Lullaby

Operasonic has partnered with the Weill Institute at Carnegie Hall, New York to bring the Lullaby project to Wales!

Lullaby creates a space where parents can celebrate their children and make a musical gift that can be treasured into the future. Operasonic artists have been trained in New York with the team at Carnegie Hall, and now we are actively making lullaby projects in Newport and beyond. Here are some of our recent projects.

2024/25

Community House 2025: We are working with Bundles at Community House on Eton Road (NP19 0BL) to deliver the project, open to all new parents living in Newport and surrounding areas. The sessions will run for 10 weeks from 17th January, 11am-1pm. Free to access and join in, free tea/coffee, a chance to meet new parents and, of course, write your very own lullaby. Drop in and say hi!

The Place 2024: We brought six weeks of music making fun to The Place in Newport City Centre in November/December 2025. 11am-1pm on 8 November, 15 November, 22 November, 29 November, 6 December & 13 December.

2023 Silent Lullabies

Across 2023 and early 2024, the Operasonic team was funded to explore how to create lullabies with Deaf parents and children. This project was a really exciting journey and brought together a very skilled team of artists from the hearing and the Deaf community. 

Artist team: Ruth Montgomery, Alicia Wiseman, Helen Woods, Deepa Shastri, Emma Corby, Beth House, Yasmine Davies.

Watch our Silent Lullabies Project Overview film on our You Tube Channel.

Funded by Anthem, Arts Council Wales, Community Foundation Wales and Ty Cerdd and supported by Carnegie Hall.

2023 Newport Lullaby

We wrote lullabies with a group in Newport at Community House in Autumn 2023.

Artist Team: Alicia Wiseman, Emma Jones, Alex Jones, Ellie Strong, Laura Brown, Yasmine Davies.

Here are the beautiful songs created with participants Alex and Saraj, with music direction by Yasmine Davies.

Alex's Lullaby

Saraj's Lullaby

Funded by Newport Endowment Fund, Fund for Wales, Arnold Clark and Magic Little Grants.

2022 Cardiff Lullaby

This project was supported by Arts Active and saw us work with 4 community groups across Cardiff. We placed professional musicians with groups of parents and bubbas, ands they worked over 5 weeks to write their very own song for their baby. This project supports family wellbeing and bonding, and helps connects parents, especially new mums, to networks of other new parents.

Artist team: Amruta Garud, Ashley John Long, Yasmine Davies, Stacey Blythe.

Have a listen to the Lullabies we wrote on our Soundcloud page 

Funded by Arts Active as part of the Summer of Smiles. 

2019 Ferndale Community Hub

In Autumn 2019, the first Lullaby Project took place at the Ferndale Community Hub in partnership with Artis Community, Rhondda Cynon Taf Council and the Fern Partnership.

Artist team: Helen Woods, Ashley John Long. 

You can hear the recordings of the final lullabies on the Operasonic Soundcloud site and watch the sharing performances on the Operasonic You Tube Channel.