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◊ OCCASIONAL DAY COURSES

All year	Cambridge Jazz Festival - Cambridge
Sat 6 Jan 2018 also Sun 10 June	Blow the Dust off your Instrument - Albert Hall, Nottingham Orchestral Day and Recorders Consort - details (pdf)
Oxford 11 Feb 2018 Birmingham 25 Feb Cambridge 8 Apr Bristol 29 April	Flute Feats: Flute Days - Also: Residential Flute Feast in Champagne, France 11-17 May and 20-26 May 2018

◊ RESIDENTIAL COURSES

Year round	Benslow Music Courses, Hitchin - throughout the year Courses for all groups and all standards. July-Dec 2017 Preview
Fri 23 - Sun 25 Feb 2018	Knuston Hall String Course, Wellingborough Apply: 01604 362 200
Mon 30 April - Thur 3 May 2018	Benslow String Orchestra Course, Hitchin Josef Suk's Serenade for Strings in E flat
Sun 12th - Sat 18th August 2018	ELLSO Summer School (strings) - Tonbridge School, Kent Douglas' video from July 2014
July 2018	Annual Sicily Orchestral Course (led by Peter Fender) Scicli, Val di Noto, Sicily - Application form
July and August 2018	Wind Quintet Ensemble Retreat - Parcevall Hall in the Yorkshire Dales
2-5 & 9-12 August 2018	Nantwen Chamber Music Summer School Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
Various dates 13-15 August 2018	Music for Everyone Summer school Univ. of Nottingham School of Music and Lakeside Arts Centre Brass Summer School, Trent College
July - Aug 2018	Cubertou Music/Arts Summer Courses - North of Toulouse Courses for strings, mixed chamber music, wind chamber music
Sat 4 - Sat 11 August 2018	CSSM: Summer School of Music - Uppingham School - Chamber/String/Symphony Orchestra/Wind Emsemble, Choirs
Sat 11 - Sat 18 August 2018	Uppingham Summer School Orchestra Course Symphony Orchestra, String Orchestra, Wind Orchestra
Mon 13 - Wed 15 August 2018	'Music for Everyone' Summer School Trent College, Long Eaton. B&B available

◊ SUPPORT GROUPS, and SUPPLIERS, etc

◊ SOURCES OF FREE MUSIC AND PARTS ON THE WEB:

◊ SOURCES OF COMMERCIAL MUSIC AND PARTS FOR ORCHESTRA:

◊ OTHER LOCAL AMATEUR MUSICAL GROUPS AND ORCHESTRAS

◊ OTHER ORGANISATIONS WITH SYMPATHETIC AIMS:

• UK Amateur Orchestras (map) - we are not alone!!
• Orchestras Live - support for amateur orchestras
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• BBC Music: GET PLAYING - Countrywidei initiative to get eople playing again!
• The Really Terrible Orchestra - inspired by Alexander McCall Smith, Edinburgh
• Blow the Dust off your Instrument - Nottingham (Music for Everyone)
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• The COBWEB ORCHESTRA - 8 groups in North of England
• Do Come and Play Orchestra (DA CAPO) - Padworth, West Berkshire
• East London Late-Starters Orchestras (ELLSO) - Pheonix School, near Stratford
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• SILLARS Orchestra, Norwich
• Yorkshire Late-Starters Strings (YLSS) - Allerton High School, Leeds
• The Jan Modelski Community Orchestra - Chester
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• The Hindhead Symphony Orchestra - Hindhead Music Centre, Hindhead, Surrey
• The Exeter Harmony Orchestra - Music Dept, Exeter School
• Peterborough Community Orchestra - formed January 2018
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• The Seriously Awful Sinfonia - Camelford, Cornwall
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  in USA:
• New York Late-Starters String Orchestra (NYLSO) - Manhattan, NY (Elena Rahona)
• Terrible Adult Chamber Orchestra, Palo Alto - California, USA
• Pretty Shaky String Band - East Lansing, Michigan USA

Updated 24th April 2018