Forsyth Publishing

We enjoyed a visit to the Booth Centre this week to donate ten brand new ukuleles to the charitable day centre that supports homeless people in Manchester. Helping homeless people through providing information, advice, opportunities & activities for building skills and confidence, the Booth Centre is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and was given Champion status by the department of Communities & Local Government in recognition of its pioneering work to reduce the number of rough sleepers in Manchester. Through its 3-year Arts Council funded drama partnership with The Edge arts centre in Chorlton, who have given ukulele workshops for customers at Forsyths, the Booth Centre hopes to create its own sustainable and self-managed theatre company run by The Edge’s representatives, Artistic Director Janine Waters and Musical Director Simon Waters. Simon approached us for help with sourcing affordable ukuleles for the charity, and we were more than happy to donate ten brand new instruments to the Centre. Booth Centre visitors can...

We\'re delighted to have discovered that talented young Japanese contemporary recorder player Hidehiro Nakamura has taken a bit of a shine to our publishing department\'s recorder catalogue. Here\'s the latest in a series of his YouTube posts of performances of our pieces for you to enjoy.A Short Sprint was written specially for Hidehiro by our recorder editor John Turner and is now available from our Sheet Music department here.