 (£1 concessions)
- For more details, including dates for the Spring
term, please visit the
Amplitude
website
SUDBURY
Regular sessions: -
- Day: Tuesday
- Time: 6.30pm to 8.30pm
- Venue: The Eden's Project, 45 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury,
CO10 1NU
- Spring term 2010: 12 January to 23 March inclusive
- Half term break: 16 February
- For more details please email the
Project
Administrator or call 01473 261142
SUFFOLK COASTAL DISTRICT
Amplifier activities and events in the Suffolk Coastal area are
managed by
Soundwaves
- do visit their site for more details or email Soundwaves
here.
The Soundwaves Summer Tour kicked off on 26 July at Xtremefest,
Felixstowe, featuring bands from last year's Ultimate Bands
contest.
Soundwaves is also on the lookout for new up and coming talent
in the Coastal area to take part in the 2009/10 Ultimate Bands
Contest. If you are aged 11-26, are in a band / are an artist, can
perform at least 3 original songs, and live in the Suffolk Coastal
area, visit
Soundwaves to
find out how to enter! Prizes include a day in a professional
recording studio, music industry workshops, and your music on the
next Soundwaves Album.
THURSTON
Regular sessions: -
- Day: Thursday
- Time: 6.30pm to 8.30pm
- Venue: Thurston Community Centre
- Cost: £5 (£1 concessions)
- For more details, including dates for the Spring term,
please visit the
Amplitude
website
About the workshops
The workshops are run by professional musicians, all carefully
selected for their relevant and specialist experience. Many are
gigging musicians, while others have broader music industry
backgrounds – so whether you’re in to playing, dj-ing, song writing
or gig management, Amplifier can help you develop your skills.
They are open to anyone aged between 11 and 25, and take place
in a variety of venues, from commercial studio premises to youth
clubs and arts centres. They run in the evenings at a
price that is affordable to all; there is also a concessionary
rate. Some venues also organise holiday activities.
We provide a broad range of equipment, from percussion and
guitars to decks and keyboards. Participants may also bring their
own instruments, but please be aware that use of your electrical
equipment will be subject to a visual check by the tutors, and
participants will not be allowed to use any piece of equipment that
fails that check.
Amplifier and your organisation
Amplifier can also provide tailor-made workshops, from one-off
events to programmes of sessions running over several weeks. Our
tutors, all of whom are fully CRB checked, are experienced at
working with arts access agencies, Pupil Referral Units and within
the prison service, and also receive regular training and updates
relating to working with vulnerable groups.
If you would like to know more about how Amplifier could provide
for your rock and pop needs, please contact the
project
administrator for details:
The Amplifier Project
c/o The Arts Development Manager
Culture, Sport and Communities
Suffolk County Council
Adult and Community Services
Endeavour House
Russell Road
Ipswich IP1 2BX
Email: sharon.closs@suffolk.gov.uk