Summer Jam 2020 Online

So we're up and running with our virtual Summer Jam week! Our next video is from Jodie - she's going to introduce you to the sign of the week - SUMMER!

After lunch today, PMZ''s Summer Jam continues with a little something from our Baton Beats extraordinaire, Rob, who is going to lead us in some Samba call and response. You will be able to take part wherever you are, no instruments required!

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This is part of a series of on and offline resources, community creations, activities and workshops designed and produced in lockdown to engage, entertain and encourage the various communities that work with Plymouth Music Zone.

If you would like to find out more please either head to our website https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/ get in touch via email info@plymouthmusiczone.org.uk or visit us and say hello over on social media.

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PlymouthMusicZone
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmzofficial
Website: https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/

Bringing you a little sunshine and joy from PMZ's special celebratory performance event in the Summer of '18!

The groups performing at PMZ's 'Summer Jam in the Park' have all been creating music with PMZ Music Leaders and come together to share a fun-filled morning in the sun. Over 250 people got involved on the day, including pupils from local primary school St Joseph's and secondary school pupils performing as part of our 'Rhythm and Respect' project, all the way through to some fabulous music and dance from our 'Moving Sounds' group. Bringing their special magic to the whole day was PMZ's oldest and wisest participants from many of the residential homes and sheltered housing settings we work in.

Intergenerational Coordinator Rob Tilsley tells us about Summer Jam in the Park and the film provides a taste of the joy that music can bring to some of the delightfully diverse groups we work with.

Many thanks to Jodie Saunders for improvising around the theme composed by Moving Sounds which has been as the main soundtrack behind this vide.

Filmed by Steve Becket at Be Free Media.

With special thanks to our funders:
Big Lottery Fund
Arts Council England
Lloyds Bank Foundation
Youth Music

Also, huge thanks to the people of all ages who came from all of these wonderful places to be involved in the day:
Marine Academy Plymouth
Plymouth Highbury Trust
Woodlands School, Inc.
Plymouth Foyer - Liverty
St Luke's Hospice Plymouth
Stroke Association South West
Parkinson's UK
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
University of Plymouth
Far Flung Dance Theatre
Caring for Carers
Devonport Views - Extra Care Housing (Liverty)
St. Barnabas - Extra Care Housing
Astor Court - Assisted Living
The Rise - Specialist development for people aged over 45 with visual impairments
St Paul's - Extra Care Housing

As part of Plymouth Music Zone's Summer Jam online week, Rob Tilsley who runs the Baton Beats percussion workshop lives streams on FB, sharing some call and response patterns from Samba that you can join in with from home.

You can view the original FB post with comments here: https://www.facebook.com/PlymouthMusicZone/videos/736256683601304

You can also follow the Baton Beats playlist here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiyOoe8br2C0l0cuEK3Xw4BConFIoNtTG

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This video is part of PMZ's Extraordinary Times Programme, a series of on and offline resources, community creations, activities and workshops designed and produced in lockdown to engage, entertain and encourage the various communities that work with Plymouth Music Zone.

If you would like to find out more please either head to our website https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/ get in touch via email info@plymouthmusiczone.org.uk or visit us and say hello over on social media.

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PlymouthMusicZone/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmzofficial
Website: https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/

As part of PMZ's Summer Jam week, we are proud to share with you this lovely song, written and composed by PMZ early years music leader Josie Newton. This sounds especially beautiful when the sun in shining, so enjoy singing along with Josie!

#PMZSummerJam #PMZtogetherness

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This is part of a series of on and offline resources, community creations, activities and workshops designed and produced in lockdown to engage, entertain and encourage the various communities that work with Plymouth Music Zone.

If you would like to find out more please either head to our website https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/ get in touch via email info@plymouthmusiczone.org.uk or visit us and say hello over on social media.

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PlymouthMusicZone
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmzofficial
Website: https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/

This is the video 'keepsake' made at Devonport Views extra care housing scheme as part of Plymouth Music Zone's 'Keep Singing, Keepsake' Project.

Filmed and edited for PMZ by Steve Becket from Be Free Media.

Funders for this strand of Plymouth Music Zone's work include Lloyd's TSB Foundations, Arts Council England, the Big Lottery Fund, Affinity Sutton Housing and the David Gibbons Foundation.

Bringing you a little sunshine and joy from PMZ's special celebratory performance event in the Summer of '17!

The groups performing at PMZ's 'Summer Jam in the Park' have all been creating music with PMZ Music Leaders and come together to share a fun-filled morning in the sun. Over 250 people got involved on the day, including pupils from local primary school St Joseph's and secondary school pupils performing as part of our 'Rhythm and Respect' project, all the way through to some fabulous carers in our 'Carefree Choir' and 'Friends Uke-Nited'. Bringing their special magic to the whole day was PMZ's oldest and wisest participants from many of the residential homes and sheltered housing settings we work in.

Intergenerational Coordinator Rob Tilsley tells us about Summer Jam in the Park and the film provides a taste of the joy that music can bring to some of the delightfully diverse groups we work with.

Look out for the 'Batsonbury Stage' - Music Leader and Training & Research Manager Anna Batson had everyone singing along and dancing on the grass in between the performances. A joyful sight indeed!

Filmed by Steve Becket at Be Free Media.

With special thanks to our funders:
Big Lottery Fund
Spirit of 2012
Arts Council England
Lloyds Bank Foundation
Dunhill Medical Trust
Youth Music

This is a very special piece of music called ‘Together’, which is all about togetherness, although we are apart.

It has been put together with long time PMZ partner the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment ‘Our Band’ includes OAE musicians, students from City College Plymouth and staff and volunteers from PMZ.

The project has involved musicians both here in Plymouth, London and King’s Lynn. Other groups involved in the project are from Cricket Green School and Churchill Park Academy.

For many years PMZ has been working in partnership with the amazing Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Many of you have taken part in these projects, or perhaps you know someone who has. Every time we all meet, amazing music happens. We listen, learn, play, create and explore what it means to be a musician. How could this work if we couldn’t be together? How incredible it is that despite the challenges of these extraordinary times, musicians pulled together across the country to create something truly magical!

A big thank you to Cherry Forbes from OAE for the lovely introduction, to James Redwood who pulled this all brilliantly together and thanks to all the wonderful musicians (and their fabulous instruments) involved.

You can find more about the OAE on their website here:
https://oae.co.uk/
Look out for more in the autumn as this wonderful work grows and more people get involved!

#PMZSummerJam #PMZtogetherness

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This is part of a series of on and offline resources, community creations, activities and workshops designed and produced in lockdown to engage, entertain and encourage the various communities that work with Plymouth Music Zone.

If you would like to find out more please either head to our website https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/ get in touch via email info@plymouthmusiczone.org.uk or visit us and say hello over on social media.

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PlymouthMusicZone
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmzofficial
Website: https://plymouthmusiczone.org.uk/