This project followed groups of children through from Junior School to Secondary, and was designed to support children's music making through this transition. The groups were selected to reflect a cross-section of the local community, including different cultural backgrounds, abilities and disabilities. Our main criterion for selection was that the children should love music!

During the project the children recorded two CDs
of their own compositions, which also included some remixes by A Man Called Adam. They also performed together at Millfield Theatre in a fantastic show alongside professional musicians A Man Called Adam, Dave Okumu, Bosco de Oliveira, Dudley Phillips and Mike Pickering. A DVD was made of this performance.

Participating Schools:
Hazelbury Juniors
Wilbury School
West Lea School
Aylward

In the secondary phase of the project, we visited the Groove On children and ran workshops with their new classes at
Aylward School
Winchmore School
Chace Community College
Edmonton County
Enfield County
Albany School
Highlands
Bishop Stopford's
The Latymer
Salisbury
Kingsmead
Broomfield

The special event for the final term was a singing and rapping workshop with Ty, Dave Okumu, and Eska Mtungwazi. You can hear some of the excellent singing and rapping from this workshop on the Groove On CD Volume 2.

Groove On Enfield was funded by Youth Music, Corporation of London (Bridge House Trust), Middlesex University, Enfield Arts Support Service and PRSF.

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