Goodbye SoundTown
Our third SoundTown project - this year in Elgin - has come at an end. There was a big final event in the town on Saturday and you may have caught some of the action on the Janice Forsyth Show.
In September we'll start afresh in Kelso and that means we'll be installing the studio facilitiesin Kelso High School in the coming weeks.
We started the SoundTown project three years ago in Dalmellington and in that time we have discovered a lot about working with schools and communities and about the expectations of children and teenagers.
We've also heard what those young people think of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ and the kind of services we ought to be delivering in the future.
Just about every department in ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scotland takes part in the SoundTown project over the course of the school year. The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scottish Syyphony Orchestra, for example, have been involved right from the start.
It's different from the kind of outside broadcasts where we arrive in a town for one day and leave a few hours later. SoundTown allows us to build relationships and make friends.
One day we'll revisit our various SoundTown schools and see what has become of the pupils we worked with. Perhaps some will be forging their own careers in the media or within the music business.
Unless we've put them off for life!.
