To all of our friends and supporters, we invite you to donate to our festive fundraiser. At Drake Music Scotland, we believe music has the power to transform lives. Our mission is to create opportunities for disabled people of all ages to experience the joy of music and its powerful outcomes for personal growth, social...

In November our Chief Executive Thursa Sanderson and Associate Composer Ben Lunn travelled to Helsingborg in Sweden to rendezvous with Nordic colleagues as part of our New Music ExChange collaboration aiming to advance equity and inclusion in the region’s contemporary music landscape and transform career development for disabled composers and musicians.  Working closely with our...

Young people in several schools across Scotland have gained qualifications due to their work on our All Join In projects! Young people at Braidburn School have gained their ICT: Working with Assistive Technologies National 1 qualification for their work using music technology. A young person at Carronhill School has gained a qualification for Music at...

The academic year 2024-25 has been our biggest year yet for LEARN at Drake Music Scotland. We’ve worked with a record number of young people, and we want to celebrate! Between July 2024 and June 2025 we worked with 1,400 young people in 60 schools across 15 local authorities. This is 1,038 sessions providing music...

Drake Music Scotland is delighted to announce that we’ve been awarded a grant from the D’Addario Foundation! Thank you to the D’Addario Foundation for your ongoing support of our organization and our community.   

We are delighted to confirm that Associate Musician Farhad Ahmed will lead a new creative project with disabled artists as Out of the Common. They will explore Hip Hop, Indian Dance, Algorave & experimental music. They will be working on new material during the summer 2025 with a performance planned for September. More details to...

Drake Musician Rhona Smith was delighted to take part in the Distill Residency run by Hands Up For Trad at Wiston Lodge this April. 8 Musicians gathered for 4 days of workshops around improvisation, composing and developing creative ideas – led by tutors Allie Robertson and Graham Stephen. Rhona was delighted to be part of...

Filmmaker Tom Swift has been following Rhona Smith and Stephanie Humphreys as they developed a new composition for the Edinburgh International Harp Festival. “Finding Voices” offers insight into the technology that Rhona uses to create and perform on her Digital Harp and also how ideas and creative decisions are explored through a collaborative and patient...