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Graham is a musician/ music leader/ trainer of extensive experience. He originally studied Law and worked for several years in a Law Centre specialising in Youth Crime and issues around policing. Since the early eighties however he has been a professional performing musician, touring the world, making records, drumming, writing and composing alongside many respected bands and artists. He currently runs a small record label and is  still an incredibly active performer/ composer.

He studied Music Workshop Skills at Goldsmiths College  in 1993 and since then he has been continually active as a deliverer of community music projects across a huge range of client groups – early years, KS2/3, people with a range of disabilities, “at risk” young people, teens and elders.

Delivery developed into project design and he has managed a huge number of community music projects across the country.

Over the last several years he has developed an extensive training portfolio delivering training for, amongst others, Music leader, Youth Music, Univs. of Limerick, Antrim, Hull, S. East Youth Music Action zone, and is seen as an expert in the use of music, especially with technology, to engage  people with disabilities,“ hard to reach” young people and those at risk of offending where his legal background has given him a unique perspective.

Recently he has run training courses In Behaviour Management, Songwriting, Understanding Music Genres, Leading drumming groups, Music Technology, Creative Groupwork and other areas. He has designed widely used accreditation modules for the Open College Network and AQA.

Graham has been teaching on the Goldsmiths CMWS course since 1998 and for the last four years has been the course director helping to maintain and develop its position as the pre-eminent training programme for community musicians in the country as well as designing modules for a new Community Arts MA.