Past Projects and Events …
Busking Festival 2022
Our annual Busking Festival took place on Saturday 2nd July 2022, along the beautiful beachfront in Lyme Regis.
Buskers of all ages braved the windy weather and drizzle and busked along the seafront and in the gardens. B Sharp’s young participants and trainees performed music created in our weekly sessions and entertained parents, locals and visitors in the Shelters performance area.
Young Creatives
Songs of Here;Songs of Now
Songs of Here; Songs of Now was a musical performance by B Sharp and local community participants in May 2022 celebrating young people’s original songwriting.
The performance expressed the young people’s response to the landscapes, places and times in which they find themselves living and growing up – including the landscape, and natural & built environment of the Jurassic coast and Lyme Regis.
Music for All
B Sharp’s Music For All Programme (2018-2021) aimed to engage children and young people in West Dorset and East Devon, including those in challenging circumstances, in music making activities, delivered by a supportive and high quality established and emerging workforce of music leaders, so everyone develops personally, socially and as musicians. The project was supported by Youth Music.
Read our project evaluation here
Music Futures
This year B Sharp delivered the MusicFutures programme – an exciting new initiative to support aspiring musicians aged 15-25 who interested in a career in music.
The group met monthly in Bridport to play and compose together, as well as learning about the industry through meeting local professional musicians, and taking part in industry workshops. They also received individual mentoring from local professional musicians.
Please see here to read the project evaluation
Spring Awakenings
B Sharp worked with Activate inclusive youth performance companies Remix and Premix in Spring 2020. Working alongside artist Jo Simons of Dorchester Youth Theatre, our music leaders supported the young people to create and perform a musical piece – Spring Awakenings.
Watch Spring Awakenings here
Busking Festival 2021
Great performances from our young participants and buskers B Sharp’s Busking Festival. It was fantastic to be able to share some live music with #LymeRegis again after so long. Thank you to all our participants, parents, volunteers, music leaders, trainees and supporters who made it possible! #BuskingFestival
B Sharp Radio Show
This term we’ve been working hard towards our own B Sharp Radio Show – a great way for our young musicians to get their music heard, while we can’t perform live.
Tune in to hear original music interspersed with a little Christmas fun! One of our Trainee Music Leaders has also been able to interview local folk musician, Seth Lakeman, who talks about his music and growing up as a musician in the South-West.
Tune in here to hear our Radio Show on Sunday 13th December at 6pm
Lost Words Songwriting Project
We delivered an exciting environmental and creative project with 120 year 3/4 children from Axe Beacon schools funded by the East Devon AONB sustainable development fund. Inspired by the research behind the beautiful book by Robert Mcfarlane and Jackie Morris, ‘The Lost Words’. Read more…
Fossil Festival
B Sharp has worked in partnership with Lyme Regis Fossil Festival for many years. We have worked with local schools to support young people to create their own original music around themes of geology, earth science, climate change and the local environment. We also have created opportunities for young people to perform their work as part of the festival. In 2020 we supported the creation of a range of music resources for primary schools https://earthsciencefestival.com/b-sharp-fossil-festival-songs/
Dohl Foundation
iWill Programme
The iWill fund (formerly known as Youth Social Action) was developed to help increase youth volunteering and social action. B Sharp worked from 2018-2020 with young people who wanted to gain work experience and build confidence in planning and running a series of events based on their own ideas. Young people put on events for their peers and their community including samba drumming performances, youth band nights and busking events.https://www.
Big Mix
B Sharp has produced 4 large scale community youth music festivals – Big Mix. These festivals have been run and delivered by young people working on all aspects of event production, mentored by a team of industry professionals. The Big Mix has showcased a diverse range of professional guest bands and musicians as well as local young talent. The event has been a fantastic success and we believe it developed a positive culture of live public music in a rural seaside community. Keep your eye out for our next large scale community event …
See more about Big Mix here …
ONE
B Sharp Singing 2016 – we completed a high quality, large scale, collaborative programme of singing to engage, progress and inspire.
See more about the One project here …
Coming Up
What’s On?
B Sharp always has a huge amount going on. Below you’ll find some of the events and activities coming up and that we’ve been involved with recently.
iWill
Are you a young person who would like to put on your own gigs and events with professional mentoring support? The iWill fund (formerly known as Youth Social Action) has been developed to help increase youth volunteering and social action from 40% to 60% by the year 2020.
B Sharp will be working with young people (volunteers) who want to gain work experience and build confidence in planning and running a series of events based on your own ideas.
We are recruiting now so please get in touch to register your interest and please tell others about it. Email info@bsharp.org.uk or 07947 334138
Winter Gig
Saturday November 24th. More information coming soon.
Busking Festival
Saturday May 25th 2019, 11am – 6pm.
Our Busking Festival is one of the most popular events of the year and the fact that it coincides with the brilliant action packed Jazz Jurassica makes it even better.
What’s Been On
Bridport Sounds
The best upcoming young contemporary bands from Bridport and around performed at our Bridport Sounds gig on July 21st. ‘The Collaborators‘ won the competition to headline the evening and performed supported by Pizza for Dogs and B Sharp’s own Bridport Jams.
Summer Cabaret
On Friday 6th July at The Hub in Lyme Regis B Sharp’s Summer Cabaret saw a whole host of local young musicians from our regular projects; Boombox, Hub Jams and Bridport Jams, B Sharp alumni, and Launchpad– B Sharp’s house band and music collective, coming together for a night of outstanding music.
Special guests included: Harvey Causley, Phoebe Townsend, Ellie Kirtley and Josh Crocker on sound. Thanks to everybody who helped make the evening a success.
Uplyme Fete
The ever popular Uplyme Fete was on Sat 9 June 2018. B Sharp’s LaunchPad performed live. More information on Facebook. If you would like to book the B Sharp band or musician for your event, fete or festival contact info@bsharp.org.uk.
Busking Festival
Sun, Sea and Great Sounds! That’s what we had at the 2018 Busking Festival. Thousands flocked to Lyme Regis as the sounds and rhythms of B Sharp’s Busking Festival swung into town in association with the Lyme Regis jazz and blues festival Jazz Jurassica.
May Fete, Lyme Regis
The B Sharp team had a great day at this year’s Anning Rd, May Fete A great community afternoon of family fun! If you would like to book a B Sharp band or musician for your event, fete or festival contact info@bsharp.org.uk.
Lyme Regis Children’s Week
Over the 2018 Easter holidays B Sharp took part in #lymeregischildrensweekat the#marinetheatre – five fun days of activities based on ‘The Beach’. On Friday 6th April, we had fun running Music Making and the Story Boat, 3 action packed music workshops, for different age groups. We LOVED working with Vera the story telling boat to write some really fun rhythms.
The Pick n Mix, Give a Gig
Our Gig on Good Friday March 30th was a great success! Local musicians came together as part of Youth Music’s flagship fundraising initiative in support of music-making projects for children and young people in challenging circumstances!LaunchPad in action
Mr Jean, headline band
Big Mix
B Sharp has produced 4 large scale community youth music festivals – Big Mix. These festivals have been run and delivered by young people working on all aspects of event production, mentored by a team of industry professionals. The Big Mix has showcased a diverse range of professional guest bands and musicians as well as local young talent. The event has been a fantastic success and we believe it developed a positive culture of live public music in a rural seaside community. Keep your eye out for our next large scale community event …
Out of the Box
In 2017 young musicians from B Sharp’s weekly sessions were tasked with creating a low budget musical experience and encouraged to think ‘out of the box’.
What they did was amazing!
B Sharp Party
Showcase of original music created at on-going weekly music sessions in the Lyme Regis, Bridport, Axminster and surrounding areas.
ONE
B Sharp Singing 2016 – we recently completed a high quality, large scale, collaborative programme of singing to engage, progress and inspire.
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info@bsharp.org.uk
07947 334138
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