Baltic Powers the Northern Music Awards 2025

Stephen Jenson

Baltic loved working on the The Northern Music Awards this week. The group labored arduous to setup a 10Gbps momentary leased line web connection for the Nordoff-Robbins Music Remedy charity, held within the Liverpool Olympia.

Our customized system offered excessive density WiFi for lots of of tourists, streaming, crew and different backend providers.

Liverpool was chosen because the host metropolis resulting from its unbelievable musical pedigree. Not restricted to the fab 4, the town has produced primary singles in each decade for the reason that Nineteen Fifties and performed host to the Eurovision Tune Contest in 2022. Liverpool is internationally recognised as the house of unbelievable artists and was designated a UNESCO Metropolis of Music in 2015.

Liverpool Olympia celebrated its a hundred and twentieth yr anniversary in 2025, having opened in 1905 as a purpose-built indoor circus and selection theatre by famend architect Frank Matcham. The venue enjoys a wealthy historical past inside the performing arts, having hosted a wide range of theatrical and music productions, with performers as various as Harry Houdini and The Beatles.

Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool metropolis area, stated: “I’m extremely proud that Liverpool has been chosen to host the 2025 Northern Music Awards. Our metropolis’s musical heritage is understood all over the world, and this occasion might be a becoming celebration of the North’s unbelievable expertise, previous, current, and future.

“From the Beatles to an unforgettable Eurovision, music is within the lifeblood of this metropolis. It’s an enormous a part of how we join, rejoice, and categorical ourselves. And with Nordoff and Robbins utilizing the facility of music to rework lives, it’s becoming that this occasion will assist fund music remedy providers for many who want it most in our communities.

“Liverpool is aware of the right way to throw a celebration, and I’m wanting ahead to an evening that showcases the most effective of our area’s artistic expertise whereas supporting a trigger that makes an actual distinction to individuals’s lives.”

Nordoff and Robbins supplies important music remedy for these residing with dementia, autism, studying difficulties, mind accidents, life-limiting sicknesses, psychological well being points, grief and trauma. The North of England is our largest service space, with 58 music therapists and 118 companion organisations offering 20,000 periods of significant music remedy: remodeling the lives of greater than 5,400 individuals within the area.

Sandra Schembri, CEO, Nordoff and Robbins, stated: “We’re extremely excited that Liverpool would be the subsequent host of the Northern Music Awards. The town has as wealthy a music historical past as wherever on the earth so it’s an ideal place to rejoice the North’s distinctive musical expertise. Not solely are we honouring the individuals who make up the eclectic music ecosystem, however we’re elevating important funds to proceed our music remedy work in Liverpool and throughout the North.

“We depend on these occasions, and the generosity and assist of the music trade, to have the ability to provide extra periods to extra individuals. Day by day our music therapists go to individuals throughout the North of England – in care properties, in hospitals and in colleges, and use the facility of music to create collectively a brand new language of human connections. Whether or not it’s unlocking reminiscences for a mum with dementia or introducing a toddler with studying difficulties to the thrill and company of enjoying the piano, music remedy actually adjustments lives.”