Re-Play Music

Promoting Instrument Recycling and Musical Education

What we do.

Re-Pair

             The obvious function of Re-Play Music is the recycling of musical instruments and this function is currently being filled on a strictly volunteer basis.  Donations of broken instruments are received at  Surrey Strings at Merton Abbey Mills and repaired at the Re-Play workshop in Morden.  Volunteers range from working luthiers around South London to students and teachers on the violin making course at Merton College.  We are always looking for volunteer guitar and violin repairers.

Re-Use

             With the donation and repair of instruments came the obvious next function of Re-Play Music which is musical education.  With the help of the Abbey Music School of South London, Re-Play music has put together a traveling music school that offers free lessons and workshops with qualified teachers of many disciplines from violin, cello, and guitar, to ukulele, harmonica, and hand percussion.  The Re-Play traveling music school has been providing free lessons for kids in the Glastonbury Kidz Field for 5 years and has been able to distribute 250 repaired instruments to promising new students through these workshops all free of charge.

Re-Play Music Festival

             In April of 2007, Re-Play Music became a festival and a cause for professional, amateur, and youth bands to support.  The obvious next step for an organization dedicated to planting an interest in music into the hearts of the young and old alike would be to facilitate an outlet for the songs they write.  The first annual Re-Play Music Festival took place over 3 days, in 7 venues, and with 120 bands. 300 broken or unwanted instruments were collected during the run-up and the musicians who came together to support this cause ranged in age from 12 to 65 in genres as diverse as Country to Heavy Metal to Spoken Word Poetry, from weekend warrior to road hardened professional musicians.  This first festival drew interest from all over London and the music industry and with its success a second festival was organized in North Wales to coincide with the launch of Re-Play Music CYMRU.