Local children set to make their voices heard at COP26

Rehearsing outdoors at the newly-refurbished Vale Mossley and the astonishingly beautiful community growing hub Veg in the Park in Waterhead, the children braved hot and muggy August weather to record their work

Over the summer, the children of the locally-based Incredible Plastic Street Band have been taking part in a massive UK-wide collaboration - ahead of adding their voices to the tidal wave of youth music ahead of the UN climate assembly, COP26.

Let it Grow-Music for COP26 features six youth carnival/samba bands from Manchester, Durham, London, Edinburgh and Glasgow, all adding their musical magic to the track ‘Enough is Enough’, a climate protest song by Karine Polwart (BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer of the Year, 2018).

A video of their message will be released alongside the COP26 conference in November.

Rehearsing outdoors at the newly-refurbished Vale Mossley (the Northern Centre for Carnival Excellence) and the astonishingly beautiful community growing hub Veg in the Park in Waterhead, the children braved hot and muggy August weather to record their work.

With generous support from the Ragdoll Foundation, the children created an ‘earth artefact’ out of recycled plastic (bottle caps and theatre lighting gels), which depicted a miniature world on a stick and which travelled the whole country to take part in filming with each youth band.

The Incredible Plastic Street Band are currently taking new members and welcome anyone aged three-12yrs, no experience necessary.

They play plastic trumpets, trombones and saxophones, learn percussion and improvise carnival vibes for concerts.

Please apply at: ipsbfantastic.org or message 07941 157178, or go to the Facebook page @IPSBplasticfantastic

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