Innovative and inclusive music and arts in Cumbria and NE

Funders

Youth Music
Early Years Elevated Risk

BlueJam is delivering BabyJam sessions for babies, toddlers and young parents/carers in partnership with Kendal Brewery and Soundwave.

Arts Council Bridge Funding
Creative Futures

Jilly Jarman is delivering a project to explore sustainable work in improvisation as a key musical and developmental skill, working with Yanwath and Bewcastle Primary Schools

Heritage Lottery Fund
Young Roots

BlueJam young people have received funding for a Stone Meets Sky project which explores young people’s responses to the local Neolithic sites and the myths surrounding them.

Cumbria County Council
0-19: Young Songwriters

Summer 2015: BlueJam is starting a new series of Young Songwriter sessions for Year 6 and upwards.

ACE/Cumbria Music Hub
Penrith Music Centre

BlueJam has set up and is running a new music centre for the Eden Valley based at North Lakes Junior School in Penrith. This is a base for our Children’s Orchestra, the North Cumbria Transition Choir and Ensemble and new Youth Jazz and Improvisation programme. BlueJam is delivering these projects in partnership with and with the financial support of Cumbria Music Hub.

Cumberland Building Society
Samba!

BlueJam is setting up taster sessions for young people and their families to encourage them to take part in drumming at local festivals and to join our community samba band – B Jamba.