With support from the British Mexican Society, a collaboration between Mexico based PRISMA and Live Music Now Scotland resulted in inviting one musician from LMNS to do a residency in Mexico this autumn. Following an open call to LMNS violinists, fiddler Roo Geddes was successful in his application.
During his time in Mexico, Roo delivered workshops and a diverse range of performances to children in schools and orphanages in remote areas, as well as to local communities that normally wouldn’t have access to live music. PRISMA shared a wonderful reel on their social media: https://www.facebook.com/livemusicnowscotland/videos/1287107175333787
About PRISMA
PRISMA began very small-scale, with guitarist Morgan Szymanski, an alumnus of Live Music Now, being the organisation’s only musician. When returning to Mexico in the late 90s, Morgan missed working with LMN and when discovering that no such scheme existed in his country, he started PRISMA, based on the model of LMN, and with great support from LMNS Director Carol Main.
Morgan Szymanski was delivering all the workshops himself, often in remote areas where access to live music is rare. But his work in schools caught the attention of the Mexican Government and the programme expanded exponentially, and to date over 17,000 children have attended PRISMA workshops.
