Founded in 2021 by Kate Frazer and Daniele De Lissandri, The Music Box is a registered Community Interest Company serving the local community in Pudsey, West Leeds and the surrounding areas.
Kate and Daniele, felt there was a gap in music based provision in the area so they decided to start a beginners guitar group for young people and adults (led by Kate) and a DJ group for young people (led by Daniele). After a year of trading as a not-for-profit business, The Music Box was able to apply for local funding and began offering other music based projects and has quickly become a cornerstone for the local community of young people, families and adults.
The Music Box has extended it's offer locally and now runs a variety of groups, courses, projects and events in Pudsey. You can view these above in our Groups menu.
In 2023, The Music Box represented Pudsey in the Leeds 2023 Year of Culture and became the anchor organisation where they established Fuse Festival which brought together people from Pudsey, Swinnow and Tyersal for a week long music and arts festival. This has become their flagship annual music and arts festival which will run in July 2024.
The Music Box enhances it's offer by working in partnership with other organisations such as Leeds City Council Youth Services, Leeds Music Education Partnership, Pudsey Well-being Centre, White RoseAcademies, St Andrew's Methodist Church, Pudsey Community Project, Barca, Pudsey House, Breeze Leeds, local primary and secondary schools and many more people and artists.
Please contact us if you would like to know more.
The Music Box Yorkshire CIC is a not-for-profit company supplying regular, positive, accessible, motivational and educational music projects, workshops and events. We serve our community by supporting people from all backgrounds bringing people from all different races, ages, religions, socio-economic backgrounds, special behavioural and/or educational needs or abilities using music and the arts as a tool for community cohesion.
We help people develop a range of personal learning and thinking skills including creativity and leadership through community events, workshop sessions, longer projects and progression routes for participants.
All of our work, has an emphasis of developing musical and technical skills, as well as participants enjoying themselves. We aspire to instil confidence and leadership qualities in our participants, and this is achieved by them working collaboratively with other young people, professionals and businesses from local communities, socio-economic groups, and art forms.
Our offer includes:
- A youth rock band project
- A youth guitar club
- A youth DJ club
- A youth choir
- Youth groups for young people involved in ASB or at risk of ASB
- An adult guitar group
- An adult electronic music group
- Private 1-2-1 DJ and Music Production tuition
- Fuse Festival – an annual music and arts festival
- Workshops and projects in schools, youth groups and hospitals
