ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the Friday Night Project through considering the work of community musicians and how they can support youth development. Community musicians that seek to provide intentional frameworks for transformational musical experiences often work under the conceptual banner of cultural democracy, and projects of the nature are often described in terms of being a music intervention. More Music is an award-winning community music organization based in Morecambe, England. Morecambe is a seaside town on the northwest coast of England, from which the bay looks west towards the mountains of the Lake District, where English folk traditions and countryside remain two of the area’s key tourist draws. More Music has a vibrant young people’s program of activities, taking place across 30 weeks a year, including Stages, a weekly session where young people ages 12–18 come together to form bands and explore studio recording.
