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The Best That You Can Be - A song for Derbyshire

Celebrate the enormous amount of music-making that takes place across Derbyshire by watching this specially commissioned song for Derbyshire.

Best-you-can-be--BLACK-SMALLOver 1,700 children and young people from 46 schools, 3 area music centres, 1,100 singers and 270 instrumentalists filmed across 32 locations… all with a single motivational message − to be the Best That You Can Be.

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The Derbyshire Music Education Hub brings you this specially commissioned song collaborating with Glossop-based composers Dan Whibley and James Manson.

School children suggested lyrics, the Derbyshire City & County Youth Orchestra and Youth Wind Band rehearsed and recorded the instrumentals and schools and music centres decided where they would like their performances to be filmed.


Song resources

Song resources, tracks and music are free and available to download to learn the song!

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