2010 date announced!
With support from The Australian Government plans for
Music: Count Us In 2010 are in full swing. Mark your diaries
for Thursday, 2nd September 2010, 11.30am AEST.
Join this year's songwriting team! If you're in Year 9 or above and write great songs, download the song brief here for your opportunity to help write the Song That Stops Australia.
Registrations for participating schools will open shortly.
Last year, all around Australia, hundreds of thousands of students, parents and families performed the song 'The Music is Everything' at the same time. The music and singing rang out in primary and secondary schools, from the Kimberleys to Campbelltown! Why? To create a nationwide celebration of the value of music education for ALL students.
Click on the link below to see the wrap-up footage of the
Music: Count Us In event in Canberra with Arts Minister, Peter Garrett, John Foreman and 2000 children outside Parliament House! Footage of the events held in Sydney and Melbourne will follow shortly.
Find out why Music. Count Us In is important and how it helps get more music making in our schools
Read about how different schools prepared for Australia's biggest school music gig last year.
This project is supported by funding from The Australian Government
Music. Count Us In is managed by Music. Play for Life, the Music Council of Australia's grassroots campaign to get more Australians making music: in schools, communities, everywhere. The campaign is run in partnership with the Australian Music Association and the Australian Society for Music Education.
   
   
