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"loved every minute of it... I am grateful to Marcella for the opportunity to provide my boy with this valuable experience."
- Amy
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A video of Music Shakers participants and founder Marcella Erskine by producer/director Nicola Silk is released in July 2011.
The second Music Shakers CD "Song Birds and Rhyming Words" was released in 2011 and is available at eTunes, ITunes, Napster, Spotify, Tunetribe and Play.com.
Babies are predisposed to dance and respond better to music than to speech according to research by Dr Tuomas Eerola.
Our fifth year Anniversary Party on 20 March 2010 was a big success with 120 people showing up to celebrate.
Marcella Erskine and Sarah Baker released the first Music Shakers CD "Winter Chimes & Animal Rhymes".
Marcella presents music workshops and a plenary talk at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Preschool Learning Alliance.
Marcella Erskine meets Rt. Hon. Ed Balls, Secretary of State Children, Schools and Families, on 5 February 2009 to discuss education policies and plans.
Marcella Erskine led a workshop for Playtrain in Birmingham on inclusive music practice, participants described it as "enthusiastic", "inspiring" and "entertaining".
Music Shakers was reviewed by Amy Watson in the Moseley News.
Marcella Erskine led an exploration of Fairtrade, writing and creating music with children at Chad Vale Primary School in February 2008.
Marcella Erskine led Music Shakers "Slavery and Freedom" workshops to libraries in Perry Common, Yardley Wood, Kings Norton and Aston as part of the series "A Shared History, A Shared Future", celebrating 200 years since the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
The UK government publishes Music Manifesto, a new initiative to increase involvement of young children in music, with its two first aims being to:
- To provide every young person with first access to a range of music experiences
- To provide more opportunities for young people to deepen and broaden their musical interests and skills
The UK government publishes its new SureStart: Birth to three matter framework, stating that:
"Children become creative through exploration and discovery as they experiment with sound, media and movement. Creativity, imagination and representation allow children to share their thoughts, feelings, understandings and identities with others, using drawings, words, movement, music, dance and imaginative play."
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