Editor

Our young people’s musical education has taken a hammering from Covid, coming on top of Ceredigion Council’s devastating 2019 cuts to its Music Service.

Musicians Union research found that over 40 per cent of those from low-income families say music lessons are beyond their household budgets and are mainly for the privileged few.

Anyone concerned about equality of access to a good musical education can take heart from Welsh Labour’s manifesto promise to “Establish a National Music Service to make sure that a lack of money is no barrier to young people learning to play an instrument".

I shall vote Welsh Labour, with a song in my heart.

John Egan Clarach

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