In a Manchester studio, budding teenage artists are snapping their fingers and enthusing about how music has helped them through tough times.

They’re participating in a mentoring programme that will culminate in a live performance as part of the expanding Levi’s Music Project.

The jeans company is widening the reach of the scheme, which opened last year when it partnered with Skepta to launch a youth music studio in Tottenham, North London.

Last month, the Music Project came to Manchester’s ...