Campaign aim:

To encourage music making in communities all over Australia

Community bands, choirs, orchestras, drum circles: the possibilities for making music together are endless.

We are here to help ‘join the dots’, helping to put community music makers in touch with each other to share successes and challenges.

‘Music. Play for Life’ also helps promote community music making by profiling exemplary programs, individuals and places. How? Through this website, our regular e-newsletter, in the pages of ‘Music Forum’ magazine and to local, city and national media.

How you can participate:

  • If you are involved in a community music project in your local area, let us know (email link to tina.mpfl@mca.org.au ).
     
  • Use the ‘Music. Play for Life’ logo on your promotional materials, programs and the like (or use ‘Sing for Life’ if you’re in a choir). Help us spread the word. (download a logo here www.mca.org.au/mpfl/resources.htm
     
  • Request stickers and posters for your music-making friends, colleagues and players. They’re FREE. (click here to tina.mpfl@mca.org.au)
     
  • Contact us for information on how we might be able to help your project, whether you’re in start-up mode or well-established. (contact, click to email message tina.mpfl@mca.org.au)

  • The Music Council of Australia sends out email bulletins each week. You can publicise many aspects of your needs or programs FREE of charge on these bulletins. There is a special section for community music, under CMA or Community Music Australia Bulletins. Also, you can advertise community music employment positions in a section of the Music Employment bulletins.

Click on http://www.mca.org.au/bullhub.htm to submit your info

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

‘Music. Play for Life’ is a campaign that relies on grassroots advocacy by individuals and organisations in communities all over Australia. That means ordinary people with a passion for music-making must talk up the campaign to friends, family and colleagues.

Many organisations are seeing the value in supporting the aims of ‘Music. Play for Life’ be creating collaborations under the campaign banner. Such as:

Mungindi Music Festival

Flying the flag for the campaign is a unique community music festival, to be held over the October long weekend in the small rural town of Mungindi (near the NSW/QLD border). Under the stewardship of Don Burrows and Mark Walton, the festival wants bands, orchestras, choirs and solo performers to descend on Mungindi for a weekend of unbridled music making. If you love the country and you love making music, be there! This festival exemplifies what ‘Music. Play for Life’ is all about.

www.mungindimusicfestival.com

Hunter Region Cancer Council Daffodil Day – ‘Music. Play for Life’ (graphic to be sent under separate cover)

By tagging its 2005 Daffodil Day program with the message ‘Music. Play for Life’ and running a fundraising music concert, Hunter Region Cancer Council is a wonderful example of what can be achieved when organisations join the ‘Play for Life’ campaign. The Council extended its work in raising awareness about cancer by conveying a strong message about the positive effects of music making on health and wellbeing. 

Brisbane City Council – ‘Music. Play for Life’ in the Park (pic under separate cover)

Underused, suburban public parks in Brisbane are becoming venues for performances by local musicians and schoolchildren. Local school bands get a non-competitive performance opportunity and local residents benefit from the great music, too.

Click here (to email link to tina.mpfl@mca.org.au) or call

02 44 54 3887 to find out how YOU can become involved as a ‘Music. Play for Life’ collaborator.

More examples of community music makers

Click on any of the following headings to go to those various sections
 
Some of the community music schools and conservatoriums
Community Music Handbook
Community Music Programs
What is community music?