Learn to Play 2025 - FREE Music/Instrument Taster Day

Saturday 11th October Learn to Play, FREE Taster Music Day!

For the second year running we are taking part in Music for All’s Learn to Play! We are offering young musicians from across all of Sheffield and South Yorkshire the chance to join us for FREE music lessons and "Give it a Go" sessions on a variety of instruments.

Sign up for your FREE Lessons and/or Taster Sessions here!

On Saturday 11th October, 10am - 4pm we’ll be offering:

• FREE bespoke instrumental lessons with our expert teachers
• Brass, woodwind, and strings “Give it a Go” stalls where you can try out a variety of instruments
• FREE taster sessions, such as a choir taster session and Let's Make Music taster session for your youngest musicians (4 - 7)

Whether you're picking up an instrument for the first time or rediscovering your musical spark, this is your chance to get involved.

How to take part

We are offering FREE 20-minute instrumental lessons so that your young person can get a bespoke taste of what it is like to learn an instrument with one of our expert teachers. Please sign up for a lesson here.

We also have a selection of FREE taster sessions so that your young people can get a taste of learning music as part of a group.

• 10am - 10:45am Let's Make Music Taster Session (Ages 4-7)

Our Let’s Make Music group is a fun, informal music group. It is usually for 5–7-year-olds but for this session we are welcoming 4-7-year-olds so that your young person can get a taste of what it is like to be a part of the group. We enjoy games, sing songs, play percussion instruments and listen to music as well as creating our own.  This helps us to learn how to read rhythms and keep a steady pulse, how to read simple musical notes and how to play music in a group with others. All this will help us if we take up a musical instrument when we are older! Come and join our relaxed and friendly group and start a lifelong love of music!

• 1pm - 2pm Junior Voices Choir Taster Session (Years 2-5)

Led by Sarah Carroll and Jonathan Lazell, this fun, inclusive choir is perfect for younger singers to learn songs, make friends, and enjoy music.

Would you just like to turn up?

If your young person doesn't know what they would like to play, or would like to have a go on other instruments you can simply pop in to "Give it a Go". We will have stalls set up for these instruments: Clarinet, Drums, Flute, Oboe, Saxophone, Bassoon, Keyboard, Tuned Percussion, Cello, Violin, Cornet/Trumpet, Trombone, Euphonium and Tenor Horn.

To find RedTape please search Red Tape Central in google maps. Since the entrance is located on Shoreham street (a busy dual carriageway), it can be hard to find the way so please use this video to help you find the way in. Please don't search Red Tape Studios as this takes you to a different building further down the road. Full address below.

• Red Tape Central: 50 Shoreham St, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 4SP

About our partner Music for All

Music for All is a UK charity that aims to inspire and enable both new and returning music makers to enjoy the many benefits of making music. It connects music providers across the country—from community groups to music teachers—through shared celebration.

Music for All supports equal access to music making and provides grants and instruments to disadvantaged individuals, educators, and community projects throughout the year. The Learn to Play 2025 event is generously supported by the NAMM Foundation.