Ed Sheeran will embark on the European leg of his Mathematics Tour in 2025, but not before helping young musicians in schools across the UK.
Ed will begin his tour in May next year with his first stop in Spain. He will then visit France, Italy, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, Sweden and Denmark.
However the Perfect The hitmaker's first wish is to help children in schools after the government cut funding for music classes in state schools.
Explaining his plan to help fund music classes in schools, he said: “I started doing it in the county where I’m from and now we’ve moved to doing it nationally.”
“I am now visiting more high schools that really need funding for music and you can see the difference it makes,” he continued.
He shared how music was the only thing he was good at in school and how it saved him from feeling “stupid”: “I’m not an academic person; in the real world, I would be considered stupid.”
“But I excelled at music and that's why people think I'm good at something. I found it enormously helpful to be in a state-funded school that really encouraged that,” he added.
He concluded by saying: “They've basically cut funding for that in England, so I'm doing what I can to get funding. I think the new government will be better at that.”
