Dirty Old Town is an exciting new youth project for the Sixth Salford Film Festival combing live music and film. Produced by
CDH Creatives working with the BBC Philharmonic and Rawchestra this new orchestra is made up of a combination of traditional orchestral instrumentalists, drummers and percussionists, guitarists, keyboard players, singers and any body else that turns up, to create a totally new performance repertoire in response to young peoples films and vision of Salford.
The project takes inspiration from the iconic song “Dirty Old Town”, written in 1949 by one of Salfords most famous sons, Ewan MacColl about Salford and its industrial landscape. 
Like much of today’s music it was a social commentary of its time and will act as a starting point for the Rawchestra to create a soundtrack that will work alongside a series of contemporary moving images of Salford, that will be created by young people.
The final piece will be performed live at a TBC venue in sync with the final edit of the film on the 22nd of November 2009.
