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In Leicester, England, the Unglamorous Music Project aims to get older women, in their sixties and seventies, into playing music. They have 66 days to learn an instrument, write a song and perform in public.

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<p>In Leicester, England, the Unglamorous Music Project aims to get older women, in their sixties and seventies, into playing music. They have 66 days to learn an instrument, write a song and perform in public.</p>

In Leicester, England, the Unglamorous Music Project aims to get older women, in their sixties and seventies, into playing music.

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