2. Live Music Now was founded by Yehudi Menuhin and
Founder Chairman Ian Stouzker, with the inspiration
that by embracing the power of music to transform
lives, musicians play a central part in a healthy
society.
Live Music Now operates throughout the UK & Ireland
with two major strategic aims:
• 1 To bring live music of the highest quality to those for
whom access to its benefits is normally restricted.
• 2 To support the professional development of
musicians at the outset of their careers, ensuring the
highest quality of delivery through a rigorous
selection and training process.
3. ‘‘ I can only think of music as something
inherent in every human being - a birthright.
Music co-ordinates mind, body and spirit”
Yehudi Menuhin
4. Listening to live music has a proven impact on
behaviour, health and wellbeing. And yet the people
who need these benefits most are excluded from
involvement in live music through ill health, disability,
isolation or poverty.
Young musicians have enormous potential, as they
start out on their professional musical lives, to
develop skills for creative, participatory performance
which touches the heart and generates a powerful,
therapeutic response in audiences and participants.
Live Music Now works to bring these groups together
to change lives.
5. Facts and Figures
• 3,000+ Workshops and Interactive Performances
• 330 musicians performing with LMN at any one time
• 51 training sessions for LMN musicians
• 109 training sessions for outside bodies
• 100+ volunteers
• 6UK cities hosting auditions
• 16 0,000 total audience and participants
6. Areas of Need
• Special Educational Needs
• Wellbeing
• Justice System
• Early Years
7. Special Educational Needs
38% of our work
80,000 adults and
children in education
and support settings
One third of our work
provides SEN children
with intensive, hands-
on music making
LMN performs regularly
in 302 special schools
8. Wellbeing
37%of our work
40,000 people in day,
residential and hospital
care
One third of the work
supports people living
with dementia and their
carers
LMN is delivering
programmes in 75% of
central London NHS
hospitals, on wards and in
public areas
We deliver regular music
programmes in care
homes throughout the UK
9. Justice System
Intensive, regular
delivery in 10 prison
settings
• Training programmes
involving prison staff
alongside musicians and
workshop leaders
• Accredited PEETA
programme supports
positive life chances for
young offenders
• Research underway with
University of Western
England into the long
term effects of music on
rates of re-offending.
10. Early Years
11%of our work 5,000
young children and
their families
• Engaging hard to
reach families in non-
educational settings
• Flagship projects in
Scotland and
Yorkshire are
demonstrating the
benefits of regular
participatory music
activities for under-
fives
• Training and resource
packs ensure
sustainability
11. Personal Stories
I really enjoyed the music today because I was
actually doing it myself, rather than just
listening. I find that so many things are done
for me now and it was great to take control
and do what I wanted to do. Mrs D
12. Personal Stories
This class has enabled me to use other qualities in me that I can use in
‘Employment Environment’, helping other colleagues to achieve their
results and also myself. I am going to do more to be able to achieve higher
standards in my learning and working with other people, giving and taking
instructions. I aspire to do greater things which I will pursue…
Prisoner participant
14. Traditional English Music
Folk music of England is a type of traditionally
based music, often contrasted with courtly,
classical and later commercial music, for
which evidence exists from the later medieval
period. It has been preserved and transmitted
orally, through print and later through
recordings.
15. Traditional English Music
The term is used to refer to English traditional
music and music composed, or delivered, in a
traditional style. English folk music has
produced or contributed to several important
musical genres, including sea shanties, jigs,
hornpipes and dance music, such as that used
for Morris dancing.
16. SOME
• We hope to meet lots of nice new partners, to
gain new experiences, knowledge and make
new friends
• We also hope to share knowledge on
traditional English music and share our
expertise in the area of community music
