The Glasgow Barons, in partnership with Glasgow CREATE, have instigated a year of Baby Strings, the council initiative for delivering weekly whole class string lessons for P1-5, to Riverside Primary in Govan. They share a campus with St Saviours, who started Baby Strings through us last year. We pay for the lessons and bring in our resident string quartet, The Four Barons, to show pupils all instruments together. At the end of the academic year, both schools get a final side by side concert with Glasgow Barons players, including hits selected by the pupils of each class, played by us (e.g. George Ezra’s Shotgun). We’ll also bring together the school choirs and Hazelwood school for pupils with complex learning needs for two mass choir events: The Govan Winter Gathering in December, and Govan Music Festival in March. Over the year, we work with each school to fill specific gaps in provision and raise the bar across the area, building sustained ability for more ambitious future projects. Our 19 piece street orchestra will visit every Govan school for a fourth time since 2020.
Read an article on our Baby Strings initiative in The Strad here.