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Music | Reviews

Tubular Bells 50th anniversary tour – Milton Keynes theatre

ByEmma September 17, 2023

Review of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary tour at Milton Keynes theatre, arranged by Robin Smith

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Music | Reviews

Connecting through music with Tribit Stormbox Micro 2 speaker

ByEmma September 17, 2023

Connecting through music with a review of the Tribit Stormbox Micro 2 speaker, a portable handheld speaker updated version.

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Music | Parenting

Introducing kids to music through childhood

ByEmma June 1, 2023

Ways to introduce kids to music through childhood with benefits of parent and child bonding across musical interests

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Christmas | Music

Gift Guide for rock music lovers – children or adults

ByEmma July 26, 2022

*Ad – gifted / contains affiliate links In our house you can’t often get away from rock music. While I pretty much stopped listening to Guns n Roses after I finished secondary school, the OH continued his love of rock…

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Music | Reviews

Father and son bonding with Now 100 Hits classic rock

ByEmma June 20, 2019

Father’s day isn’t as big in our family as it is for many others, but children always love to give a gift to their parents. Music is an easy gift to give, and this year, N way excited to review…

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Music | School days

Children singing for children – singing in the choir

ByEmma November 9, 2018

It’s been a busy few weeks at school for N, and a few more exciting weeks with events and trips out on the way. It’s brilliant their school gets them so involved with events run for the secondary school catchment…

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Family life | Music

10 tips to improve music education for children

ByEmma March 20, 2019

Music has always been a big part of my life. As a child I learnt three musical instruments played in orchestras and music school from the age of 9 and took part in area orchestras and post university, a swing…

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Christmas | Days out | Music

The Snowman and Nutcracker concert at Coventry Cathedral

ByEmma August 11, 2018

I’ve never been to Coventry Cathedral but recently we combined our love of music with Christmas and headed off there for The Snowman Tour concert. I’d seen it advertised a while back, and as N loves the Snowman and quite…

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Christmas | Music

My cracking top 10 Christmas songs

ByEmma December 8, 2021

I love a good Christmas song, although Christmas carols are up there as well. I seem to have passed on my love of Christmas songs and music to N who discovered my Christmas compilation* album and has wandered off with…

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Music | Reviews

Music streaming through your tv with Electric Jukebox

ByEmma December 7, 2016

We love music in our house. We might not agree all the time on what to play, but all of us enjoy listening to it. The OH and N love to rock (loudly and in the dark) while watching bands…

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Competitions | Music | Toy reviews

How to introduce kids to musical instruments with pBuzz

ByEmma March 22, 2019

N loves music. He’s getting to the stage though, where he wants to make more of it and do it his own way. Whether that be blasting rock out through the tv or CD player, or tinkering on the piano….

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Music

Tubular Bells 50th anniversary tour – Milton Keynes theatre

Connecting through music with Tribit Stormbox Micro 2 speaker

Introducing kids to music through childhood

Gift Guide for rock music lovers – children or adults

Father and son bonding with Now 100 Hits classic rock

Children singing for children – singing in the choir

10 tips to improve music education for children

The Snowman and Nutcracker concert at Coventry Cathedral

My cracking top 10 Christmas songs

Music streaming through your tv with Electric Jukebox

How to introduce kids to musical instruments with pBuzz

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