Friends – Richard & Veth, have attended this year’s Tapper’s show and again blogged about it.  See what they have to say here:  

Link to Beyond the Sea with the Basingstoke Tappers at Exigency In Specie

 It doesn’t take doesn’t need bullying, blunt spoken or multi-platinum selling artists to enable music to be used to help those less fortunate parts of the world such as Uganda.  Joseph Arthur has contributed to the A River Blue project to help displaced children by recording a song with the children being helped.

The background to how Joseph got involved and be read about by going to A River Blue website. The site allows you to download and listen to the song, and if you like it, they ask that you make a donation.

 Another July and another show – completed now.  You can see a blog entry about the performance from a friend of ours at : Beyond the Sea with the Basingstoke Tappers.

For the Tappers, this was the 15th year, although only the 7th for me, and third as stage manager. Unfortunately, on the first night we experienced a technical hitch that we managed to gloss over, but it prevented us showing a short celebratory film.

There are also a couple of pictures on Flickr that can be found here.

If you would like to know more about the Tappers please visit their website – www.BasingstokeTappers.co.uk

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
Plato

 Any parent, who also happens to be a music fan is or has probably been pondering the question Graeme Thomson tussles with in the Guardian blog (Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog – music: Should my kids enjoy my taste in music?) – specifically how do you educate your children in good music?

Graeme, doesn’t arrive at an answer. I did wonder if there is any credence in taking a similar approach that us brits are stereotyped as using with non in English speakers – just talking more slowly and loudly.  But a friend of mine with two youngsters seems to be having a degree of success – his wife doesn’t get a look in on what gets played on the HiFi, and he has for as long as I’ve known him tried to educate her tastes. Oh, and music is always playing so the children haven’t really had a chance or need to find anything else musically – although they haven’t yet reached their teens yet, so there is still time for it to all go wrong.