Music for the Many and Peter Sansom

Established in 2018, Music for the Many removes the barriers preventing many of our children, young people and families from accessing instrumental tuition and other musical opportunities. We provide instrumental tuition free of charge on a dazzling array of different instruments to about 150 children in schools in Todmorden and in Halifax. Our current project is to give all our children and young people the amazing and life enriching experience of playing in an orchestra – of being thoroughly immersed in the sounds, emotions, colours and excitement of orchestral music.

Working with the marvellous poet, Peter Sansom, this event is a great opportunity for our young people to explore different ways into music. They will create a new performance in response to poetry, building something truly original in Todmorden’s magical Hippodrome Theatre.

Music for the Many is a registered charity no. 1185526. You can support our life-changing work by donating at www.justgiving. com/musicforthemany or by passing on any instruments which children can use. To find out more or to get involved in what we do, please get in touch at music4themany@gmail.com.

Peter has taken poetry into hundreds of schools over thirty years and read to thousands of children — and got them all writing and performing. He has published many books for grown ups including a Selected Poems, and won the Cholmondeley Award in 2016. His poems for children have appeared in anthologies from Penguin and Hachard and in his own collection The Ice Cream Carpet. He has been company poet for Marks and Spencer and Fellow in Poetry at Leeds and Manchester Universities — and has written poems for, among other places, Channel 4, The Guardian and Morrison’s. He has four grandchildren who like poems, and he lives with his wife Ann in Sheffield, where they run The Poetry Business, a publishers and writer development agency.