Young Producers – Ola’s Blog #1

Young Producers is a new project for young people who have taken part in Making Tracks, supported by the Arts Patron Trust. Our second 2 Young Producers are collaborating to put on a gig involving other young people and will be blogging about the process.

The first day on the Young Producers was very enjoyable, I met our manager Lauren and my partner on the project Louisa for the first time. They were both great and we worked really well together.

The morning session was very challenging, there was a lot of information to take in, a few things to sign and we had a discussion about what our vision for the project would be. We decided on a Summer theme, also we wanted to make the event about a celebration of young talent in London.

After settling on a theme, we then brainstormed on what the flyer is going to look like and other ways we could promote the event. Our ideas ranged from posting the flyer on Instagram, creating a Facebook events page, involving other charities that already work with Irene Taylor Trust and releasing a video vine.

In the afternoon, we had a discussion about what type of artists we want to play at the event. we also had to set a plan for the next sessions. In the next session we will be speaking to Alex who is a venue manager, we are hoping he will be able to give us some tips about the challenges of hosting an event and how to make sure that our event is successful.

For the next session, we are looking forward to seeing the draft of our flyer and to record a promotional video to go on the Facebook events page.

Stay tuned for more updates!!!

Sounds of Creativity – Southsiders

Have a listen to the incredible original tracks that Making Tracks Cohort 13 AKA Southsiders recorded at the Community Trust in April.

This project was possible thanks to support from the National Foundation for Youth Music, the Walcot Foundation, the Mercers’ Company Charity, St James’s Place Foundation and the Trusthouse Charitable Foundation.

Don’t say shut up – say STOP IT!

Time Change for Making Tracks at the Community Trust

Join us next month as we take our Making Tracks programme back to South London, working in partnership with the Community Trust for the first time.

This project is possible thanks to support from the National Foundation for Youth Music, the Walcot Foundation, the Mercers’ Company Charity, St James’s Place Foundation and the Trusthouse Charitable Foundation.

We’d love for you to join us to enjoy a performance of original music, written and played by the young people, on Thursday 6th April at 5.30pm.

This is a FREE event, but if you would like to attend, please RSVP to projects@irenetaylortrust.com

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VISITING INFORMATION

Venue: The Community Trust, 21 Aytoun Place, London, SW9 0TE
Nearest stations are;
Stockwell (underground, Victoria Line, Northern Line) – 10 minute walk
Brixton (rail) – 12 minute walk
Brixton (underground, Victoria Line) – 13 minute walk
Loughborough Junction (rail) – 15 minute walk

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Making Tracks gig “powerful and moving”

Huge congratulations to all the young people who took part in the Making Tracks cohort 7 intensive week. 13 made it through to the project performance at St Mark’s, Kennington: Bradley, Che, Daniel, Emmanuel, Kevin, Jody-Ann, Maya, Nathan, Pedro, Perry, Safa, Samuel and Tolani.

The new band wrote four original songs over just four days. The gig also included two tracks by returning Making Tracks alumni Helen and A-Lanskey, who bMaking Tracks drums by Rob Mcelroyoth took part in cohort 6. A-Lanskey performed a moving live lyric over a recorded backing-track, while Helen performed a beautiful song she had written during the week as part of her Arts Award Silver (having achieved an Arts Award Bronze when taking part in cohort 6), accompanied on the piano by Kat. The performance went down a storm at St Mark’s. Here’s a taste of the feedback received from the audience:

“Very powerful and moving lyrics and a great band. Hope to hear you again. Keep up the good work.”

“Loved it! You (participants) showed a lot of courage, I admire that. Amazing how you got the songs together, and right from the heart. It was an uplifting evening.”

“Amazing. Congrats. Keep making music!”

“Fantastic! Professional, exciting, committed and lots of other words too.”

“You were all, every single one of you, captivating and brilliant to watch.”

Making Tracks tweet 1Making Tracks tweet 2                      Special thanks to Helen for returning as a mentor for the intensive week – the project team were greatly impressed by her professionalism and she did a fantastic job supporting the new cohort – and also to St Mark’s for kindly providing the venue for the intensive project and performance.

Following the intensive project, the young people will now have the opportunity to engage in a series of special sessions to further explore music-making and hone their new skills, including an introduction to studio recording, vocal and lyric-writing sessions, and individual instrument lessons. Our project partner is the Prince’s Trust Fairbridge Programme, which provides a range of development opportunities to young people to complement Making Tracks.

You can hear some of the wonderful original music created on previous Making Tracks projects below by clicking on the Soundcloud icon.