The Music Workshop Company Blog 

Each month the Music Workshop Company publishes two blogs. One blog, written by the MWC team addresses a key issue in Music Education or gives information about a particular genre or period of music. The other blog is written by a guest writer, highlighting good practice or key events in Music Education. We hope you enjoy reading the blogs. 
 
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To contribute as a guest writer please email Maria@music-workshop.co.uk 

Posts from September 2026

This month we hear from musician Donald Gamble, in the first of a series of guest posts exploring some of the many varied career pathways within the music industry. 
 
Donald Gamble is a world music percussionist who has had a long and interesting career as a working musician and music tutor.  
 
He was born in London as a child of parents who were part of the Windrush Generation.  
 
His parents arrived in the early 1960s from the Caribbean Island, Jamaica, which was at the time part of the British Empire until the island gained its independence in August 1962. 
This month Adam Power-Annand, CEO of Speech Bubbles – a drama programme for children aged 5-7 – offers a window into the organisation’s recent research into creativity. While creativity is often viewed as intangible feature of arts education, Speech Bubbles’ work highlights how it can be formally recognised. In his blog, Power-Annand delves into why this matters for arts organisations looking to better understand the impact of their work and what more they can do to nurture young people’s creativity. 
 
Read on to discover more about Speech Bubbles’ approach and how it could be applied in different arts settings. 
 
Image: Adam Douglas-Bagley 
The theme for Black History Month in October 2026 is honouring our communities. In this month’s blog we celebrate a key figure in the British music community, Kanya King CBE.  
 
King is probably best known for founding the MOBO Awards (Music Of Black Origin Awards), which are today recognised as a major fixture in the cultural calendar.  
 
She has been credited with changing the face of the UK music industry through her determination to highlight and celebrate the work of Black musicians and culture. 
 
Image: TheAsianAwards, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 

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