Youth Audience
Simon Mayor tours regularly with long-time partner Hilary James. The duo have worked extensively with young people in theatres and schools, and have written over fifty children's songs, many for their own Musical Mystery Tour children's CDs and the Musical Mystery Tour songbook published by Faber Music.
Their work had featured widely on the BBC. For six years they were regular hosts of BBC School Radio's The Song Tree. They also wrote for, and on occasion presented, BBC's Play School, The Listening Corner and Play Days. In addition, Mayor worked as mulit-instrumental session musician for other BBC radio programmes Singing Together, Music Workshop and Time and Tune.
Their songs have been used extensively in education, including English language teaching courses for Danish schoolchildren.
In 2011 Top That! Publishing published I'm A Parrot and Gobble! Gobble! Gobble!, two children's illustrated rhyming story books using the lyrics from two Mayor/James songs and with drawings by Hilary James.
Alongside their other websites they set up www.childrensmusic.co.uk in 1999.
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