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In collaboration with Humphry Davy School and the Penzance Pirates, CYMAZ Radio was at the Green is Global 2011 conference at the Eden Project today (12th October). We hope you enjoyed our first live broadcast from the Eden Project today. We highly recommend you listen again as the Pearl Of Africa choir from Uganda were amazing and there was even an interview with an explorer Anthony Jinman. You can listen again here….
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Could you represent Cornwall and a festival in Ireland?

The search is on to find a song to represent Cornwall at the Pan Celtic Festival in Ireland in April 2012. A competition, the Kan rag Kernow, is being held in Cornwlal this autumn to find the winning Cornish song to go to Ireland.

Entries to the Kan rag Kernow competition should be newly composed and are welcomed in any genre of music. All songs must be written and performed in the Cornish language. Free help is available for writing lyrics in Cornish.

For further information and to access an entry form visit www.magakernow.org.uk/kanragkernow

The deadline for entries is 30th September.

Launceston’s Charles Causley Festival celebrates and promotes the best of literature and arts from across the region, showcasing writers, poets, musicians, and performers through a series of talks, book signings, exhibitions, workshops, guided tours, performances and more held across a variety of venues within the historic north Cornish town of Launceston.

This year there will be a Rap Workshop run by the rapper, writer and multi-instrumentalist Dizraeli.   We’d particularly like to encourage young people to take part but the workshop has limited tickets so anyone who is interested needs to get their tickets now. Tickets for the rap workshop are £5 and as well as the workshop, participants can attend or take part in a poetry slam and Dizraeli performance later that evening.

Calling all Singers!  Create and perform the largest musical work ever to be staged at the Eden Project.

Reminder: Application Deadline – Tuesday 15 March 2011.

Follow the link for more information:

Unplugged at The Eden Project

The National Youth Jazz Collective is delighted to launch its National Youth Jazz Summer School 2011, which will be held at the University of East Anglia from 14th August –  21st August 2011.   The focus of the National Youth Jazz Summer School is to develop improvisatory and interactive skills within the context of small group playing, as well as offering a high level of performance experience and professional guidance.   

Tutors for the 2011 summer school include NYJC’s Founder and Artistic Director Issie Barratt, Nic France, Nikki Iles, Mark Lockheart, Liam Noble, Jeremy Price, Nick Smart, Martin Speake and Mike Walker. 

Auditions for the 2011 Summer School will be held in Devon and Cornwall on 2nd and 3rd of April, and are open to young musicians who are aged 14 to 18 and living in England.  

To download more information on applications and auditions, click here.

Please note that the National Youth Jazz Summer School 2011 applications deadline has now been extended to 18th March.

Take Part in a World Premiere!

Create and perform the largest musical work ever to be staged at the Eden Project, written and directed by acclaimed composer Tim Sutton.  Performed across the whole width of the Eden crater by singers, brass and percussion, Unplugged will build a third Biome with sound. 

The music will draw on Cornwall’s folk traditions and the history of the region’s mining industry.  It will speak powerfully of our connection to the environment.  It will be a zero-carbon performance of about half an hour, taking place in daylight hours and using no electro amplification.

If you are committed, enthusiastic and 16 or over, click the following link to an application form with further details (please note that if you under 18, Eden will need to talk to you about supervision requirements for the event).

Download Application Form

The closing date for applications is Tuesday 15th March.

We’re delighted to confirm that, despite the bad weather, our exciting new production, Splanna! is still on at the Hall for Cornwall in Truro tonight.

The performance starts at 7:30 and there are still some tickets available if you haven’t got yours already.

We look forward to seeing you there!

In the lead up to Splanna!, our exciting new production to be performed at the Hall for Cornwall on 30th November, CYMAZ will feature on BBC Radio Cornwall’s Martin Bailie show on Thursday 25th November at 4.30pm.  Tune in to hear our Director, Jane Staffieri, the fabulous bedsit bard Callum Mitchell and musician extraordinaire, Seamas Carey, telling you some background about the making of Splanna! and sneak excerpts from the show!!!  

If you can’t tune in on the radio, you can listen to the programme online at the following link:

CYMAZ on the Martin Bailie Show – Listen Live and Listen Again

You can learn more about Splanna! and book your tickets from the Hall for Cornwall by clicking here

As part of Splanna!, we organised and filmed a flashmob on the Piazza in Truro on Saturday 20th November. The final film will form part of the Splanna! performance on Tuesday 30th November at Hall for Cornwall but you can see a sneak peek here, courtesy of the This is Cornwall website.

Tickets are still available for Splanna! next Tuesday (including free tickets for under 26’s as part of the Arts Council initiative ‘A Night Less Ordinary’) from the Hall for Cornwall so book now if you haven’t already got a ticket.