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| Live Music Now Reaches Out to World Musicians Live Music Now is broadening its remit to enable UK-based world musicians the opportunity to extend their communication and presentation skills and work in a range of community settings in England. The charity has appointed Carlos Chirinos to develop a programme to attract world musicians to its renowned scheme, which provides inspirational live music performances and workshops to people whose circumstances are particularly stressful or challenging. Venezuelan-born Carlos Chirinos (age 33) is Live Music Now's first World Musicians Development Officer. He has worked in the music and culture industry for over 10 years and has a Masters in Ethnomusicology from School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. The appointment will assist Live Music Now to reach out to hundreds of talented musicians from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds, who are now residing in the UK. It will ask them to consider outreach work as a musical career and train those selected to work with an extraordinary range of audiences including the elderly, newly arrived immigrants, young offenders, children with special needs, patients in hospitals and doctors' surgeries and adults with physical and mental disabilities. Carlos said: "The world music initiative at Live Music Now acknowledges the contribution of artists from different cultural backgrounds to the social landscape of today's United Kingdom. The programme is also a step forward in engaging with immigrant and refugee communities, widening the opportunities for community cohesion through an artist-led outreach programme". Carlos will have both informal and formal contact with the musicians, giving them support and advice before they participate in auditions to join the Live Music Now scheme, enabling them to display their full potential as music leaders of the future. Those successful will be able to benefit from Live Music Now's highly regarded training programme and will receive one-to-one mentoring before going out to do music outreach work. Sarah Derbyshire, Chief Executive Director, Live Music Now said: "Live Music Now is aware of the huge demand for high calibre world musicians to perform in a range of community settings – including education, healthcare and the justice system. At the same time, we know that many culturally diverse musicians are missing out on these opportunities. They remain outside the established network of organisations in this field and often face the added hurdles of language, cultural barriers and uncertainty as to how to find professional work. "The joy and inspiration which they can bring to their audiences and participants is enormous. We are delighted to be initiating this pioneering programme which will benefit our understanding and appreciation of today's multi-cultural society." write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |