Welcome to the DRMC

This is the home page of the Dandenong Ranges Music Council Incorporated, an arts organisation located in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, east of Melbourne. The DRMC has been funding, facilitating and teaching community music for over thirty years. The Dandenong Ranges Music Council Inc. is assisted by the Australia Council, the Federal Government's Arts funding and advisory body, Arts Victoria and the Yarra Ranges Council.

DRMC Chairman Norma Durrand says:

Community music is for everyone, beginner to professional.
It enriches our lives and gives us opportunities locally to sing, play, perform, jam, create and listen


Jungle Party with Attitude

The DRMC will host the Attitude JUNGLE PARTY on Wednesday September 8t

from noon till 3pm.  Entry is FREE

Special guests and instruments to play along.

Click here for details

State Trustees Community Grants Program

The DRMC is thrilled to have been awarded a grant to create music opportunities for people of all abilities.

Click here to view cheque presentation


Victorian Opera / Australian Academy of Music Project

DRMC and the Victorian Opera, in collaboration with the Australian National Academy of Music, will offer a participatory music education program with professional musicians to primary school aged children in the Dandenong Ranges. The program consists of two parts – an incursion into schools with a 90 minute, interactive workshop with singers and musicians and an excursion into Melbourne for children to participate in an open rehearsal at Horti Hall home of Victorian Opera. Richard Gill, one of Australia’s leading Music Educators and the Music Director of VO will lead the project, mentoring VO’s Developing Artists and students from ANAM in music education processes that promote participation and engagement.

The project has grown out of the DRMC’s 2009 Hillsongs project where Richard Gill worked with 10 schools each creating a song for performance in collaboration with DRMC. Richard Gill has initiated this project to continue the relationship with the students from the Dandenong Ranges and offer excellent music education experiences with professional artists. It is important to Richard Gill that the music in the workshops is challenging and different to that experienced by the students in their daily lives, that it will extend their understanding of music.

Schools involved in this project: Monbulk P.S., Kallista P.S., The Patch P.S., Upwey P.S., Upper Ferntree Gully P.S. and Heany Park P.S.

VO Workshops: Friday 23 July, Tuesday 27 July and Thursday 29 July

ANAM Workshops: Tuesday 7 September

Horti Hall Excursion: Monday 16 August


MCA Award

Click here to read about the Music Council of Australia's award for the DRMC under the category, "Best all round program"

Resound Bushfire Musical Instrument Replacement Appeal

Resound wholeheartedly thanks donors and volunteers to date for their generous donations, help and support.

Click here to read about the Music Council of Australia's "Resound" program, in partnership with the Dandenong Ranges Music Council.

If you have lost an instrument in the fires, or would like to make a donation, click on the link above to find out what to do.

Click here to read articles about the Music Council of Australia's Resound" program in partnership with the Dandenong Ranges Music Council.Click here to read the Resound Report.

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