Here’s the chance to get your school on the musical map.
Tap into your students’ talent, and help people in poverty
around the globe – they could even end up playing live at the Leeds Festival or win a Roland drum kit!
Welcome to our new competition – Oxjam: The Big School Gig.
Oxfam has teamed up with NUMU to help give aspiring young music
stars their big break – and raise big money for Oxfam.
We need you - or your students - to organise an Oxjam ‘Battle of
the Bands’-style gig at your school, raising funds for Oxfam. Entrants have to be aged between 5-19, and it’s open to bands, singers,
rappers, soloists, or any other music-related act, playing any style
of music. Each school will choose an act from their gig to progress to a national online round on NUMU. Movers and shakers in the music
industry will then pick the top 10 and a public vote will select the ultimate winner to appear live at Leeds Festival 2009 with 2nd and 3rd places receiving Roland TD Drumkits.
Oxjam: The Big School Gig is ideal for music teachers, but anyone at your school can join in. It can link with an existing event, project, or extended school activity, and works in the curriculum, including
Music KS3 & 4. There are also lots of cross-curricular benefits in
Media, Performing Arts, Citizenship, English, and Business Studies.
You have until 31 March 2009 to hold your fundraising event that will set your stars on the path to success, and more people on the path
out of poverty.
Give your students the chance of a lifetime.
Register now to get free guides and fundraising
resources.
Oxjam is… Oxfam’s music festival with a
difference. Ordinary people put on thousands
of music fundraising events. It’s now the UK’s
biggest festival line-up. Last year 15,000-plus
musicians played in over 1,200 events, raising
more than £250,000 to fight poverty. This year
Oxjam aims to double this figure.
NUMU is… A safe online space for students
to showcase their talents, and develop skills
in music, ICT, literacy and enterprise. Students
create their own web pages, compete in charts
and take part in projects moderated by school
staff. Any school can register for NUMU free
of charge. Click here to join now.
Roland are... supporting The Big School gig with some fantastic prizes for second and third places. Second place will receive
a TD9KX Drumkit for their school and Third place will win a TD9 kit.
Visit the Roland Site for specifications
Email or call us to register or if you would like more information:
0113 246 9989
