Mars college

Need to bring your school community together?
Create your unique school anthem in a day...!
David Mowat and Johnny Mars, musicians in the highly successful King Cotton COSTA community project, who’ve just finished facilitating the City Academy Bristol anthem, can help your school create its very own. It’s a great way to increase a sense of belonging in your school, by inspiring students to write, arrange, rap or sing their creation, using contemporary idioms and lasting for years to come!


Use this project together with 'sing up'
Expert singers from ‘Sing Up Communities’ could follow up this initiative to teach the whole school to really sing out the anthem and embody its positive values (David has made contact with Sing Up Bristol. Nationally try www.singup.org)

  • An ideal event for one to several classes, the day typically would involve
    Lyric writing, exploring the school community’s positive features, diversity, environmental awareness and how children overcome adversity and develop perseverance
  • Composition (rhythm, melody and percussion)
  • Harmonica learning from an African-American blues maestro
  • Art session, for CD cover ( printed digital photos of paintings)
    Rehearsal
  • Recorded performance to parents at end of day, and production of master CD, with the option of a fully mixed, engineered product later

CLICK HERE TO SEE A SAMPLE VIDEO

“The kids had complete ownership. The anthem had real quality and it came
from all of them”.
Stuart Albery, Year 5 teacher May Park Primary, Bristol

“Some unexpected rhythmic and lyrical genius emerged”.
Lisa Middle, Year 3 teacher Hannah More Primary, Bristol

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DETAILS click to email Johnny Mars or 0117 9559444.