Member Article

New training programme first step to music business success

Young people from across the Tees area are being given an opportunity to find out what it is like to work in the music business. Tees Music Alliance, with financial backing of the National Lottery’s Awards for All scheme, has developed a specialist training programme, designed to give young people work experience in many aspects of the music business.

The opportunities for a successful, long-term career in music are many and varied, and the organisers believe this training programme could be the first step on this particular career ladder for local young people.

Young people 16-24 years of age with a genuine interest in music will benefit from working, on a voluntary basis, in a wide range of activities from administration, promotion, sound engineering, event management and many more. The participants on the course will work with the Tees Music Alliance, which is responsible for many locally music based projects including The Georgian Theatre, Green Dragon Studios and Stockton Riverside Fringe Festival.

Paul Burns, Director of TMA, said: “This training programme is one of a number of projects and events organized by Tees Music Alliance which are aimed at developing the music business in Teesside and giving local people an opportunity to get involved in the industry and possibly making a living from it.”

The next intake of young people onto the course takes place in May and anyone in the 16-24 age range who is keen on music, dedicated, reliable, and prepared to work non-standard hours should contact Paula Taylor at Tees Music Alliance on 01642 633817 or e-mail paula@teesmusicalliance.or.uk.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .