National Music Week - 16 October 2006

[Dave]

Thanks to the links provided by Drew in the first All Angels thread, we now know a lot more detail about the group and the reason for all this week's publicity. It is the launch week for National Music week and All Angels will be an integral part of it, with other acts. Therefore, we think this deserves a thread of its own and I'll start it with a background article first published on Tuesday this week - the day of the launch concert at which we think All Angels sang 'Songbird' and Hayley was also present.

Music Week

National Music Week acts unveiled
12 September 2006 - 10:50:15

Matt Willis, Lil’ Chris and Soweto Kinch were among the artists unveiled this morning as forming the centrepiece project of National Music Week, designed to encourage children across the country to experience different genres of music.

The campaign is dubbed My Music and is being billed as a “Mercury Prize for kids”. Organisers have selected singles from ten acts ranging across pop, rock, folk, classical, jazz and R&B and will ask 1.3m secondary school children to pick their favourite. Those choices will form the first ever Schools Top 10, which will be announced on October 31.

The aim is that through discussion of the acts in schools, children will be encouraged to appreciate and understand a broader cross section of musical genres. The acts were unveiled on stage this morning in Pimlico School, a comprehensive renowned for its visual and performing arts education.

The project is being organised by the BPI, ERA and the Music Manifesto. BPI chairman Peter Jamieson says, “To date most music education in schools has focused on teaching children to play instruments. National Music Week is about exposing young people to a broad range of music and helping them to improve their listening skills.”

The full list of acts and songs is:

All Angels – Songbird
Betty Curse – Girl With Yellow Hair
Keisha White – Just Don’t Understand
Lil’ Chris – Get Delirious
Matt Willis – Ex-Girlfriend
Mr Skillz & His Crazy Skills – I Know You Like Me
Natasha Marsh – The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Seth Lakeman – Kitty Jay
Soweto Kinch – Old Skoolish
Trinity Stone – Ayo!

Please post further messages about All Angels involvement in National Music Week and "My Music" (the Mercury prize for kids!) in this thread, thanks.

Here is the National Music Week Website (thanks to Drew).

Cheers, Dave

[roger]

From the BBC website...

'Mercury Prize for kids' launched


The British recording industry has launched a "Mercury Prize for kids" in secondary schools across the UK.
The competition is part of National Music Week, a joint initiative between the government and the music industry to improve music education in schools.

Pupils will choose between 10 British artists from a variety of genres to decide the winner of the prize.

The result will be announced on 31 October, following National Music Week, which runs from 16-20 October.

Musician Myleene Klass launched the
prize in Pimlico, London

Artists in competition for the award include former Busted star Matt Willis, soprano Natasha Marsh and folk singer Seth Lakeman.

The shortlist also features jazz musician Soweto Kinch, R&B trio Trinity Stone and star of the TV programme Rock School, L'il Chris.

Rounding off the list are 19-year-old rock singer Betty Curse, R&B star Keisha White, rapper Mr Skillz and classical vocal group All Angels.

"The quality and diversity of the acts unveiled today just goes to show how much young talent there is in the country," said musician Myleene Klass, launching the competition.

Free music

More than 1,700 secondary schools in England have already signed up for National Music Week.

They will be supplied with teaching material to help pupils enhance their appreciation of music, and to understand the workings of the recording industry.

Pupils will also receive a token, which they can exchange for a download or CD by one of the artists on the My Music prize shortlist.

Their choice will be counted as a vote for that artist, with the Cfficial UK Chart Company compiling a "schools' top 10" to decide the overall winner.

"To date most music education in schools has focused on teaching children to play instruments," said Peter Jamieson, chairman of the British Phonographic Industry.

"National Music Week is about exposing young people to a broad range of music and helping them to improve their listening skills."

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Roger

[roger]

This comes from PR inside, part of World Entertainment News Network...

MERCURY PRIZE FOR KIDS

Movie & Entertainment News provided by World Entertainment News Network (www.wenn.com)
2006-09-12 18:37:52 -


The British recording industry has launched another Mercury Prize to be judged by kids, as part of the UK's National Music Week (16-20CT06).

The competition will give secondary school students the chance to choose between 10 different British artists before deciding who should win the prize.

Competition artists include former BUSTED star MATT WILLIS, R&B star KEISHA WHITE and classical vocal group ALL ANGELS.

Musician-turned-TV presenter MYLEENE KLASS launched the competition, results of which will be announced next month (31OCT06).

She says, "The quality and diversity of the acts unveiled today just goes to show how much young talent there is in the country."

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Roger

[roger]

And from Ulster Television's Newsroom...

Schools music list launched

Pop star Myleene Klass has launched the shortlist for the first "Schools Top 10" singles, as part of a drive to encourage children to listen to different types of music.

The My Music scheme will allow 1.3 million secondary school pupils to choose their favourite track from a selection of jazz, pop, rap, classical, folk, rock and R&B songs.

Among the artists competing for the top spot are the star of Channel 4`s Rock School, Lil` Chris, former Busted band member Matt Willis and former Big Brovaz star Mr Skillz.

Students will be given free vouchers to exchange for the track they like best as part of National Music Week, which runs from October 16-20.

The Government-supported project also aims to encourage schools and pupils to explore more about the artists, their genres and the industry.

Teen girl group All Angels, rocker Betty Curse, R&B singer Keisha White, soprano Natasha Marsh, folk singer Seth Lakeman, jazz musician Soweto Kinch and trio Trinity Stone make up the rest of the Top 10 finalists drawn from Britain`s new music talent.

At the scheme`s launch at Pimlico School in south-west London today, Klass said My Music was "an opportunity for kids to discover certain genres of music they might not otherwise experience".

"In the culture we live it is always all around and we`re subliminally being force-fed very specific kinds of music," the classically trained former Hear`Say star said.

She said the scheme would allow children to explore other styles of music and know what was out there.

"It`s not telling kids what they should be listening to - they"re going to be telling us, that`s a far better way of looking at it."

She added: "There`s a lot of very new artists who need to be recognised. In the situation now, where it`s all X Factor and reality shows, it`s very difficult for new artists to get their music out there and produce what they want to."

She said the scheme would give talented new artists a fresh outlet.

Lil` Chris, 16, said it meant a lot to him to be involved in the My Music event.

"I think it`s really good - it gets the music out there and a lot of people are going to get involved," he said.

Ex-Busted star Willis said: "This is a really good project to be in. I think it`s going to teach kids a lot as they`ll get to know how the record industry works and how you produce records."

The Schools Top 10 is a joint initiative between the Government`s Music Manifesto, which aims to improve music education at school level, the Entertainment Retailers` Association and the British recorded music industry (BPI).

More than 1,700 secondary schools in England have already joined the scheme.

Speaking at the launch today, Entertainment Retailers` Association chairman and managing director of HMV UK and Ireland, Steve Knott, said: "The schools singles chart is a great way to help students discover music that they might not have otherwise been exposed to. That is exactly what National Music Week is all about."

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Roger

[Andrew]

roger said:

From the BBC website...

'Mercury Prize for kids' launched


The British recording industry has launched a "Mercury Prize for kids" in secondary schools across the UK.
The competition is part of National Music Week, a joint initiative between the government and the music industry to improve music education in schools.

Pupils will choose between 10 British artists from a variety of genres to decide the winner of the prize.

The result will be announced on 31 October, following National Music Week, which runs from 16-20 October.

Musician Myleene Klass launched the
prize in Pimlico, London

Artists in competition for the award include former Busted star Matt Willis, soprano Natasha Marsh and folk singer Seth Lakeman.

The shortlist also features jazz musician Soweto Kinch, R&B trio Trinity Stone and star of the TV programme Rock School, L'il Chris.

Rounding off the list are 19-year-old rock singer Betty Curse, R&B star Keisha White, rapper Mr Skillz and classical vocal group All Angels.

"The quality and diversity of the acts unveiled today just goes to show how much young talent there is in the country," said musician Myleene Klass, launching the competition.

Free music

More than 1,700 secondary schools in England have already signed up for National Music Week.

They will be supplied with teaching material to help pupils enhance their appreciation of music, and to understand the workings of the recording industry.

Pupils will also receive a token, which they can exchange for a download or CD by one of the artists on the My Music prize shortlist.

Their choice will be counted as a vote for that artist, with the Cfficial UK Chart Company compiling a "schools' top 10" to decide the overall winner.

"To date most music education in schools has focused on teaching children to play instruments," said Peter Jamieson, chairman of the British Phonographic Industry.

"National Music Week is about exposing young people to a broad range of music and helping them to improve their listening skills."

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Roger

Hi Roger,

I wonder why Myleene Class is making the 'Il Cornuto' sign with her hand? Some people don't really know what this sign means and blindly think it just means "rock n' roll". I wonder if she really knows what that sign means? Some people don't take the meaning seriously. In reality there's more to it though.

Regards,

Andrew

[Dave]

Here is the latest news about National Music Week.

From Music Week

National Music Week to expand remit
18 September 2006 - 11:50:24

The organisers of National Music Week are hoping to build the school-based event into a wide ranging initiative designed to re-engage the public with the music industry.

Up to 2m secondary school children in England will take part in the first National Music Week, which takes place from October 16-20. Its centrepiece is My Music, a campaign which sees kids asked to listen to 10 varied artists as an educational exercise intended to help them appreciate musical genres.

The pupils will then be asked to select their favourites and this information will be used to create the first Schools Top 10, compiled by Official UK Charts Company and unveiled on October 31.

The campaign, which is organised by the BPI, Era and the government-sponsored Music Manifesto, is intended to have both direct and long-term benefits for the music industry, by educating participants about its work.

While the first National Music Week is limited to secondary schools in England, Era chairman Steve Knott says that the event could eventually play a role similar to that of the now-defunct National Music Day.

“As its name implies, we are ultimately looking to create a national event that will engage the interest and participation of the wider community,” he says. “Schools, however, are a great place to start, particularly if we can encourage greater appreciation of music across all genres among the key teen audience.

“We’ve had a great response to the campaign so far, and our aim now is to deliver a really successful event next month.”

BPI director of communications and development Steve Redmond, who sits on the National Music Week steering committee, explains that external sponsorship could prove vital to helping the initiative to expand in the future. “Since the news of the event came out we have been approached by sponsors and it is only timing that has prevented it from happening,” he says. “In the future that will form part of it.”

Students at participating schools will receive vouchers that can be redeemed in shops for CDs featuring new and emerging pop acts, such as Matt Willis and Mr Skillz & His Crazy Girls, to classical music from Natasha Marsh, folk from Seth Lakeman, jazz from Soweto Kinch and R&B from Keisha White. The other artists featured are Lil’ Chris, Trinity Stone, Betty Curse and All Angels.

London-based manufacturer Clear Sound And Vision has produced 50,000 copies of each single and Universal is handling the distribution.

copied from the AAI forum

Dave