The National Lottery Awards for All has awarded FamyShanty, an outreach project linked to the 2022 Southdowns Folk Festival, £9,300 "to help your community thrive".
The aim of the project, they say, is to "bring local families closer together and help improve mental well-being through the medium of acoustic music and the growingly popular genre of Shanty singing."
With the help of partners, a local music shop hiring out instruments at a reduced cost, plus tutoring, FamyShanty hopes to provide a platform for for children and their parents to work together using different instruments and singing styles loosely based around Shanty and ‘Songs from the Sea’.
The project will be held in a local primary school as well as other accessible venues and will run every month between February and October 2022 as part of the Southdowns Music Festival.
Performances and workshops will be held at different festival venues around Bognor Regis as well as online Zoom sessions if required.
"It is envisaged that each monthly session will have a maximum of 30 people so as to provide closer learning support, as well as a safer Covid environment in which all safety protocols will be followed.
"If you’d like to be involved, please contact [email protected] for more details."
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