South Street Kids are embarking on an exciting journey to write, record, and perform their own original songs, culminating in the creation o

New Gen and Making Waves will join hundreds of young people to raise Snape Malting's Concert Hall roof and celebrate the power of music on S

Through our youth music projects, we know how important the local music scene is. That’s why we’re shining a spotlight on some of the venues

The Phoenix Project’s art show - Take a Walk on the Wild Side - opened at the Hive in Ipswich on World Mental Health Day, 10th October...

New Gen completed a songwriting project in summer 23 that was sprung off a conversation we had with PC Bevan. We shared these songs in...

Read on to find out what New Gen got up to last term. New Gen continued the recording section of their Mental Health EP at the start of...

Check out this song we created with the young people at Hanford Hall Primary School as part of the Creative Club after school project!...

During the Easter holidays Ipswich Community Media ran a Music Project at South Street Studios in collaboration with Suffolk County...

Saturday April 1st was the South Street Kid's 'I.P.S.W.I.C.H' showcase at Eastern Angles theatre and what a day it was! Each letter of...

In February the young people from our weekly music project New Gen launched their EP ‘Mind Over Matter’ - a culmination of four months of...

Our Making Waves project continues to be successful in supporting at-risk children and young people experiencing difficult challenges in...

Supporting young people through music and creativity During the summer Ipswich Community Media ran a 6-week Music Project at South Street...

By Kristin Caswell, New Gen Session Leader & Out Loud Music Project Coordinator Photo credit: John Ferguson This term for New Gen has...

By Kristin Caswell, SSK Session leader & Out Loud Music Project Coordinator It's been a busy time for South Street Kids this term with...

From Snape Maltings to Mayday; New Gen pulled it out of the bag on Sunday! 'Ipswich Mayday was an amazing experience and it was wonderful...

It can feel like a surge of adrenaline that turns the chair you're sitting on into a rocket. When you're making music for yourself , it...

Suffolk’s renowned music festival, Latitude, is unique to other festivals for many reasons; whether it’s the idyllic location set in a...

On Saturday 9th October we were lucky enough to have Natty Sobhee run a beat box and lyric writing with our South Street Kids. Natty is...

Local artist, and Smokehouse alumni, Bessie Turner was back in Suffolk last weekend to perform at the infamous Snape Maltings. As part of...

New Gen, a project created by Ipswich Community Media in 2019 and now run in collaboration with Out Loud Music, helps to unite young,...