Music Education Providers in Ennis

Here is a round up of music education providers in Ennis . It si by no means comprehensive but give some ideas for routes into playing a musical instrument .

Ennis Brass Band offer free tuition and instrument loan  in return for regular commitment. Classes run on Thursday evenings in Band Room at Ennis Community College.   www.ennisbrassband.com 

Traditional fiddle classes  run on Thursdays and Saturdays  at Cois na hAbhna with Damien O Reilly and Brendan Larissey

 http://www.coisnahabhna.ie/    for more details

Summer Music in Galway   Youth Opera Programme offered in Ennis for three week period beginning 25^th July for children of all ages who enjoy singingwww.summermusicingalway.com

Custy’s Music offer tuition in traditional Irish instruments  in small groups at their town centre premises.  www.custysmusic.com  Good information point for sourcing local teachers.  

Clare Music Makers   Bank Place  Tuition in many instruments . Tuition  is mostly on a one to one basis  and a range of ensembles are offered.

 Email  claremusicmakers@eircom.net

Maoin Cheoil an

Chláir  College Rd.

Tuition in range of instruments  including some traditional instruments.  Tuition on one to one basis. http://www.maoincheoil.com/

Ennis Guitar School Mike Varden  offers  individual and group tuition at the premises in Elevation Park Business School and in many schools including Ennis NS www.ennisguitarschool.com

FlashMob Final Day Fun

Flashmob Fun 1 Ms McMahons class at Cathedral

Well ! What an exciting and energetic day we had today as the beginners module of Swinging Strings programme came to a close for this year . There is nothing like live music so we took our newly acquired strings skills on to the streets of Ennis  to add to the soundscape  and the busking scene of the Clare county town today.

Venue 1 Ms McMahon and class took up their positions outside the Cathedral . There was lots of room and we loved the square paving stones . Among the audience was Fiona Walsh of Ennis Gospel Choir  and her lovely little dog .

Venue 2 The rain held off as Mr Blake and his class took up position in Barrack Street outside The Gourmet Store. The accoustics were very good here and Anne and David the proprietors gave us a warm welcome. Ger Loughnane was among the passers by at this spot.

Venue 3 Finally, Mr Corry and his class made their way to the Temple Gate .  All the windows opened to hear our set as an American  tour group had just checked in . A serenade under their window was not quite what they were expecting! 

Cornet Player  A Going Home Fanfare 

Our programme 

Foxtrot 

Blues 

Twinkle 

Ireland's Call

Twinkle Encore , a Minor Polka and Brass Debutantes

Damien

 Last lesson -  Final performance next week.
Well it was time for our final lesson today.  What an exciting year it has been.  We have one final concert to perform We worked on our Twinkle. The 'echo' echo variation worked very well.  Our three tunes for our graduation performance next week are Twinkle, Blues and Foxtrot.  There were some surprises today in all the classes. We talked to students about their music classes outside school.  Here are the highlights

In Ms McMahon's class , Damien played Frere Jacque,- the whole tune ! Bravo The class played the first part with him . These are the notes.  Lucy did a good job of leading today.

Baritone Horn Thomas talks about his Brass Band Class 

Frere Jacque   D E   F#D    
                        0  1    2 3

Young Conductor

In Mr Blake's class, Elise  led the group in Echo Twinkle 


Daniel, Thomas and James in Mr Corry's class  are all apprentices to Ennis Brass Band and they told us a little about the classes and their instruments.  . Hopefully we will have a chance to hear them soon. Oisin and Rebecca played bass on Foxtrot
Eoin played a super polka  and we played  a pizzicato accompaniment to it. He also told us about his violin class with Siobhan Peoples . Siobhan and her dad Tommy Peoples are great fiddle players . This week Tommy Peoples was elected to Aosdana, Click  here to read an article about this great traditional musician.
ENCORE French Word meaning 'again' .  Sometimes it means please play another tune if the audience really like a performance

Looking forward to graduation peformance and final session next week.

Classical Twist with Vladimir at Glór Schools' performance

Thanks Ms de Buitleir for this piece from the school website www.ennisns.ie

Thanks 

Attentive young violinists

Classical Twist' @ Glór

Monday, 30 April 2012 12:58

Ennis N.S. band, along with all the 4th classes ‘Swinging Strings’ pupils, went to Glór last week for Vladimir Jablokov’s “Classical Twist” performance. Virtuoso violinist Vladimir comes from four generations of professional musicians in Bratislava.  Question time  Vladimir with fellow Slovakian John and friend Damien.  He arrived in Ireland in 2004 without a word of English and began busking in Grafton Street. He went on to form the Slovak Dulcimer Ensemble and eventually the Slovak Festival Orchestra. They have since played everywhere from Áras an Uachtaráin to the National Concert Hall to Carnegie Hall in New York. More questions  Vladimir developed the Classical Twist – classical pieces with a modern twist – concept in 2010, and has been delighting both school audiences and general audiences all over the country with it since. Our pupils were very impressed with the virtuoso violin playing, and a few brave souls got up on stage to dance along with the music. Hopefully our young violinists were inspired to go home and practise like mad …

 Have a listen to the audience reaction following the concert.  
and a post performance interview 

listen to ‘Vlad’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Vladimir Jablokov’ on Audioboo