Wales ready for Olympic countdown

24-Feb-2012
Wales will be counting down the musical bars to the start of the Olympic Games in London.

The first nationwide countdown event for the 2012 Olympic Games will be held next weekend in Wales.

Events

The BBC and LOCOG will present Music Nation in Wales, a spectacular weekend of live music under the banner of Music Nation Cymru, which will see events hosted by Welsh National Opera and the National Cymanfa Ganu, led by Making Music Wales and Ty Cerdd, where people across Wales can perform traditional Welsh music together.

This music is available free to download from www.makingmusicwales.org.uk and full brass band scores are included.

'Bands can join in the massed performance at the Wales Millennium Centre, or can invite their local community to join a performance of their own'

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Massed performances

Bands can join in the massed performance at the Wales Millennium Centre, or can invite their local community to join a performance of their own on the weekend 3rd/4th March.

There are a host of exciting initiatives with active brass band participation being hosted in Wales throughout 2012, including the ‘Making Music Overture’ by Orlando Gough, and the ‘Music Marathon’.

Further information

For further information about Music Nation Cymru please visit: http://www.makingmusicwales.org.uk/music-nation-cymru.html