Aleksey

“I’m 12 and I’m home schooled. I love the music the accordion makes and it’s easy to carry. It’s an orchestra in a bag!” – Aleksey

Sarah – P2

“Music education is so important because it teaches you another code. It’s like another language that you’re learning and that’s amazing weightlifting for your brain. Then it also teaches you a code for how to be as a human as well! I’ve seen shy people come right out of their shell and be able to […]

Sarah Hickman – P1

“When I first started playing music as a youngster, I was very much a music-reading machine. It was a technical exercise, of knowing the code; what the symbols meant. I remember when I was about 15, we got stuck in a snowstorm, and we had to sleep in a shearing shed. One of my dad’s […]

Matt and Robbie

I just enjoy doing the band; it’s my creative outlet aye. We’ve all got day jobs so we don’t play that many gigs, so we look forward to each one. It’s really hit home how important playing music is for us; just the great thing that we have, and how really lucky we are. We are super important to one another.

Jesse

“I don’t sing in the shower I sing in the truck. I drive for Bidfood. I’m loving being in the truck, meeting people face-to-face, traveling all around Canterbury, I just love driving. It means I can have the radio on and sing to my heart’s content! Singing keeps me going. If I’m having a low […]

Jack

“In my teenage years I was heavy into the party scene. I was right into that life but now I am almost 10 months clean and sober and in recovery. I rap, produce music and also sing. I am basically a multi-talented musician and I love what I do. One of the things I am […]