Delia Derbyshire Day

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Delia Derbyshire Day A Manchester based organisation promoting the education and art of electronic music via the archive and works of Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001).

Delia Derbyshire Day is an electronic music charity honouring the work and legacy of electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001). We offer new art and educational opportunities inspired by The Delia Derbyshire Archive at John Rylands Library, Manchester. Our board of trustees include friends and colleagues of Delia and the Delia Derbyshire Estate.

28/09/2026

📣 MCR people! 📣 For Delia Derbyshire Day 2026, we're having a relaxed low key, no budget get together at Manchester Central Library. Join us for nerdy chat and check out the new recording booth and production suite in the Henry Watson Music Library. More info coming soon...

24/09/2026

??Did you know??
Delia Derbyshire continued making music after leaving the BBC in 1973. For example, she worked on Madelon Hooykaas and Elsa Stansfield making films. She was also involved with the amazing Li Yuan-Chia Foundation in Cumbria, an art gallery and creative community space near Hadrian's Wall.

Our wonderful team of volunteers from our 2025 10th anniversary project recorded these factoids about Delia for us to share with you. And for our podcast series - look up Delia Derbyshire Day on your favourite podcast platform 🙂 The volunteers and the podcast series production were gratefully supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

18/09/2026

Our work in primary schools: We have been focusing on developing our primary school education work this year, as we try to take our Big Give supported Electronic Music Education Needs Analysis from 2025 to the next stage. More news on this coming soon...
We love it when children get to practice our values in our music-making workshops in schools. It's all about creativity, curiosity, collaboration and openness while learning technical and other skills.

04/09/2026

🎶 The education episode 🎶 with Zolatec, Mandy Wigby of Architects Of Rosslyn & Caro C unpacking how and why we facilitate learning to make music the way, inspired by the heritage of .

Listen on all podcast platforms.

Image design by Andrea Pazos.

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30/07/2026

Did you know? Delia Derbyshire has a building named after her at Coventry University. Some recognition for a "working class girl from Coventry" (Delia's words).

Our wonderful team of volunteers from our 2025 10th anniversary project recorded these factoids about Delia for us to share with you. And for our podcast series - look up Delia Derbyshire Day on your favourite podcast platform :) The volunteers and the podcast series production were gratefully supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

🛒 Check out our new look shop! 🛒https://deliaderbyshireday.com/shop/We have a humble selection of gifts for you and othe...
22/07/2026

🛒 Check out our new look shop! 🛒
https://deliaderbyshireday.com/shop/
We have a humble selection of gifts for you and others.
All proceeds go to help with our annual costs and activities. Please contact us for overseas shipping costs.

08/06/2026

"Delia is an inspiration!" - Does Delia inspire you?
"We shouldn't be afraid of pushing boundaries and seeing what we can explore creatively."
Composer and electronic music teacher/facilitiator Emma Margetson talks about Delia as she led some workshops for us at Spirit Studios for adults wanting to learn more about Delia's working methods.

22/05/2026

Hello there, have you checked out our Delia Derbyshire Day podcast? Here’s our 2025 volunteer Charlie asking Mark Ayres about the types of material in the at John Rylands Library
🔊🔊 you can listen to the 5 episodes, only 30 mins each, on your favourite podcast platform. Made possible thanks to support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund

13/05/2026

Did You Know...?

Featuring the voices of our brilliant 2025 volunteer team, sharing factoids about the late great Delia Derbyshire.

Jae says "Delia created electronic music before samplers, computers, synths and mixing desks were widely available."

Like many who were making music at that time, Delia used inventiveness and workarounds. Dick Mills, who worked with Delia says "necessity was the mother of invention."

This series is inspired by a Did You Know series produced by our wonderful social media volunteer from 2020/2021 Ste Whiley - thank you Ste!

What's your favourite Delia fact? Have you got a fun Delia factoid?

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