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Customers In Action - Monmouth School

Black Cat Music are very proud to present a great performance from another one of our customers, Monmouth School.

We are using our Friday morning blog to showcase our customers in action and promote some of our customers upcoming events and services. If you would like us to be promoting your events or showcasing your work, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Inspirational Music - Karl Tausig

This morning, in celebration of Karl Tausig's birthday, we are sharing a video featuring one of his performances.

If you have something that you find particularly productive, we would love to hear about that.

Customers In Action - University of Edinburgh

Black Cat Music are very proud to present a great performance from another one of our customers, the University of Edinburgh.

We are using our Friday morning blog to showcase our customers in action and promote some of our customers upcoming events and services. If you would like us to be promoting your events or showcasing your work, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Inspirational Music - Howard Hanson

This morning, in celebration of Howard Hanson's birthday, we are sharing a video featuring one of his performances.

If you have something that you find particularly productive, we would love to hear about that.

Customers In Action - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Black Cat Music are very proud to present a great performance from another one of our customers, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

We are using our Friday morning blog to showcase our customers in action and promote some of our customers upcoming events and services. If you would like us to be promoting your events or showcasing your work, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Inspirational Music - Malcolm Arnold

This morning, in celebration of Malcolm Arnold's birthday, we are sharing a video featuring one of his performances.

If you have something that you find particularly productive, we would love to hear about that.

Customers In Action - Knighton Chamber Orchestra

Black Cat Music are very proud to present a great performance from another one of our customers, the Knighton Chamber Orchestra.

We are using our Friday morning blog to showcase our customers in action and promote some of our customers upcoming events and services. If you would like us to be promoting your events or showcasing your work, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Black Cat Music customers half price entry to Manchester Music Show

It’s half price for Black Cat Music customers attending the Music Show, which runs alongside the new Music Mark conference and takes place at Manchester Central, 15 & 16th November.

Great savings of 50 per cent are on offer for “on-the-day ticket prices” for Black Cat Music customers using promotion code “BCM3009” who will have the discount applied at checkout.

There will be a great opportunity for customers in the north-west to meet the staff from Black Cat Music and examine the latest music education equipment products. Music Show event supporters, Black Cat Music, are planning to exhibit a number of products at the show selected from its comprehensive programme of music performance equipment. Examples include music stands, staging, choral risers, music folders and conductors' equipment. Black Cat Music enjoys exclusive distributorship of Wenger Corporation’s extensive product range - acknowledged as the largest manufacturer of fully-guaranteed staging and music performance equipment in the world.

The event also offers the chance to discuss any noise problems with experts from Black Cat Acoustics and sister company MusicPracticeRooms.com, who will also be in attendance at the show. In addition the company’s Mark Rasmussen and Martin Loft will be running a workshop – Simple Solutions to Noise Problems - scheduled to take place at 1.30 pm on Friday 15th November. Black Cat Acoustics provides authorative guidance to steer anyone experiencing noise problems quickly towards pin-pointing a solution. Or, if preventing noise related nuisance is the issue, then sound isolated music practice rooms can provide the answer. Discover also the additional benefits these custom built self-contained, air-conditioned acoustic spaces provide for the comfort of musicians and sound quality, not to mention the improved utilisation of space that can be achieved.

For further information about the The Music Show and for the latest announcements visit http://music-show.co.uk/cms/.

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Time to re-order music folders with your own crest

If your choir, music group or school has previously ordered music or choral folders with your own crest or logo from Black Cat Music, now is a good time to order extra copies in time for Christmas.

When we create a die to imprint your crest on music folders using our traditional gold-blocking technique we keep the die ready for future use. Just give us a call if you need to add to your set of folders.

If you haven’t previously ordered from us you might like to know that Black Cat Music offer a gold-blocking service on all of our choral and orchestral folders, so you can add your logo or school crest to the front of the folder. We can also add gold-blocked lettering, and many customers choose to gold-block the instrument name or number in the corner of the music folder. Our choir folders and band folders from Black Cat Music are elegant, high-quality music folders to help you organise your sheet music. Whether you belong to a professional orchestra, chorus, school band or church choir, our choral and orchestral folders will give a sense of identity to your music group.



We want your festive music themed photos for our Christmas card

Black Cat Music is looking for a great image to feature on the company’s 2013 Christmas card by inviting entries to a photo competition.

Announcing the Black Cat Music Christmas Card Competition, Sales Manager Teresa Rogers said, “This is a great opportunity to put your school, college, music group, choir, band or orchestra in the spotlight this Christmas. The competition is open to anyone involved in music and entries can be submitted by either individuals, or on behalf of music groups. With a theme of ‘Music at Christmas’ there is plenty of scope for some exciting images. The winning photo, selected by a judging panel will feature on the official Black Cat Music 2013 Christmas card and the winning photographer will receive a voucher for £150 to be used when purchasing products from Black Cat Music.”

So whether you are a choir of angel voices, male voice choir or barbershop, soloist, band or orchestra, it is time to bring out the digital camera and create a winning entry. Church bells, tubular bells, jingle bells or cute black cats in santa hats – whatever your creative concept, send in your entries, but hurry the closing date is 25th October.

Photos entered in the competition should be 300 dpi and emailed to marketing@blackcatmusic.com . Please provide full contact details with your email including the name of the photographer, the music group, email contact, daytime telephone number and full postal address. The winner will be asked to assign copyright and confirm anyone featured in the image has given written individual approval for publication by Black Cat Music.