Danny Baker in Handprint Ceremony in support of Community Music Centre, S.E. London

DULWICH, U.K. - March 3, 2014 - PRLog -- Danny will be taking part in a Handprint Ceremony. His handprints will form part of a Wall of Fame that will be within the Community Music Centre@jags. Excitement is building at the School as the list of stars backing the campaign grows. Well-known names now include Amanda Redman, Joanna Lumley & husband Stephen Barlow, Sally Hawkins, Nicky Campbell, Charlotte Ritchie, Angela Gheorghiu…

The Community Music Centre@jags will be completed in 2017, by which point £17 million will have been raised. The CMC@jags will provide much needed musical resources for the area. There will be a 400 seat concert hall, a 100 seat recital hall, 26 practice rooms, 3 music technology rooms, a listening room, and music therapy room. The Centre will be home to community choirs, orchestras, & musical groups of all styles. It will provide the highest standards of accessibility so those of all physical & mental abilities can access the Centre.

JAGS has an excellent national reputation, and a unique musical heritage thanks to its first Directors of Music, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst. Now the music-makers are not only pupils from JAGS but from other schools; they are part of James Allen’s Saturday School for the Performing Arts, or one of their South London Youth Orchestras, or the James Allen Community Orchestra, or JAGS Choral Society. The talented and committed musicians of south-east London deserve high quality, purpose-built performance spaces.

"Music is the greatest extra you can add to education" (Richard Stilgoe OBE, CMC Patron)