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MUSIC: Thank you for the music

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Simon Kensdale believes music collectives deliver activities that young people really want and make inter-agency partnerships much easier.

The event would attract large numbers of young people and would be co-ordinated by the young musicians themselves. And it would offer something young people in the Sefton area of Merseyside didn't experience very often: the chance to hear live music in the company of their peers.

I was looking at whether youth service provision could serve as a vehicle for arts work, and I needed a means of delivering music. I was able to chisel off a piece of the budget usually used to hire camp sites to pay for the studio time and we went ahead. The event sold out, with 200 people attending. Everyone had a wild time.

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