Old Blowers Music Performance - January 2023

At Greenfield Primary School we are passionate about music and we currently have more than 30 children accessing small group music lessons in school provided by Barnsley Music Services. These lessons are for a range of different instruments: French horn, piano, clarinet, keyboard, violin, guitar and drums. Our Y3/4 children all also receive a block of whole class tuition from Matt Townsend (Barnsley Music Services) for the ukulele. 

On Thursday 26th January, we are looking forward to welcoming The Old Blowers to our school where they will perform a range of pieces and talk about their love of music.   Mrs Wright is especially excited about this visit as Mr Charlie Brammer - the conductor of The Old Blowers - taught her GCSE music at Kingstone Senior School and she played the saxophone in the school band.

The Old Blowers group was established in November 2016. The idea of creating this group was to give members the chance to learn all about the rudiments of music from the absolute beginning. Furthermore, members were given the opportunity to learn to play a brass instrument.

The ethos behind this was to follow up on medical evidence which suggested that learning music or taking up a new language would help to stave off the onset of dementia! The group is 12 strong and are now playing music, an astonishing achievement in such a short space of time.