A MUSICAL museum tour will pair woodwind with woolly rhinos when it sets off in Sheffield on Sunday.
The unlikely partnership will be made at Weston Park Museum, which has just scooped The Guardian's Family Friendly Museum Award, when it hosts a Music in the Community Day featuring members of Ensemble 360.
Clarinettist Matthew Hunt will be playin
g next to the museum's Woolly Rhino as the musicians take the audience on a tour of the site.
The event runs from 11am-3pm and is aimed at all the family. It will feature informal performances, interactive workshop activities and improvisation sessions, led by Ensemble 360 and musicians from Sheffield's Music In The Round May Festival.
It will celebrate the silver theme of the May Festival.
A festival spokesman said: "The audience can explore Arctic music with Snowy the polar bear, create their own silver piece of music in the Space Age exhibition and discover 999 years of music in the History Lab."
The What on Earth! display space features music from Carnival of the Animals, Flight of the Bumblebee, Berio's Opus No. Zoo and Arnold's Sea Shanties.
And in the Sheffield Life and Times room, performances will be given by local young musicians including Sheffield Young Singers, Sheffield Music Service's Rivelin Orchestra and Highly Strung.
Entry is free. For more information contact Polly Ives on 0114 281 4660 or email
polly@musicintheround.co.uk.The May Festival: Silver – Best of the Fests runs May 9-17. Ensemble 360 and Friends will perform 15 concerts and give three talks at the Upper Chapel, Norfolk Street.
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