Cobweb Orchestra Community Fun Day

Spend a day (or as much of it as you want) with the Cobweb Orchestra at Middlesbrough Town Hall.

Funded by Platform (promoting Classical Music in the Tees Valley) and in partnership with Middlesbrough Town Hall, the orchestra is running a Community Music Day and, taking their “everyone can join the Cobweb Orchestra” motto at face value, they will start by presenting a Beginners Session which will be open to anyone who has an orchestral instrument and can play half a dozen notes on it. Rusty players who have not played for a while will be made welcome too, and it’s always good to have a few more experienced players who feel like brushing up on some of the basics.  

Then there will be a free Lunchtime Symphony Concert of short, unrehearsed pieces open to anyone who wants to play, or to wander in off the streets and listen. The repertoire will include Gospel songs and Beatles classics so that people who can’t play an instrument but enjoy singing can get involved too.

In the afternoon, the Instrument Making Workshop will give people of all ages the chance to make and play simple instruments which will be used later in the Family Concert which concludes the day’s activities.

During the day, there will be opportunities to play alongside professional musicians including members of Northern Sinfonia, who have supported the orchestra since it began 13 years ago.
So if you are interested in orchestral music as a player or a listener, there will be plenty to interest you. All the events are either very reasonably priced or free.