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Welcome to the new series of articles that we’ll be publishing over the next few months that illustrate to you the rich heritage of the County of Derbyshire and the City of Derby.

In the first in the Derbyshire Heritage series we profiled Musicians through the ages with Derbyshire and Derby City associations.   Derbyshire is a vibrant county and is home to many fantastic contemporary musicians, so it will perhaps be no surprise to read that some of the greatest (and the ridiculously famous!) musicians have composed, taken inspiration from or have heralded from the County.  

The second article covered film, TV and actors.  Derbyshire is a beautiful county and so it is a natural choice for International film-makers as a location for big mainstream films and TV series alike.  Derbyshire is also the birth place of many actors and some of film and television’s great stars have chosen to live within the County. 

• Derbyshire Heritage: Music and Musicians
• • Derbyshire Heritage Musicians Google Map
  • Contemporary artsderbyshire artists and organisations in the Music industry 
• Derbyshire Heritage: Film, TV and actors
• • Derbyshire Heritage Google Film Map
  • Contemporary artsderbyshire filmmakers, scriptwriters, actors and organisations in the Film industry 
• Derbyshire Heritage: Places
• • Derbyshire Heritage Google Map of Places  
  • Opening dates and times of stately homes, mansions and museums  in the County
• Derbyshire Heritage : Dance
• • Contemporary artsderbyshire dancers, dance practitioners, groups and organisations in the Dance industry.

Get involved!

If you have information that we haven’t included, then let us know!  Similarly, if you consider yourself the expert on a particular subject, or you simply fancy writing up and getting published some information for this series, then let us know.

Email us at: dap@artsderbyshire.org.uk

Other Heritage articles to come in this series;

• Artists
• Writers
• Festivals
• Well Dressings
• People

About the authors

The Derbyshire Heritage range of articles has been written by Essential New Media's Deborah Porter and Sharon Stevens-Cash.   Essential New Media was appointed by the Derbyshire Arts Partnership to produce an editorial and marketing strategy for the website of which this range of articles is a part.  

Based in North Derbyshire, Deborah is an online specialist providing marketing, editorial and creative leadership.  She has enjoyed a long association in developing the artsderbyshire website and has also worked with a number of arts organisations in the region including City Arts, Nottingham, EMARAN and Smith of Derby. 

Located in South Derbyshire, Sharon specialises in offline marketing and works with a range of companies in the region including Marketing Derby, Blueprint and Derby Cityscape.  She has recently worked on marketing the launch of the newly opened digital arts centre Phoenix Square in Leicester.

If you are interested in getting involved in 2010's editorial or marketing plans, then get in touch with us via dap@artsderbyshire.org.uk

Acknowledgements
Many thanks to Deborah Porter, Bygonederbyshire, Sharon Stevens-Cash, Carole Crompton, Peak and Fell Walking, The Derby Local Studies Library and Robert Steadman for picture contributions to this series.