rock maestro Jilly St John adds support the Take it away scheme

Hitting the right note. Jilly St John local musician and frontwoman for rock band Wyldling adds her support to Arts Council of Northern Irelands Take it away scheme. Take it away makes purchasing musical instruments and equipment more affordable and accessible by offering 0% interest free loans spreadable over a number of month. Find out more at www.takeitaway.org.uk Catch Wyldling at Glasgowbury music festival 19-20 July.

Take it away, through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, spreads the cost of buying a musical instrument via interest free loans and is available to anyone over the age of 18 in Northern Ireland who wants to buy the musical instrument of their dreams.

Take it away (Northern Ireland) is available at registered member retailers only, including Henderson Music Derry/Londonderry.

To find out more visit www.artscouncil-ni.org/Takeitaway .

The cost of a new musical instrument is spread over a very affordable 10 months and with summer now in full swing, there’s no better time to get playing.

The range of musical instruments that you can buy with the scheme is vast; from guitars, keyboards and violins, to pianos, saxophones and banjos, as well as instrument cases, amplifiers, strings, reeds, sheet music and delivery or set-up charges.

Commending the scheme Jilly said: “Take it away is a fantastic scheme enabling our artists of tomorrow. Getting started as a musician can be an expensive business, not least of all the purchase of instruments. Thanks to this scheme, aspiring musicians, who may under normal circumstances rule out music based on this hurdle alone, are one step closer to their vision. The gift to be able to create art and music should be accessible to everyone regardless of background.”