<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>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>Join us for an evening of Murder Mystery in Dalry,</p> <p>The play will be performed by a local theatre comapany (Beith Theatre Company) and can be enjoyed by people of most age groups.</p> <p>These events are great fun and using only the&nbsp;little grey cells, the audience are invited to&nbsp;follow the clues and solve the mystery!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</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><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>Gaelic is very much alive on Arran with a good number of reasonably competent learner and native speakers from all parts of the community including several part time folk singers and two professionals, we also have a well known Bardach author.We have an annual feish and through the Arran Music School we have a pipe band and a plethora of clarsach and fiddle players.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>It has beed agreed that we establish an Arran Gaelic Choir open at first to adults over 18 the inagural practice took place on Tuesday 14th November at the Ormidale Pavillion Brodick and we enjoyed learning two new songs with a target to sing at the Christmas Carol Service on the 18th of December.Another close target is the potential to attend the annual MOD in Oban 2024.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>We have agreed to meet on a two weekly basis on a Monday and to organise Zoom meetings in between,a President,Treasurer and Social Media administrator have been appointed and our basic constitution is attached.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Currently we are without funds although we are considering a couple of fundraising events including concerts, we do however have a need for funds as summarised below, we would welcome your contribution of &pound;400 together with fundraising each member if able will pay a subscription of &pound;10 per month and a &pound;2 attendance fee to support hall hire. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /> &nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>