News location:

Canberra Today 13°/16° | Saturday, March 30, 2024 | Digital Edition | Crossword & Sudoku

Arts / 3000 schools gather for ‘One Song’

School pupils in ‘Music Count us in’

SCHOOLS from Queanbeyan, Braidwood, Bungendore, Sutton, Gundaroo and the region will be among more than 3000 schools in the country taking part in Australia’s largest free school music participation program, “Music Count Us In”.

The initiative, which kicked off today (November 1), has been growing steadily since 2007. Every year students take part, learning the song in the lead up to “Celebration Day”, which sees students all around the country sing the same song, written by students, on the same day, at the same time.

TV identity Justine Clark is this year’s program mentor. Earlier this year she joined five talented student songwriters from around the country, who came together to write this year’s Music Count Us song, “One Song”.

The workshop took place at Sydney’s Golden Retriever recording studio along with program ambassador John Foreman, who offered expert guidance to the students.

Readers can listen to “One Song” at: musicaustralia.org.au/program/countusin/the-song/2018-program-song/

Who can be trusted?

In a world of spin and confusion, there’s never been a more important time to support independent journalism in Canberra.

If you trust our work online and want to enforce the power of independent voices, I invite you to make a small contribution.

Every dollar of support is invested back into our journalism to help keep citynews.com.au strong and free.

Become a supporter

Thank you,

Ian Meikle, editor

Helen Musa

Helen Musa

Share this

Leave a Reply

Related Posts

Music

Cunio takes top job at NZ School of Music

Immediate past head of the ANU School of Music, Kim Cunio, is to become head of school at Te Kōki, the NZ School of Music, part of the Victoria University of Wellington, reports HELEN MUSA.

Follow us on Instagram @canberracitynews