library, world-music, asylum, refugee, musicians, community support 

project leader

BBC Leicester, Farside Music

city

Leicester

country

Leicestershire UK

year

2002 - ongoing

kind of project

library

kind of actor

public administration

area

arte

info

leicester@bbc.co.uk

partner institution

Farside Music

more info

The “Instrument library” in Leicester, UK, receives unwanted musical instruments from the local population and, serving as the ‘middle-man’, makes these available so they can be borrowed by asylum seeking and refugee musicians based in the region, allowing musicians to continue their art and enhancing the local music scene