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This project was delivered with a community youth choir in Bedford and three groups of teenage asylum seekers in Folkestone and Canterbury.
One group was of young people between eight to fifteen years who met over two sessions to discuss what gives them joy. They then created lyrics to a song they called “The joyful sound of music” and practiced using percussion instruments and that then culminated in a performance to parents, friends and members of the youth group, and the young people were delighted with their performance and said that the project helped a lot with their self esteem.
In Folkestone and Canterbury the group was made up of boys/young men aged between 13 and 18 years where they got experiences of playing on mini steel pans as way of expressing themselves. For all of them it was a novel experience of playing an instrument which they had never encountered before but one they found they connected with and even though they had very limited commend of the English language using the “call and response” format helped them to create and perform a piece about they Joy they found using music as a way of coping with their emotions.
