HUNDREDS of young musicians from Cumbria and Lancashire will perform at the Music for Youth Regional Festival in Grange next weekend (Saturday, March 24) to be in with the chance of playing the Royal Albert Hall.
More than 400 instrumentalists, singers and dancers, all aged between seven and 21, make up the 19 acts set to appear at Cartmel Priory School as part of a national series of nearly 60 events being held this spring.
The festivals are being laid on by The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and supported by The Kobler Trust and among the talented line-up are a range of school choirs (including Poco Amabile and The Choir from Kendal's Queen Katherine School), ensembles from Cartmel Music Centre and Grange's Amici Singers.
Once the final chords of the series are struck, in Brighton on March 28, more than 40,000 young people will have performed in the world's largest youth music festival. Many will go on to the National Festival of Music for Youth in Birmingham, when up to 300 groups are invited by Music for Youth to perform at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire and the CBSO Centre in July. Finally, 30 of the groups who perform at the National Festival will be invited to play on the stage of the Royal Albert Hall, London, in the world-acclaimed Music for Youth Schools Prom Concerts on November 12-14.
Saturday's event in Grange runs from 10.30am-5.00pm.
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