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Suffolk Soundwaves is a music project that has been running for the past eight years, it helps to promote local artists who write and perform their own music.  It offers workshops in pop and rock, music tech and dj-ing, run by a team of dedicated professional tutors and puts on gigs to showcase the best local talent. The scheme operates throughout the Suffolk Costal area from Halesworth right down to Felixstowe and across to Martlesham.

Suffolk Soundwaves organised an Ultimate Band Contest at Framlingham College which took place on 21 October.

Artists that performed: Rosie & Emily, The Farthings, Rogues Cradle, Lucy Sampson, Timothy Leat Rogues, FLiCKER, Eva Edwards, Joe Nickson and Never Ending Lights. Dirt Addiction were also selected as finalists but were unable to play on the night.

The competition was open to any artist living the Suffolk Coastal district, aged between 13 and 26, or bands with at least one member living in the district. All entrants had to be unsigned and had to have three original songs they have written.

The winner's prize includes a day in a recording studio, music industry masterclasses, and £250 cash. The second place prize was £150 and third place £100.

I went down to Framlingham College to find out what the competition was all about and who would be crowned  the winner of the Ultimate Band Contest 2011.

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Chloe Duckett

Discovering Opera presented by Cristina Burns.

The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The Magic Flute is an opera in two acts composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue.

During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night to rescue her daughter Pamina from the clutches of the supposedly evil Sarastro. But all is not as it seems.

Copyright. A BoMoJo Production for Deben Radio CIC

Leaving home and moving to university can be a very daunting experience! It’s probably the first time you have to cook for yourself, the first time you have to wash your own clothes and the first time you know nobody.

When I went to university, I was terrified! I searched online before I went trying to find useful tips that would help me get through the first three months. I didn’t know what to expect but was determined to make the most of uni. So to make sure you don’t make the same mistakes as I did, I have decided to create the indispensable guide for first year students, for my debut programme on Deben Radio.

Hopefully you will find some of the things I say useful!