Fredlin Morency is the 18-year-old singer, songwriter, musician, composer, musical director and choir director is currently taking Leeds by storm.

The landmark Leeds rehearsal space, recording studio and community hub Old Chapel Music has announced its first ever Crowdfunder campaign, in response to an unprecedented rise in rental costs. The Crowdfunder campaign, formally launched on Sunday 23rd July, managed to raise over £1,200 in its first 24 hours - but the CIC is hoping to encourage more donations in the coming days, in service of reaching a £9,000 funding goal.

The children of award-winning LS18 Rocks have taken inspiration from the classic 1972 Leeds United smash Marching On Together to write and record their very own song entitled Marching On.



In recent weeks they have been working with sporting groups and youth organisations in the city to showcase the song and teach participants the chorus which is already being praised as “the catchiest thing you will hear all year”.

Embrace drummer Mike Heaton will be the special guest on Sunday 28 May when Old Chapel Music Studios in Leeds open its doors for the latest round of free public tours.    

The historic venue launched the initiative in November 2022 and will continue to host monthly tours until February 2024. 

As well as playing a key part in the stories of some of the city’s best known bands including the Kaiser Chiefs, Embrace, and Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Old Chapel Music CIC - a not for profit community interest company which manages the studios in Holbeck - supports young people, up-and-coming artists and community groups, giving them access to the same facilities as established bands.

Residents since 1997 when as teenagers they were known as Parva, the Kaiser Chiefs still rehearse at Old Chapel Music Studios and have their own room in the extension they helped to fund in 2013.

Legendary American folk singer Judy Collins is touring right now, which, at 82 would be impressive enough, but she also tells me she’s working on a new album. She is a pioneer singer song writer, and is playing our own Leeds City Varieties on Saturday 12th November.

We have a lot of people to thank for helping us put on some of the best jazz around - and to pick up a couple of jazz awards along the way! We'll be celebrating at the Chapel Allerton Arts Festival on 1st - 4th September with four jazz events to choose from.

The focus is on FUN – we have jazz and dance, jazz and silent movies, the best contemporary music and an open-air Jazz Sunday for all the family. 

Let the good times roll!

Leeds label and development organisation Come Play With Me have reopened submissions to artists, aiming to platform a new selection of artists and bands as part of their mission to showcase, support and develop the incredible emerging talent across the region. The call out is the latest in their search for exciting new releases from the Yorkshire region. 

Do you play/create music and find yourself going back to the same rhythms and sounds? Are you looking to shake things up? Come and join me for a visually immersive experimental sound session with people from randomly different styles and genres.

This will be the first session for a larger project I'm developing called Collaborative Audio-Visual Experimentation Sessions (CAVE sessions). Creative sessions where people come together to explore sound in a visually stimulating space.