Get comfortable...published at 12:14 British Summer Time 5 June 2015
Ben Maeder
west Cumbria reporter, BBC Radio Cumbria
How do you keep 15 ukulele players comfy in a quarry? Sit them on BBC sofas of course!
Summary
As it happened: Hadrian's Wall of Sound
Get comfortable...published at 12:14 British Summer Time 5 June 2015
Wall comes alive with musicpublished at 12:07 British Summer Time 5 June 2015
Hundreds of local musicians are travelling its 73-mile (117km) length using various modes of transport and passing a baton from performer to performer.
Image source, BBC News GrabThe event started at daybreak in Bowness-on-Solway in West Cumbria and will finish in Wallsend in North Tyneside, 14 hours later.
We'll bring you all the colour and spectacle as it happens. Find out who is playing where.
DJ Yoda mixes it up for BBC Music Daypublished at 12:00 British Summer Time 5 June 2015
It's not often you hear DJ Yoda on BBC Radio 4, but today is no ordinary day.
To celebrate BBC Music Day the hip hop turntablist has cut up some of Radio 4's best-loved theme tunes.
You can hear it by clicking here.
Ready to D'uke it outpublished at 11:55 British Summer Time 5 June 2015
The D'Ukes, external, pictured below, tell us they are looking forward to playing at Cawfield Quarry in Northumberland.
Image source, Brian BellIan K Brown, who is responsible for leading them, says there a relatively new ukulele group based in Castle Carrock in Cumbria and were formed as a result of workshops he delivered at the Music on the Marr festival last summer.
Opera singer all set for performancepublished at 11:46 British Summer Time 5 June 2015
North East opera signer Graeme Danby, who has performed all around the world, is excited about his involvement in today's event.
He will be at Cawfield Crag at 11:50.
He told BBC Newcastle's Anna Foster: "Music has been my life since I was five or six years old. It plays a massive part in my life and in the life of my students at the University of Sunderland. I want everybody to sing."
On their waypublished at 11:39 British Summer Time 5 June 2015
Rachel Kerr
BBC NewsIt's quite a sight and sound as the bikers roar off from Walltown Crags, external.
Baton handed overpublished at 11:35 British Summer Time 5 June 2015
Nell Dunn
BBC Radio CumbriaThe musical baton being passed to Susan Lambert on top of Walltown Crags.
Strings in the windpublished at 11:26 British Summer Time 5 June 2015
BBC NewcastleUnspeakably beautiful. Susan Lambert plays the clasarch next to Hadrian's Wall, external.
Watch where you stand!published at 11:20 British Summer Time 5 June 2015
BBC NewcastleMid-morning radio presenter Anna Foster, who is with the BBC Music Day Hadrian's Wall of Sound relay for today's programme, says: "We've got all sorts of music, it's such an exciting thing to be part of - even if I am standing in a cow pat!"
'Get your motor running'published at 11:15 British Summer Time 5 June 2015
Paul Wright and Jose Prado are just some of our team of bikers on Harley Davidsons who will be adding their own special musical flourish to BBC Music Day. They're ready at Walltown Crags for their turn with the baton. They'll carry it along to Cawfield Quarry in what should be a pretty impressive sight.
Image source, Paul Wright
Image source, Jose PradoUke-ant find a better viewpublished at 11:10 British Summer Time 5 June 2015
Ben Maeder
West Cumbria reporter, BBC Radio CumbriaThis is Cawfield Quarry, the performance space for the D'Ukes, a ukulele band from Castle Carrock.
Revving uppublished at 11:04 British Summer Time 5 June 2015
BBC NewcastleWe're at Walltown Crag with the Harley Owners Group, who will take the Hadrian's Wall of Sound baton to Cawfield Quarry soon for BBC Music Day.
Harpist ready to playpublished at 10:58 British Summer Time 5 June 2015
In while, Susan Lambert will be playing the clarsach, a Gaelic triangular wire-strung harp, at Walltown Crags on Hadrian's Wall, external.
Image source, Susan LambertCrossing the countiespublished at 10:50 British Summer Time 5 June 2015
Rachel Kerr
BBC NewsThe baton has now crossed the border from Cumbria into Northumberland at Gilsland.
Could there be a world record today?published at 10:43 British Summer Time 5 June 2015
It's not just Hadrian's Wall that is playing host to BBC Music Day.
In Cardiff, there will be a world record attempt as well as live performances from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and a homecoming show from Welsh band the Manic Street Preachers.
As part of celebrations marking 150 years since the first Welsh settlers left for Patagonia, Shan Cothi in Wales and Andres Evans, 7,000 miles away, will attempt to break the world record for the greatest distance between singers of a duet.
Image source, GoogleAnna and the wallpublished at 10:38 British Summer Time 5 June 2015
I'm live on Hadrian's Wall of Sound for BBC Music Day and the view is stunning. Listen live here.
'Melodeon and Northumbrian smallpipes'published at 10:35 British Summer Time 5 June 2015
As the Hadrian's Wall of Sound relay travels from Gilsland to Walltown Cragg, Frank Lee will play the melodeon with Cornelia Lee-Schrijver on the Northumbrian smallpipes. The melodeon, external, for the uninitiated, is a type of button accordion.
Image source, Cornelia Lee-Schrijver On his waypublished at 10:30 British Summer Time 5 June 2015
Accordion player Jim Walker leaves Birdoswold with the baton and is on his way to Gilsland where he'll meet up with a Northumbrian piper.
'Body percussion'published at 10:24 British Summer Time 5 June 2015
Rachel Kerr
BBC NewsHere's Prism Arts, external performing body percussion in the grounds of the Birdoswald fort for Hadrian's Wall of Sound:
Waking up to BBC Music Daypublished at 10:21 British Summer Time 5 June 2015
If you missed it earlier, BBC Breakfast featured sax player Roz Sluman getting today's musical relay under way at Bowness-on-Solway.
