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Making Music Being Well - the national celebration of active music making for wellbeing - will be running from 17-23 May 2010. More details to follow soon.

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Most Aussie kids miss out on the benefits of a music education while at school.
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CELEBRITY SPOTLIGHT

I’ve sung and played guitar for many years and it has always provided me with an avenue for fun and friendships outside the high pressure life as a professional footballer.

Russell Robertson

Music has been such an important part of each of our lives and has been a constant companion in our relationship as father and daughter.

John Williamson and Ami Williamson

Apart from the school choir and a couple of piano lessons as a child, I have had no musical training, yet music is my life.

Maya Jupiter

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We can do even more for our kids by giving each one of them an effective music education at school.

John Foreman

What I’m trying to do in connecting two cultures (indigenous and western classical) is show that music is music. Forget all the notes on paper!

William Barton

Music has always been a major part of our lives.

Shane & Brett Lee

If it hadn't been for music education for me, I don't know what I would have done with my life.

Kate Ceberano

When it comes to your own music-making, when it’s really happening, when you’re really in the moment, totally absorbed, it’s a transcendental experience.

Bill Leak

Music has always been a very important part of my life and I commend the extension of this magnificent pursuit to all Australian children.

John Symond

As a once shy child, music is something that not only gave me a great sense of satisfaction, but also gave me a greater self confidence.

Jonathon Welch

Making music together is a joyous way of making a very important point.

Sandra Yates

Music in my life has been the most important tool for expression and communication.

Troy Cassar-Daley

Music. Play for Life, the Music Council of Australia's grassroots campaign to get more Australians making music: in schools, communities, everywhere.

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