How to ensure brass banding gets Living Heritage recognition

UK Living Heritage is being collated in an inventory by the government following its signing of the UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. As a result, everyone practising a heritage cultural activity is now invited to put it forward for submission.

A wide range of music making and performance practices can be included, not just older forms of traditional music, but also more modern forms such as brass banding, steelbands or drum and bass.

A Making Music online event is being held to explain more about Living Heritage and the process of submitting to the inventory. It’s free and open to non-members as well, so if you wish to attend please use this link.

Most Making Music members’ activities in making and presenting music are Living Heritage and so it’s important that they are included on the inventory.

The process is designed for practitioners themselves to make a submission but Making Music supports and encourages brass bands and the like to make a submission. Hence the online session which will take place on Wednesday 11 February from 3.00pm to 4.30pm.

The event will be joined by Steve Byrne from Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland who are a Community Support Hub with expertise on this topic.

Submissions to the inventory are only open until the end of March this year, although the submission process is intended to re-open annually.

Making Music is urging you to come to the online event and make sure our valuable brass banding heritage practice gets the recognition it deserves.