Co-op celebration

Charity marks 10 years of working to protect music education

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A CO-OPERATIVE set up to safeguard music education in North Wales has delivered more than 500,000 lessons and celebrated its 10th anniversary with a sell-out concert.

Denbighshire Music Co-operative's gala event at St Asaph Cathedral featured a dazzling programme of youth ensembles, funk and jazz bands, soloists and guest choirs who brought the house down.

The co-operative was formed in 2015 in the aftermath of a financial crisis that saw funding for peripatetic music teachers being axed and two years later a sister organisation was set up in Wrexham. Together they work with pupils from more than 100 primary schools and 18 high schools in the two counties while providing work for 70 freelance music tutors.