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As promised, here is the link for Monday’s broadcast on The Source FM, featuring an interview with our Radio Station Manager, Moss, and a few of our CYMAZ Radio recordings from the Port Eliot Festival over the weekend.

Inside Local Music on The Source FM – Monday 26th July 2010

We are currently compiling highlights programmes from the weekend, so keep an eye out for them over the next few days on the Radio Podcast page on this website and our CYMAZ Radio Facebook page.

The CYMAZ team have just got back from the Port Eliot Festival today after a wonderful weekend of music, fun and sun (and a bit of rain too!)   The young artists who performed at the Twenty Five Tent were all fantastic and we got hours and hours of great performance and interview recordings from them.  We’ll be adding these to our CYMAZ Radio Facebook page over the next few days so please go there and have a listen and give all these talented young guys the recognition they deserve.  If you like what you hear (which you almost certainly will!), please give young people’s music in Cornwall your support by joining our group.

CYMAZ Radio has also just featured on The Source FM radio station this evening, with lots of content from the Port Eliot Festival.   If you missed the broadcast, we’ll be posting the ‘Listen Again’ link for you later in the week when they upload it to their website so you can hear it then.

CYMAZ is delighted to be working with Rogue Theatre at the Port Eliot Festival this weekend, running the Green Room by the 25 Tent.    We’d love you to drop in and say Hi if you are at the festival; if not we aim to post regular festival updates on the website and CYMAZ Radio Facebook page over the weekend.

As all our staff will be at Port Eliot it means that there will be no-one in the CYMAZ offices from Thursday 22nd to Monday 26th July inclusive.   Please feel free to e-mail us or leave a message on the answermachine and we’ll deal with it as soon as we get back.   In the case of an emergency you’ll be able to get hold of the team on 07791 744718.

CYMAZ is delighted to be working with Rogue Theatre again at the Port Eliot Festival  between 23^rd and 25^th July this year, managing the Green Room for the 25 Tent.  

In case you don’t know, ‘25’ is a place to showcase the rich and diverse talent of young people in Cornwall up to the age of 25.  The Green Room will be a space for the young performers to relax, network, receive music industry advice, sign up to and create content for CYMAZ Radio.  

The festival is providing CYMAZ with the opportunity to launch CYMAZ Radio and the Young People’s Music and Radio Network in Cornwall and we will be creating a radio show on each day of the festival.  To get a taste of what goes on in the 25 Tent, click here to go to our Radio Podcast page and listen to the radio programme that we made at Port Eliot last year.

Tickets are still available for The Hoosiers @ Livewire on 18th July 2010 – They are bouncing back with a single in the top 10 and the new album getting great reviews, see them up close and personal or take your chances when they tour their new album in much bigger venues. Buy tickets for THE HOOSIERS from www.Seetickets.com

Wanna DJ at Underage Festival 2010?

If you’re a DJ, Producer or Remixer aged 14-18, Youth Music is offering you the chance to DJ live on stage at the Underage Festival!

How to enter:

STEP 1: Download the track from the Youth Music site link below
STEP 2: Create your own remix
STEP 3: Upload your work of genius

A panel of experts will shortlist the best entries and winners will receive the full VIP treatment, getting the chance to share the Underage Festival stage with top headline acts on August 1, 2010.

Visit www.youthmusic.org.uk/underage to find out more.

In an exciting new venture, South West Music School is now managing the Dartington Summer Youth Programme.   This year the programme has moved to the University of Exeter campus where not only is international quality tuition offered but now for the first time accommodation is available to enable more young people from around the UK be able to participate.

Courses include Chamber Music, Gospel Choir, Piano Masterclasses, Songwriting, Folk Music, Jazz, Music Theatre and Composition.  These courses also range from first access to advanced levels and are open to young people from 11 – 18 years old.  

For more information please visit the website www.dsyp.org

Young Composers’ Competition

Now in its twelfth year, the prestigious BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers’ Competition gives young composers aged 12-18 a chance to get their music heard by a wider audience. Young composers will need to enter their own, original piece of music – no more than five minutes long – to the BBC Proms judging panel, who’ll choose the winning compositions, which are then performed at the Young Composers’ Concert during the BBC Proms season and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

If they win, they’ll also receive a commission to be performed and recorded by BBC musicians at the 2010 Inspire events, and get to work with top composers and musicians in a series of workshops to develop thier commission. Last years winners were commissioned to write for the last night of the Proms!

Anyone who enters the Young Composers’ Competition or attends a lab can attend Inspire Day, a day of workshops that will challenge and inspire them to compose in ways they’d never thought of, in London on 2 August 2010.

BBC Proms Composer Labs

As part of the scheme, we offer composer labs throughout the UK. These labs help young people meet other composers, share ideas and discover new ones, develop a deeper understanding on how to use use rhythm, harmony, melody and form and how to make them their own.

Composer Labs are a unique chance to join professional musicians from the UK’s top orchestras and the BBC Singers, top composers and the BBC Proms team in a day of music making, exploration and discovery.

Labs will be held at locations around the UK between February and April.

Composer Lab Date in Cornwall 

Truro High School for Girls, Falmouth Road, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2HU
14 March 2010, 10.30am to 4.30pm
In partnership with the BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers

How to get involved

All you need to do is contact promslearning@bbc.co.uk or call 020 7765
5575 or visit www. bbc.co.uk/proms if you would like to attend any of the Labs.

How to enter the Young Composers’ Competition

Send in two musical scores of your composition, along with two CD recordings and an entry form to:
BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers’ Competition,
14 Lakeside, PO BOX 105,
Rochester, Kent ME2 4BE.

Entry forms are available from bbc.co.uk/proms, by calling 020 7765 5575 or emailing promslearning@bbc.co.uk

The closing date for entries is 28 May 2010. Any entries received after this date will not be entered in the competition.

The next CYMAZ Annual General Meeting will be held at 7:30pm on Wednesday 13th January 2010 at Trelander and St Clements Community Hall, Trelander Highway, TruroTR1 1PG.

The AGM is open to all members of the community who have an interest in the activities of CYMAZ and further details can be obtained by contacting us on 01872 270074 or e-mailing us at robin.leah@cymaz.co.uk

Last week was Youth Music Week and CYMAZ’s contributions to this nationwide celebration of young people’s music making were a resounding success.

On Thursday 12th November, nearly 30 young people got involved in our free music workshop at The House in St Austell and our spectacular Showcase Talent Gig at the Livewire Youth Project in Saltash on Saturday 14th attracted an audience of well over 200!  Both events were well covered in the local press, which certainly helped the high attendance figures.

We’d like to offer our thanks to all those involved who made both evenings so memorable:  Andy Rance and the crew at Livewire, Jamie Crowe, Roger Luxton, all the guys at The House, Youth Music (especially for providing those exceptionally cool torches!), Young Promoters, all the superb performers and everyone who came along and enjoyed themselves.