What is the HarrisonParrott Foundation Music Access Awareness week?

Music Access Awareness week (or #musicaccessawareness) is an annual charity campaign run by HarrisonParrott Foundation designed to engage with individuals and organisations involved across the music education sector (including educators, schools, professional musicians, hubs, foundations, trusts, orchestras, agencies and venues) in the United Kingdom to identify barriers to music access and help to solve them.

The campaign aims to highlight the problems of music access but also facilitate partnerships, dialogue, encourage knowledge sharing, and provide project inspiration to allow more young people to gain access to music education. We aim to bring together all aspects of the music ecosystem to look for solutions.

We’re here to fight for music access. But we can’t do it alone. Here’s how you can get involved to help spread the message.

Throughout the awareness week, we released special content highlighting the problems and possible solutions to music access:

• podcast episode about ​‘How the music industry can get more involved in music education to broaden music career horizons’
• read a blog article from HarrisonParrott Patrons Leia Zhu and Ken Fairbrother about their music journeys
• download our infographic visualising multilayered pathways in the music career landscape and its relationship to funding 
• read our white paper: ​‘Barriers to and Drivers of Adolescent Arts Engagement’

Social Media 
We posted regularly on HarrisonParrott social media accounts and encouraged people interested in music access to post about how they accessed music, why it is important, what music means to them, or to play a short melody. Please tag @harrisonparrottltd and use #musicaccessawareness so we can share your contribution and reach as many people as possible about this important cause.