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Review from Cloth Cat student 2009/10 Yelp

Band started on Cloth Cat course Roguish Stranger

Another singer who started gigging through Cloth Cat courses Sally 7

YEP March 2010:

: yepreview

Some Of Cloth Cat’s Many Lives

An Article on Sandman Magazines Website

Mike Jolly posing in front of the Chemic Tavern mirror with Steve Hart

Isn’t it a pleasure, when you’re anywhere a batch of flyers is in reach and some are those Cloth Cat cards? – colourful and inventive with something good to tell you. Cloth Cat has been bashing away as a musical charity in the Woodhouse and Hyde Park area for nearly ten years now and they’d like to go further with a message that’s still worth putting about.

Music to the ears of Leeds 6! Cloth Cat offer free music courses...

leeds music scene article

Cloth Cat continues to run a series of exciting free courses based around music in association with the Workers Education Association, for people in the Woodhouse & Hyde Park ward of Leeds.

Leeds prisoners armed with guitars as Billy Bragg drops in

Yesterday Bragg visited Armley Prison with Leeds folk singer Gary Kaye, who will take songwriting lessons with inmates.

Mr Kaye, from Horsforth, says the project will be extended to prisoners on their release, with further courses run by Cloth Cat, a Leeds music project.

Sophie Barnes finds out how you can learn more about music with Cloth Cat

You may not yet have heard of Cloth Cat, the organisation that set out with the intention of offering advice to those involved in the local music scene, but you soon will. In fact this interview, with Cloth Cat’s Mike Jolly, may just do the trick.

South Leeds Life

Article What’s On January 2011: New Youth Music Mentoring Project

Following the success of the Youth Music Mentoring Programme run over the summer, Cloth Cat will be running a new project during January and February 2011. Supported by Leeds City Council, Cloth Cat is looking for people aged 13 to 25 who are looking to work with others to form a band. “We don’t expect expertise on your chosen instrument, but a basic level would be required. It will be run down at Old Chapel Studios (Holbeck), our partners on this project

Youth music mentoring scheme

Leeds City Council

'Youth Music Mentors' aims to improve the life chances of young people through music-based mentoring. Funded by DCMS, Youth Music Mentors provides young people, who need additional support, the opportunity to achieve musical and social outcomes, with support from a trained mentor.

Radio interview Link:

http://www.leeds.gov.uk/files/Internet2007/2010/19/bbc/raw/talent/show/audio.mp3

Moto Hike

A few years ago a group including Chris set up Cloth Cat Studios, a not for profit enterprise based in the university ward of Leeds. It provides educational opportunities for local people through music and facilities to promote people who are involved, or want to be involved in music and are on low incomes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

Cloth Cat Studios Ltd is registered with the Friendly Society as an Industrial & Provident Society for the benefit of the community, registered in England No. 28890R and as a charity with the Inland Revenue ref. XR31169