Steering Group, Music Education Action Zone, Liverpool (2004-2007)
Youth Music Action Zone
YMAZ are a part of Youth Music. Youth Music is the UK’s largest children’s music charity, set up in 1999 to promote and support music making opportunities and to provide advice to children from birth – 18 with the least access, including some of the UK’s most disadvantaged young people. Youth Music works alongside the formal and community-based sectors to support music-making and training.
YMAZs aim to provide music-making activities to 0-18 year olds who might otherwise lack opportunity.
Aims and objectives
Each YMAZ is unique as they are designed to respond to the particular needs of the community they operate in, but they all share the same common objectives:
- To establish a legacy of music-making opportunities in areas of social and economic need.
- Improve the overall standards of music-making across all music styles and genres.
- Champion the value of music-making; proving that music has an invaluable part to play in advancing the educational and social development of young people.
- To establish the value of music-making opportunities as a force for regeneration in communities, fostering social inclusion and community cohesion.
What do Youth Music Action Zones do?
YMAZs deliver a wide range of music-making covering all music styles and genres; from funk to folk, roots to reggae, jazz to junk, classical to choral, garage to gospel. Activities include workshops, rehearsals, performances, one-to-one teaching and mentoring.
