The Musical Career: How Musicians Can Look After Their Mental Health
At Front Row Music, we know that being a musician can be an amazing adventure. It’s a creative profession, it’s exciting and it’s a great opportunity to meet people! But we also know that many musicians struggle with their mental health.
To honour World […]
The Musical Life: How Music Promotes Positive Mental Health and Healing
At Front Row Music, we believe that music has the power to completely transform our lives, including our mental health. To honour Mental Health Awareness Week in coordination with The Lily-Jo Project, this article explores the importance of music to our society and our mental health.
Music and Society: The […]
The Musical Child: How Music Helps Our Children Grow
At Front Row Music, we believe that music has the power to completely transform our lives.
When we teach children how to play a guitar riff or a song on the ukulele, we know that what we are offering them is much more than a […]
Making Music Fun…in Care Homes
At Front Row Music one of our core values is “Giving thanks and giving back”. We feel very privileged to get to inspire young people every day through music and as a business we are also passionate about giving back to our local communities.
This year we got some funding to run a series of workshops […]
How to keep going when you feel frustrated
Who here has ever gotten frustrated at anything? You’ve not yet been able to nail playing that riff. Someone’s annoying you. No matter how many times you’ve tried baking Delia Smith’s foolproof blueberry cake it just won’t rise. I’m over here sticking both of my hands up!
I read a quote recently by Confucius
Announcing: Front Row Music in the Parliamentary Review
We’re really pleased to announce that Front Row Music has been featured in this year’s edition of the Parliamentary Review.
The Parliamentary Review is an independently published series of articles intended to share best practice between industry leaders and policy makers. Specially selected organisations, businesses, schools, cabinet ministers, journalists and so on, are approached to contribute […]
Spotlight: Howard Rose
Welcome to our Spotlight series, where we shine a light on a member of our Front Row family. All of our tutors and franchise owners are working musicians and we’re so lucky that they’re able to swap the stage for the classroom; our students get front row seats to be inspired by their skills and […]
Giving Back: Dementia Action Week
At the end of last half term, some of our Heyes Lane students went and performed at The Musical Memory Café in Altrincham, just outside of Manchester, as part of Dementia Action Week.
They got to show off their rock star skills, joined in with singing some Golden Oldies, and entertained the elderly from the local […]
Spotlight: Andy Hutton
Welcome to another post in our Spotlight series. This is where we shine a light on a member of our Front Row family and see what they’ve been getting up to inside and outside of teaching. All our tutors are working musicians and we’re so lucky that they’re able to swap the stage for the […]