<p><u><a href="http://Arran Rock n Blues Festival is a family friendly music festival hosting live bands. It is a welcoming inclusive festival run over two days with two stages one being the village hall the other the garden at the hotel. Opportunities are given to local musicians to perform and a backline and professional sound engineer is provided. To supplement the festival we are hosting a market on the green which showcases local food, drink and crafts">Arran Rock n Blues Festival is a family friendly music festival hosting live bands. It is a welcoming inclusive festival run over two days with two stages one being the village hall the other the garden at the hotel in Lochranza. Opportunities are given to local musicians to perform and a backline and professional sound engineer is provided. To supplement the festival we are hosting a market on the green which showcases local food, drink and crafts</a></u></p>

<p>The Garnock Valley Pipes &amp; Drums are a group set up to provide free traditional music education to young people in the Garnock Valley.</p> <p>The group currently engage around 30 students each week to learn&nbsp;the bagpipes and snare drum, from as young as primary four up to sixth year at secondary school.</p> <p>This project not only allows young people to learn a new instrument completely&nbsp;free of charge, but also focuses on helping the attendees develop their confidence and social skills, developing their connection to one another as well as the wider community.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><meta charset="utf-8" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Writing for Well-Being is a 6-week, in-person course&nbsp;hosted by So in Flow with Molly Murray&nbsp;in Ardrossan, UK. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Building on my 15 years of experience as a writer and editor, and my knowledge as a Rapid Transformational Therapy Practitioner and Creative Flow Coach, I&nbsp;share tools for writing and for mental well-being. It&nbsp;is scheduled for Spring 2024 and Fall 2024.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Past participants reach out regularly to request that I hold this again!</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="background:white"><span style="color:black">I have an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow and a Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford Summer School at Exeter College, and I&rsquo;m the former <i>Outdoor Editor of Panorama: the Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature</i>. I&rsquo;m the author of a nonfiction memoir, <i>Today, She Is</i> (Wipf &amp; Stock, 2014), and my poems and stories have appeared in over 30 publications, including&nbsp;<i>Litro</i>,&nbsp;<i>The Curlew, and Third Wednesday</i>, and one was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.</span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">Music@Wellwood organises educational events, aimed mainly at Senior School pupils, and concerts which are open to all members of the community.&nbsp; In conjunction with North Ayrshire Council Music Services, Music@Wellwood wishes to organise a Strings Masterclass for young people from across North Ayrshire.&nbsp; Those participating would receive guidance, technical advice and possible progression pathways into music from the Head of Strings at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span></p>

<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Oor Hame is a project looking at what home means. Photo workshops will encourage young people to produce their own idea of what makes &ldquo;Hame&rdquo; and create an open air gallery in local shop windows.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp; A friendly community orientated concert band in the Garnock valley, promoting music within its community and beyond . Garnock valley community concert band (GVCCB) organises&nbsp; concerts and fundraising events throughout the year, with a minimum of two annual concerts with local music groups and school choirs. These concerts are extremely sucessful, giving the Garnock Valley a concert band it can be truly proud of. The band participates in&nbsp;outdoor, local events and fundraising oportunities&nbsp; - enabling them to participate in the National Concert Band Festival&nbsp;.This has been an award winning venture ,gaining a platinum award at&nbsp; the 2023 NCBF , and a gold plus award&nbsp; at the&nbsp; 2023 SCBF in Perth .</p> <p>GVCCB wants to encourage music throughout its locality- known to promote&nbsp;health and wellbeing especially within this&nbsp;rural community.&nbsp;</p> <p>We are looking to further promote the band by purchasing promotional goods such as banners,&nbsp;buy music to add to our&nbsp; existing library,&nbsp; and to replenish our music stands as&nbsp; many are in&nbsp; need of repair</p>

<p>We&#39;re applying for funding to allow us to run various green, environmentally friendly,&nbsp;workshops across summer as part of our Ayrshire sculpture competition.</p>

<p><meta charset="utf-8" /><b id="docs-internal-guid-77c13dfd-7fff-9620-a038-220aa8712bca">The inaugural Arran International Festival of Chamber Music and Song will launch between 22nd and 25th August 2024. A music festival for Arran that brings international artists to the island to perform for, meet and collaborate with the people of Arran. Cultural exchange to enrich the artistic landscape on the island and the lives of the local community.</b></p>

<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><span style="background:#fdfdfd"><span style="font-family:&quot;Lato&quot;,sans-serif"><span style="color:#222222">We are a community brass band organisation. We have a contest band, a community / fun band and a youth band. The youth band has&nbsp;25 players of all ages and we have around 20 in our brass and percussion learner groups. We wish to buy musical instruments for new youth learners and additional sheet music arrangements. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>