1st February 2012

LYME REGIS: B Sharp launches new project

LYME Regis based youth music group, B Sharp, is launching the second phase of its “Hear Here” project next week with a series of workshops for young people, aged 11 to 19.

The sessions will run weekly on Tuesday evenings from 6.30pm to 8.30pm at Lyme Regis Football Club.

“This is a fantastic new venue for us,” said project leader Fran Williams, “and we are very grateful to the club for accommodating us.”

“Hear Here” is a sound and visual project, based on life in Lyme Regis as young people see and hear it. Mrs Williams added: “This is something completely different from anything we have ever done before and is open for new people to join. You don’t have to be a musician to take part. It’s not every day you get an open invitation to create a piece of music, a dance track, to sing with one of the best vocal teachers around or to make or be in a film for projection.

“This project is open to anybody who wants to get involved in anyway. We are also looking for ‘film stars’ and especially welcome young people who perform tricks, skateboarders, free runners, dancers and gymnasts.”

“Hear Here 2012” is divided into three parts. The first part is sound technology – young people are invited to make recordings on their phones and download an app to create a library of sounds, with music producers Glyn Bush and Ralph Cree, or to make their own and bring it in to be included in the performance.

The second part is to film and collect images for a visual arts show to include large screen projections with “Shhh” promotions, run by visual artist Andy Hawthorne. The final part will be more of the hugely popular singing workshops with vocal coach singer songwriter Sammy Hurden.

Mrs Williams said: “All of these parts will come together for a very unusual installation and performance finale that will be open to the public at a location and in a way that will surprise everybody on Friday, April 27th. Put the date in your diary now!

“2012 is a big year for us. We have so much happening and none of it would be possible without our funders Youth Music, West Dorset District Council and the Lyme Regis Town Council, as well as committee members and fundraisers Ayvin Rogers, Polly Benfield, Jon Bartholomew, Phoebe Hill (who has now stepped down) and B Sharp trainees Dom Kirtley, Ella Hunt, Emma Franklin, Joe Bailey and Jake Perrett.”

For more information contact 07968 177 663, email fran@bsharp.uk.com or visit the website www.bsharp.uk.com

PICTURE: B SHARP is looking for all kinds of young talent, including free runners like Tom Marsh. Photo by Kai Taylor