College Creatives on Track for Tramlines

Creative arts students from Doncaster College will be taking part in the Tramlines Festival due to take place in Sheffield later this month.

Music and photography learners will be showing off their respective talents to the vast crowds anticipated at this year’s event. Last year saw 150,000 fans congregate in Sheffield across the three days of the musical and arts extravaganza.

Doing it for real, that’s part of the ethos of many courses at Doncaster College, and playing live and showing work at Tramlines will certainly be authentic for our students.

It’s a much bigger event than they are used to but as Ian Latham, Assistant Director for Creative Industries at the College points out ‘At the College we put on vocational courses to prepare students for the world of work, so creating a realistic working environment for the learners to work in is essential..…What could be more realistic than playing live in front of a big audience or displaying work at a huge event like Tramlines.

Three bands, made up of students from the BTEC National Diploma in Music, will be performing live at the showcase area near the Peace Gardens. They are a four piece band, called 'Stav-X' who play progressive rock interwoven with elements of middle eastern music and two five-piece bands 'Rocksity' and ‘Faultless.’ ‘Rocksity’ play classic rock and metal and ‘Faultless’ fuse euphoric rock with elements of Electronica.

Previously, they have all performed live at venues in and around Doncaster, including on a boat, for their assessments at College,

Art students will be getting in on the act as well. There will be an exhibition of photography produced by the National Diploma year two students comprising of their end of year show, which highlights many of their skills and talents. Students Rebecca Hickman and Rebecca Thompson, who have just finished the course and are progressing to onto University, have curated this for Tramlines.