Heist or Hit have announced a new charity partnership with Manchester-based educational organisation Music Evermore, focusing on providing free and subsidised music tuition across the city.
Music Evermore works throughout Manchester offering children and young people access to free and subsidised music education, including workshops, one-to-one instrument tuition, school music classes, and holiday clubs. The organisation aims to make music education accessible to all children regardless of their background.
Heist or Hit's Mick Scholefield, Martin Colclough and Pat Fogarty say, "It's an honour to be involved in helping Music Evermore. As a label made up of former artists, we know how important access is. Access to instruments, access to tuition, access to spaces that allow young people to be creative and make noise. Increasingly, such access sits behind a hypothetical paywall, unlocked by the few that can afford to be artistic. But expression shouldn't be a privilege. Not only does the work of the charity give back to the community of Manchester, but it also helps build the artists of tomorrow. We feel passionately about the work of the Music Venue Trust, and music education represents a vital link in that grassroots pipeline."
