Archive for May, 2010

AYMC is very excited to be part of this year’s APRA / AMCOS Song Summit on June 20.  It’s a huge festival with workshops, speakers, performances, a music market and plenty of information and inspiration for budding songwriters and composers.

Music. Count Us In, for those that don’t know, is a massive school music campaign in Australia, which culminates in almost half a million school students sing the same song at the same time on the same day! It’s happening again in 2010, and the big day is September 2nd.

This year the song was written by young people from different schools, and recorded entirely by students.

Lead vocalist on the John Foreman-produced track, Come Play Your Part, is 15 year old Bobby Andonov, from Williamstown High School in Melbourne. Bobby has been singing and dancing since the age of 6. He’s a student of renowned vocal coach, Susie Ahern (Kylie Minogue, Guy Sebastian and Anthony Callea) and he’s through to the finals of the latest series of ‘Australia’s Got Talent’ on channel 7. Listen and register your school.

As well as the program song, Come Play Your Part, there are two extra songs this year.  Find out more about the songs and the students who wrote and recorded them or watch the “making of” doco on this year’s Music. Count Us In songs:

Emma Ayres from ABC Classic FM is looking for recordings of school music groups – this looks like an open invitation to get some exposure if you have a great music program, orchestra, choir or chamber group.

In an ever growing digital environment, where the spread of recorded music has moved from scarcity to ubiquity, young musicians and music professionals are faced with a situation that looks vastly different to that experienced by previous generations.

12 August 2010: International Youth Day (Theme: Dialogue and Mutual Understanding)
The UN General Assembly on 17 December 1999, in its resolution 54/120, endorsed the recommendation made by the World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth (Lisbon, 8-12 August 1998) that 12 August be declared International Youth Day.