Our Past, Our Future

Our Past, Our Future was a 2024 partnership programme, between We Make Culture’s Young Musicians Project and English Heritage’s Youth Engagement Programme ‘Shout Out Loud’. 

Young Musician Project members toured four English Heritage sites - Hylton Castle, Belsay Hall, Tynemouth Priory and Finchale Priory - sampling sounds and using places as inspiration for songwriting and music-making with established regional musicians such as The Lake Poets, Me Lost Me, and many more.  

During summer 2024, they worked in Field Music studio to record their songs, which can be listened to below. They also filmed live videos of song performances at Belsay Hall and presented the songs at the Gateways to Heritage conference in York.  

Our Past, Our Future was supported by the English Heritage and Shout Out Loud.