Who we are
B Sharp is Lyme Youth Arts second project , initiated and directed by young people. Lyme Youth Arts is a voluntary committee that oversees commissioned works and is responsible for managing the budget.
The B Sharp Team are:
Project Manager:
Fran Williams – 07968 177663 fran.williams@lymeregis.com
Fran is a project worker & creative producer with a 30-year professional career working with young people as a senior practitioner in youth & social work. Fran has set up and managed various youth & community arts and music projects in disadvantaged inner city and rural areas. Projects include photography, film, carnival, fashion, textiles, dance, street parties, skate parks, festivals, murals, and a alcohol free nightclub run by young people.
At the root of everything, is a social conscience and political ambition to bring young people and communities together by making creative things happen.
Recently she has committed to developing opportunities with young people in Lyme Regis.
As Jeremy Deller say’s “Art isn’t what you make, it’s what you make happen”
Music leaders:
John K Miles – Instrumentalist/Voice/Composer 
‘Sophisticated composer’…’Powerful saxophonist’
John Fordham – The Guardian
John K Miles has composed numerous scores for film and television (BBC1, BBC2, Channel 4, Channel 5 and various independent film production companies), released two solo CD’s (‘The Enchanter’ and ‘Trane Ride’), and written prolifically for theatre, jazz groups, world music ensembles, and the classical concert hall.
As an instrumentalist he’s worked with a range of artists including reggae star Maxi Priest, US soulman Geno Washington, British jazz institution Alan Skidmore and long standing Latin group King Salsa.
John has also led many creative music workshop projects, facilitating composition and performance for a range of clients. Most recently these have included The London Philharmonic Orchestra, The City of London Sinfonia, ENO Baylis, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Anvil Arts, The Roundhouse and Create2learn.
This site includes composition and instrumental credit listings, audio clips from film,
television and theatre, solo CD releases, and a creative music workshop project CV.
Ralph Cree – Drumming/Beats/Percussion/Compositer 
Ralph Cree is a professional performer and educator in World / Ethnic drums and percussion. He has a condition called ‘percussionitis’, which means that for the last 18 years, he has had to obsessively play rhythms on anything within arms length of his body! In 2004 he and Glyn Bush set up the company Magic Drum which provide workshops in Afro-Cuban and Brazilian Drumming; ‘in-the-moment’ music making; and Music Technology. In 2004, he co-founded The Magic Drum Orchestra, a 14 piece Samba Band, who regularly play at festivals such as The Big Chill, and Camp Bestival, and local cultural events.
Glyn Bush – DJ/Tec/Beats and Loops/Drumming/Digital/Guitar/Key board/Composer
Glyn Bush is a Dorset-based musician, producer, composer and DJ with a particular interest in drums and percussion. He has a wide range of experience in the music industry having worked with major labels, toured in the UK and abroad as well as running his own independent label. With Ralph Cree he runs Magic Drum providing drumming workshops in schools, colleges and arts centres as well as team- and confidence- building sessions in the corporate sector. He also leads the Magic Drum Orchestra with Ralph, which is a 15 piece percussion group playing a range of styles including samba, afrobeat, hip hop, funk and drum and bass.
Apprentice Music Leaders:
Jacques Verhaeren (JV)
Jacques was a late-comer to the world of music, not playing an instrument till his last year of school at the age of 18. Once he picked up the guitar however, he realised that he had found something worth persuing for the rest of his life. Though he wouldn’t class himself as a guitarist, he is willing to play whatever is needed to get the job done, now playing bass for local afro-funk band Papa Le Gal with fellow trainees Olli and Greg. He can often be seen dancing in silence to music inside his own head and has now resigned himself to the fact that music has officially taken over his whole body. Spent a while rubbing shoulders with special brew guzzling homeless people as a busker in this country and abroad, although the money was good, got fed up with being thought of as a homeless man as he always had a roof over his head. Is loving his time with B Sharp as making music with others has always been for him, the best way of learning music, and in John, Glyn and Ralph, he has found some excellent teachers.
Jacques Verhearen
Oli Dixon
To me ‘B sharp’ is a great project which has now been tried and tested and is ready to expand, exploring it’s visions of future music in the local area. It has provided a base for both education and recreation with a core group that utilise all the opportunities offered to them. The project is well led and well managed, with a very democratic decision making process.
Proving to be great ambassadors for the town of Lyme Regis, the ‘B Sharp’ youth members are polite, fun and have an ability to ‘understand’ a wide range of musical ideas. This, (in my view) is a compliment to the way the group works together to overcome problems and the way the training and information has been delivered.
Personally I have had great fun working with the project. It has provided support, education and professional training to me, all of which I wish to continue giving back as a trainee youth leader!
Olli Dixon – Trainee music leader
Owen Cook
Hiya,
My name is Owen Cooke I’m 25 and I live in Beer, Devon. I play a small amount of keyboard but produce music on the computer. I have a number of groups and projects ranging from underground hard style and psy-trance to electronic pop music, with a large number of people involved. I enjoy all music styles as i believe you can learn from every genre.
The B sharp project is very important to me as it not gives young people a flame for their musical and group organisation interests, it also help me to build my teaching skills that are very important for my future in the music industry.
Seeing the young people happy makes me happy and its great when all the strings are tied and a performance/piece of music or even just a meeting is produced .
Owen Cooke. aka dirty volume / go stereo. Find us on: YouTube & MySpace
Greg Walters
Ever since a young Greg Walters entered the world of Glastonbury festival, he realised that music is the only thing for him. Whether drumming in the band Papa Le Gal or creating ominous synth driven drones he’s always trying to learn, teach and create anything and everything to do with music. He was a late comer to the b sharp’s project, and has performed in various performances such as the Lyme Regis fossil festival and Weymouth carnival. “When I first arrived at B Sharp’s, I was highly impressed by the project. I have learnt a great deal from not only music leaders but also from all of the kids I have worked with. It has been very rewarding and well worth doing and I hope to see B sharp’s progress into the future.”
Greg Walters
Secretary of Lyme Youth Arts.
Founder member, fund raiser and B Sharp participant.
I feel privileged to be part of B Sharp, it has really become part of my life, not just the sessions but the inspiration I get from it, to create ideas, in the way we have learnt to create a piece of music. I have loved working with so many amazing people, who I would not have met it it wasn’t for B Sharp.
Phoebe Hill, Participant and Secretary.
Phoebe Hill c/o maisie@maisiehill.co.uk
Photographs
Miaise Hill maisie@maisiehill.co.uk
Young artists contributions so far:
Original founders – Lally Owen and Jack Loughlin
Part time trainee & musician Will Benson
DJ Sam Felix Marsh and DJ Lee
[Original website design] Tola Mohiki tolamohiki@googlemail.com
Posters, banners, t-shirts and logo design- Morgan Faverty, Richard Smythe
Poster design/illustration – Jack Loughlin,Dan Blaker, Kiasah Ahmad Sanusi
Hatty Maguire, George Ward
Volunteers
Lyme Youth Arts committee. All those musicians and individuals who help set up Sound of Summer and played at the Busking weekend.
Tax, Georgie & Maddy Williams for their behind the scenes support.
Lyme Radio, Nomad, Mary and Bill.
Maisie Hill for her fantastic photographs.
Training & Accreditation.
Dorset County Council Introduction to Youth Work.
Plymouth Music Action Zone ‘Soundskills and Music Leader‘ training Arts Award.
Trainees:
Peer mentoring, group work, music leader, events management, skill sharing.
Project Manager:
‘Amonite’ Dorset’s Cultural Leadership Programme.
Conference:
Jurassic Coast carnival conference.
