Julian Lloyd Webber special guest for Telford Langley School concert
Cello star Julian Lloyd Webber will be the special guest when hundreds of pupils strike up at a concert to celebrate a pioneering music project.
He will join around 400 children for the event that will be held at The Telford Langley School. The school is a centre for the In Harmony project which uses music to engage children and their families.
The initiative that has been running for four years was set up by the star and is based on the Venezuelan El Sistema model of orchestral music teaching.
In Telford, lessons in playing instruments are based mainly at Old Park Primary School, in Malinslee, where more than 500 pupils get up to five hours of music per week.
Performances are at the heart of the programme, helping to develop relationships with parents and the wider community.
Mr Lloyd Webber, the brother of composer Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, will perform the official opening of the concert with a short speech.
The Minister for Schools Nick Gibb is also due to attend the show on July 7 at the school in Duce Drive, Dawley, at 1.30pm.
Telford and Stoke is among six In Harmony projects in England.
