BBC Music Day Live!

Summary

BBC Music Day has been a nationwide celebration of music, bringing people together from different generations and communities
Events took place across the UK, with coverage across BBC TV, radio and online
Highlights included Hadrian's Wall of Sound, a 7,000-mile record-breaking duet and live concerts in Glasgow, Belfast and Cardiff

Live Reporting

If you're near Pacific Quay in Glasgow this evening...published at 18:33 BST 5 June 2015

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Don't miss your regional news this eveningpublished at 18:28

From 6:30pm, many of the BBC local news programmes will be reporting live from BBC Music Day celebrations across the country.

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Lulu joins the partypublished at 18:23

Tonight's One Show is a BBC Music Day special live from Glasgow. BBC Music Day Ambassador Lulu is joining Chris and Alex.

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Looking ahead to tonight's Crumlin Road Gaol concertpublished at 18:20

Sean Rafferty is in Belfast - listen live until 7:15pm and watch the concert later tonight on BBC Two Northern Ireland at 9pm and on the BBC Red Button at 10pm.

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Star of CBBC doc performs tonightpublished at 18:14
Tonight 15 year-old composer Shane will be playing piano in concert, external with the RNCM Session Orchestra. They’ll be playing Shane’s own piece ‘Spectrum’, it’s inspired by CBBC! Shane’s story will soon be the subject of a CBBC My Life documentary. What a talent!
Still to come on BBC Music Daypublished at 18:00

If you are just joining us, happy BBC Music Day! We're into an evening of wonderful music celebrations.

A unique relay of 600 musicians on Hadrian’s Wall of Sound started at 6am and is due to finish in the next hour. We also have events in Bristol, Liverpool, Bradford, Plymouth, across Northern Ireland and in Cardiff.

Glasgow hosts a big concert from 8pm, which you can watch live on the BBC Red Button with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Jamie Cullum.

Manic Street Preachers will play to a crowd of 10,000 at Cardiff Castle. and there's a concert taking place in Crumlin Road gaol in Belfast .

Earlier BBC Radio 3 and Radio Cymru joined forces to break a world record, bridging more than 7,000 miles to set the greatest distance between people singing a duet.

Get inspired and get involved using #BBCMusicDay
BBC Music Day has reached Liverpoolpublished at 17:14

A BBC Music Day event is taking place right now until 11pm this evening on the waterfront in Liverpool. Find out more on our Liverpool page

BBC Radio Merseyside have coverage of the event throughout the day.

BBC North West Tonight will show highlights of the day including the Connect It performance.

There will be further coverage on the 6th June: All the Introducing acts highlights will be on Dave Monks show on BBC Radio Merseyside as well as Janice Long 's show on BBC Radio 2.BBC Radio 6 Music will present highlights of Craig Charles' set on his funk and soul show at 6pm on Sat 6 June.

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More on that World Record duet success!published at 16:55

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The saga of Hannah's sweetspublished at 16:48
The great GCSE fiasco

Over on my blog, I've written about a notoriously hard GCSE maths question - and tried to answer an old chestnut: how hard is maths GCSE?
Congratulations to all involved in a record breaking moment on BBC Music Day!published at 16:36

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BBC Music Day Unsung Heroespublished at 16:25

The final BBC Music Day has just been revealed on Steve Wright's BBC Radio 2 show. You can watch interviews with all five of our Unsung Heroes here on the Music Day website .

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Pics from Bristolpublished at 16:06

Here are a selection of BBC Music Day images from the Colston Hall concert that's just finished. You'll be able to listen again to the whole thing here shortly: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s72nn

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Rehearsing for In Tune, live on BBC Radio 3, from 16:30published at 16:01

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Still to come on BBC Music Day...published at 15:59

If you are just joining us, happy BBC Music Day! It's been a busy day so far with much more still to come!

A unique relay of 600 musicians on Hadrian’s Wall of Sound started at 7.00am and will go on until 7.00pm. We also have events in Bristol, Liverpool, Bradford, Plymouth, across Northern Ireland and in Cardiff.

Glasgow hosts a big concert tonight with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Jamie Cullum, while Manic Street Preachers will play to a crowd of 10,000 at Cardiff Castle.

In the next hour BBC Radio 3 and Radio Cymru will join forces to try and break a World Record , bridging more than 7,000 miles to try and set the greatest distance between people singing a duet at 4.30pm.

Get inspired and get involved using #BBCMusicDay
BBC Music Day on the Asian Networkpublished at 15:40
You can catch-up on the best of BBC Music Day on the Asian Network so far with this special collection of clips
BBC Music Day Ambassador for Wales Tim Rhys-Evans is looking forward to their Guinness World Record Attemptpublished at 15:34

Watch Tim's video explaining why he's become an Ambassador for BBC Music Day

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Here are a few pictures from BBC Music Day in Bradford...published at 15:22

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Meanwhile in Belfast...published at 15:17

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Live from Bristolpublished at 15:13
Just about to start in the foyer of Bristol’s iconic Colston Hall is another of our BBC Music Day concerts.
Conductor Charles Hazlewood and members of the world renowned British Paraorchestra will perform four original pieces alongside youth and adult choirs from across the West Country. This collaboration includes young people with special educational needs and disabilities who will be performing on custom built instruments using new assistive technology.
Listen live now on BBC Radio Bristol or find out more on our Bristol page