We are the Music Makers and we are the dreamers of dreams…
Music, Art, and Sport are the greatest diversionary strategies for preventing youth offending. In 1992 at the Music Farm in Mullumbimby, Qld, a big-hearted supergroup of blues musicians gathered together and became the first ‘Kids at Heart’. This was the start of the music industry supporting young offenders.
Thank you to:
Phil Manning; Broderick Smith (RIP); Ian Mason; Matt Taylor; Kevin Borich; All those involved with AAV/Metropolis in 2016; Frank Howson (RIP); The Stockley, See and Mason Band; Wilbur Wilde; Angus Burchill; John ‘Swanee’ Swan; Craig Newman; Penny Dyer; Lisa Edwards; Steve Housden; Steuie ‘Chet’ Fraser, Noiseworks (RIP); Paul Cechinnelli, Vanessa Amorosi Band; Bob ‘Bongo’ Starkey; and Dougie Brady, Producer.
Tracks to be released:
- With A Little Help From My Friends
- Crossroads Blues
- Lost Unto This World
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‘We are the Music Makers and we are the dreamers of dreams’ … this poem published 150 years ago signifies the creative energy of the human race, and ‘three with a new song’s measure can trample a kingdom down’ implies the strength of community in the Breakthrough Program. With three we create an unbreakable cord, with three we conquer!
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‘Ode’ by Arthur O’Shaughnessy
We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers,
Of the world forever, it seems.
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With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world’s great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire’s glory:
One man with a dream. At pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song’s measure
Can trample a kingdom down.
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