RYEDALE’S long-awaited new music and poetry project for young people, the Pied Piper Project, has arrived.

After a year’s planning, a major award from the National Lottery and with the endorsement of two years’ funding from Ryedale District Council, the project for five to 25- year-olds has launched its free magazine, Redspot, and also has its own website.

Following on from two taster events in December at Ryedale School, Nawton, and Brooklyn Youth Centre, Norton, the project kicks off for real on Friday, January 23, with music and sound engineering workshops at Brooklyn Youth Centre.

Young people who have done the music workshops will have the chance to perform with the pros, while budding sound engineers can work on the mixing of the live performances with experienced sound engineer Ian Mayes.

The Pied Piper Project includes a series of workshops and showcase performances, with opportunities to create, perform and make recordings and learn about recording and sound engineering.

All the projects are being led by professional performers, artists and technicians, so as well as working alongside them, there will be chances to listen to some first-rate live performers.

The Pied Piper Project directors are Sarah Derbyshire, Yorkshire director of Live Music Now, and Simon Thackray, who runs the Shed, the Brawby-based Ryedale arts venue.

From the Gazette & Herald this week in 1998

 

 

SHOPPERS at a Malton supermarket, which was lobbied before Christmas by farmers protesting at falling incomes, this week overwhelmingly backed British beef.

But many people interviewed by the Gazette & Herald at the town’s Safeway store were unaware of the farmers’ protest on December 16, and none had changed their shopping habits because of it.

During the event, shoppers were given free home-produced eggs and potatoes by farmers, who urged them to sign the National Farmers’ Union's Keep Britain Farming petition, and pointed out that the prices they received for their produce had in some cases actually fallen from 20 years ago.

But when shoppers at Safeway were questioned, nearly a month after the protest, there was a mixed message for the farmers.

Less than half were aware of their efforts to lobby local people, but nearly all still bought British beef.

A spokesman for Safeway, Tony Combes, pointed out that the company was committed to supporting UK agriculture, provided its standards could be met. The previous year, about 85 per cent of the food and drink sold in its 454 stores across the country was from this country, and from February its beef would be clearly marked with country of origin.

From the Gazette & Herald this week in 1998

 

 

CIVIC leaders in Malton and Norton were anxious this week to allay any fears that the lifting barriers, which are being installed in place of gates at Norton level crossing, will be dangerous.

A start on the installation of the barriers and the realignment of the junction with Welham Road, the A64 and Norton Road, was made on Saturday night, shortly after the train disaster in Staffordshire.

Eleven people were killed, and about 40 were injured at Hixon level crossing, Staffordshire, when the 70mph Manchester-Euston express ploughed into a 60-ton transporter at a Continental automatic barrier crossing. In that accident, the signalman was three miles away, and reports stated that the barriers were automatically brought down when trains passed a certain point on the line. The barriers at Norton, however, will not be automatic, but will be controlled by the signalman in the box at the crossing.

From the Malton Gazette & Herald this week in 1968

 

 

MALTON Rural Council decided on Saturday to submit a proposed sewage disposal scheme for Whitwell to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, with a request that it be allowed to proceed despite the national economic crisis.

Coun J Patmore, urging that the scheme should go forward, said there were applications for 24 bungalows at Whitwell, but before they built new houses, there had to be new sewerage.

Coun John Wainwright said if the scheme was deferred it would probably cost twice as much in a few years time. The clerk, Mr T Hicks, said the village drain, which takes the effluent from the septic tanks and surface water, was very ancient and kept collapsing.

HALF of the main saw mill was gutted by fire on Friday at the Ryedale Saw Mills, Helmsley, owned by B Frank and Son. A large sawdust hopper was also destroyed together with items of machinery – including two electric motors. Timber stocks escaped damage. The alarm was raised at 1am by Mr W Halton, the subpostmaster at Helmsley, who had been visiting friends near the mill and saw the glare of the flames when he was returning home.

From the Malton Gazette & Herald this week in 1968