With violins, violas and simple songs, the children of Glasgow's Govanhill area yesterday performed their first concert as Scotland's second Big Noise youth orchestra.
Children from four schools in the ethnically diverse area of the city, after just 10 weeks of tuition, performed folk songs and musical exercises to delighted parents – and more children across Scotland could soon be part of their own Big Noise.
Richard Holloway, the chairman of Sistema Scotland, the charity that runs the Big Noise orchestras in Raploch, Stirling, and Govanhill, said at least four more locations – Aberdeen, Stranraer, Galashiels and Cumbernauld – were investigating setting up Big Noise orchestras, a scheme based on an intensive musical tuition scheme in Venezuela.
The first Big Noise centre was established in Raploch in 2008 and now works with 450 children from babies to teens, and the Raploch Symphony Orchestra performed on stage yesterday.
The initiative is unearthing considerable talent: earlier this year, 10 children from Raploch, an area usually associated with deprivation, successfully auditioned for the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland.
Yesterday, 400 local children performed in a marquee in Govanhill Park.
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