A Musical Legacy
All Youth Music dedications create a lasting legacy of music-making opportunities across the country. We are deeply grateful to family and friends who choose to support Youth Music in this way.
This page commemorates the lives of all those special people who understood the power of music-making. Share their passion and help us transform more young lives through music.
This page commemorates the lives of all those special people who understood the power of music-making. Share their passion and help us transform more young lives through music.
Recent Dedications (72 tributes)
Shaun’s musical career started at the age of 6. At school he learned both the flugel and tenor horns to a level that took him to the National Brass Band final at the Royal Albert Hall London by the age of 10.
Freddie Wells was born on 28 March 1932 in Primrose Hill, London, where he grew up. Fred was bombed out by the Luftwaffe and evacuated to St.Albans during the Second World War.
Philip Cunningham was a much loved and respected teacher and musician in Shropshire. He sang with Clungunford Choir; taught flute, clarinet and oboe; and for more than a decade played clarinet with North Wales Symphony Orchestra and occasionally with Ludlow Orchestra.
Dave Hill or Dave Saunders or Rudi whatever name you knew him by sadly passed away on 10 February 2013.
Dave has been part of the fabric of the music scene in Portsmouth for as long that anyone cares can remember. He was into everything, all styles with a genuine interest from idea to completion.
Mark Johnston, my husband and soul mate, died suddenly on February 11 2012 aged 37 years. He left us behind - his beloved young daughter Beatrice and me, his sister, parents, his adoring family-in-law, nephews and nieces, friends and colleagues. He enhanced every life that he touched.
Mark was a one-off.
John left behind two legacies.
The first was love he had for his daughter Alex, grandson Ashton, his Mum and Dad and his brother and sister as well as a massive amount of friends.
His other great love was music.
When Rob moved to London in his early twenties, he decided to specialise in the bass guitar and he responded to an ad to join a band. The group fronted by lead singer Bianca Denham eventually decided on the name Hansom Pilot and began writing their own music.
The band began playing gigs around London, attracting a regular fanbase.
Chris was best known for playing guitar and being co-songwriter with Bury St Edmunds based garage band Thee Vicars. He'd previously played with psychedelic band Generation of Swine and was a member of Thee Vicars' side-project, The Wailin' Yeahs.
Bay to his mates, ‘Dan the Man’ to his family and DJ Blitz in his heart.
"Kerri-Ann (aka Kezza) was one of those people who always put others first. A beautiful soul: she was kind, selfless, fun-loving, and always had a smile for others no matter what she was going through.
"She absolutely loved music, science, her family and friends and she had a wicked sense of humour that often seemed to come out of nowhere!
Matt Singh passed away on 9 July 2012, aged 48. He was extremely passionate about music; producing and writing his own music under the name Indus Warrior.
His daughters Nadisha and Janine explain that Youth Music would be close to his heart, as music was his life.
Miles (also known as Milo) was born on 14 February 1987.
His untimely death on 22 April 2012 was a day when a huge light went out in the world.
His love of music was immense, it was something he so enjoyed and was something he was really good at and it gave him hours of immense pleasure.
If you knew Matt even just a little bit you knew he loved and hated music.
He was opinionated and knew what he liked and that just shows how passionate he was. He was sloppy on the guitar, shocking at singing, but he was truly talented on the drums.
He could play anything, and as with most drummers he loved playing loud and fast.
Derek was born in 1922 in Nottingham and brought up in an era where singing songs around the piano on Sunday evening was a common family occurrence.
Encouraged by his mother he learnt to play the piano and joined the church choir, eventually singing at St. Mary’s Church, Nottingham.
Craig Allnutt spent the last 20 years designing and operating lights for bands and artists. He contributed to putting on many performances over the years and loved the music and people that he worked with.
Mike was born on 19th December 1944 on a farm near Grantham. He was always interested in literature, art and music. In 1963 he began at Bretton Hall College as an English student where he met his wife Shirley.
It was at Bretton that his passion for recording music developed.
Professor Noel Sheehy, a psychologist at Liverpool John Moores University was a highly respected member of the UK psychology community.
Matthew – known to his friends as Matt - grew up in Oxford, moving to Harrogate in 2010. He passed away on June 19th 2011, aged 23.
A gifted alto sax and keyboard player, Matt was into music from a very early age. His wide ranging taste was obvious from early on and he embraced everyone from Bach to Charlie Parker.
Win Stockwell loved music and was a talented singer and pianist.
In the 1940’s and 1950’s she sang in the renowned Huddersfield Choral Society and was a member when they sang at the opening of the Royal Festival Hall in 1951 and also at the Edinburgh Festival of the same year.
After a terrible accident as a teenager, Sean was handed a guitar to help him recover in hospital. He soon realized that his love was with the bass guitar.
After many hours listening to songs and practising, he joined his first band at the age of 16 in Kildare, Ireland.
Paul Gartland was a talented trumpet player who very sadly passed away on 23rd February 2011 at the age of 49. During his musical career he played with several bands at many locations, mainly around London and the South East.
His early performances as a teenager were with Jazz Bands, his first of which was with ‘The 1066 Jazz Band’.
Pete Nash was a highly talented and well-known musician born in the East End of London.
He started playing in the early 60s, right at the start of the British Blues boom. He later joined the band of Steve Marriott, playing with the likes of Jimmy Reed & Sonny Boy Williamson, but turned down the chance of joining the Small Faces.
Philip, known affectionately as ‘Bob’, grew up in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, with his sisters Beccy and Emily, and his parents Ceri and Richard.
Doug Flack passed away in 2006. Doug had a passion for music and was always interested in encouraging people to play. He spent many hours of his own time teaching drums to anyone who wanted to learn and never charged a single penny!