As online lessons become the norm, I commandered tripods and tablets to ensure my students had an all round experience of the piano lesson. Initially I had no web-cam as every person in the world had ordered one on the same day, luckily we had the technology and Ardagh Music Room has welcomed the transition. […]
As the country and the world settled for an unknown period of time many of us entered into the unchartered territory of online teaching. An internet service that has been available for many years but by most deemed unnecessary. Luckily I had two very computer literate students, CoderDojo Longford Ninjas no less, who were ready […]
With the support of Creative Longford and St Patrick’s Church, Ardagh, we had our Christmas Piano Concert on 23rd December. A lovely evening where everyone got to perform their own choice of pieces with a good selection of Christmas songs and carols thrown in for good measure! We heard exam pieces including Holiday Ragtime and […]
Longford’s own concert pianist and friend of Ardagh Music Room, Peter Regan, was performing in the Backstage Theatre on 13th December 2019 and a group of Ardagh Music Room piano students were in attendance. After a spending the summer of performing in Madrid, Marbella, London, Galway and Dublin, Peter was playing to a home crowd […]
What a fabulous show we had in the Bridgeways Centre, Ballymahon. An amazing group of children came together for one week and worked on lines, songs, costumes, props and staging with a spectacular result! Our version of Shrek the Musical wowed everyone – as the audiences left they couldn’t believe that we had managed it […]
Looking forward to our Summer Camp next week where an enthusiastic gang will come together to put on a performance of some of the songs and scenes of Shrek! Featuring all your favourite fairy tale characters… Exciting times ahead – don’t miss out – book your ticket for one of our shows on 17th August […]
Pantastic! brought to Ballymahon the enchanting world of Neverland, with all its colourful characters and amazing adventures, needs little introduction. The daring exploits of Peter Pan and Tinker Bell, along with Captain Hook, Tiger Lily, Tootles and the Lost Boys, have had generations of children – not to mention adults – spellbound. This adaptation remains […]
24 March, Backstage Theatre, Longford saw the amazing performance of Pitch & Pulse first year of STARS!! This little group have met weekly since September, learning about rhythm, pulse and sound through songs and games. Having fun with percussion instruments and ukuleles, clapping songs and dances brought the group together singing pop songs and classics. […]
This Christmas I decided to stay in Ardagh and use St Patrick’s church in the village centre for our Christmas Piano Concert. The Piano Shop in Athlone manoeuvred one of their pianos up the steps into the church ready for us the Sunday before Christmas.We had a lovely evening where all our pianists played Christmas […]
Christmas classic – A Nativity for Bog Lane Youth Musical Theatre Let’s Do A Nativity is a play within a play. A group of children – ‘The Producers’ – decide to stage their own Christmas nativity show. They are overwhelmed with volunteers and hold auditions As they struggle with scripts, organise unruly shepherds and search […]
Bog Lane Youth Musical Theatre – Let’s do Bugsy! Ardagh Music Room’s version of the classic children’s musical comedy Bugsy Malone! Could our gang of fabulous actors learn all their songs and lines in one week to produce two performances for more sell-out audiences? The answer is Yes they can!! Despite stifling heat and intense […]
Bog Lane Youth Musical Theatre Ardagh Music Room, KC Creations and Bog Lane Theatre joined forces to introduce the BOG LANE YOUTH MUSICAL THEATRE with a SELL OUT production of Cinderella & Rockerfella a modern twist on the classic pantomime tale. With rehearsals starting in February the three performances over St Patrick’s weekend sold out […]
Tashinny Church – 2017 The number of students performing in the Ardagh Music Room’s Christmas Concert 2017 was such that my small music room did not have the space to accommodate all the pianists and their families so I had to look for somewhere different – with a piano! Tashinny church is cosy and comfortable […]
This year saw my first piano-camp for early years pupils and what a great success it was! I use the excellent Birds & Dogs method for teaching the younger students but wanted to run a camp that was accessible to students unfamiliar with it. The aim was to introduce technical and note letter names and […]
Ardagh Nativity 2016 Ardagh Music Room Production of “Let’s Do a Nativity!” gave everyone an opportunity to tread the boards in Ardagh Community Centre Christmas 2016, as a fabulous group of children got together to sing, dance, perform and have fun – with all the exhilaration that comes with being part of such an amazing cast! […]
A trip to the National Concert Hall after an evening of Beethoven for some of my piano students!