Recitals for Wrigglers …wake up, breakfast at home, out to a café with mum to meet her NCT friends, shopping in town, snooze in the buggy, trip in the car to pick up big sister from school, tea-time at home, CBeebies on the TV then bed-time with mobile hanging over me until I drift off to sleep… A familiar routine for the majority of pre-school children in Stockbridge I suspect. An average day for a baby will have a soundtrack of background music, be it the radio, canned music in a shop, café or elevator or even the sound of singing. The barrage of sounds and noise is relentless.
Musicians Clea and Louise decided to create something that would not only teach the very young where music comes from but also something that would bring classical music to new listeners.
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It is five years almost to the day when Recitals for Wrigglers made their debut at Stockbridge Library and on Saturday June 29th they are returning to the venue with their programme about Kings and Queens.
Professional violinist and cellist, Clea and Louise have developed a carefully constructed programme which includes some of the most well known classical music, a traditional tale or fable and some familiar nursery rhymes for all to join in with.
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What makes these concerts work so ideally for pre-school children and their carers is that babies and toddlers are able to move around. By being close up to the performers the concert experience becomes something quite different from a traditionally formal classical concert.
Recitals for Wrigglers present these events to bring live classical music to parents and carers as well as children. By delivering music in an informal and approachable way they are showing that classical music is for everyone and isn’t always serious and formal.
11am Saturday June 29th Stockbridge Library
Tickets £4 per head
Buy on the door or book via recitalsforwrigglers.co.uk/shows
