International Day 2011

Mahfouz in his fabulous costume

 The Blazing Bows Ensemble  had a wonderful perfomance in the hall  with Ms Vaughan ands her Grupa Ceoil on Friday 27th May as part of the school Intercultural Day.  It was a bit of a squeeze getting so many musicians in  but what a great sound. The concert started with solos from Ms Vaughan's after school students  on tin whistle , fiddle and piano.   Here was the joint programme.

French Folk Song    pizz on D
Foxtrot 
Blues  
D Monkey 
Echo Twinkle
Cill FCais  Pizz on G
Mo Gile Mear   Double stopping on G and D
Titanic       tremelo on G     Bows side to side
Halleluia   GG  zz D D zz
Oh When the Saints Go Marching In Down Bow Retakes 

Everyone joined in the last number and everyone sang along .

Everyone in the class received a certificate to say they have completed Level 1 of the Stringschool Programme . Congratulations to all of you.

Ms Power presents my bouquet

International Day

Karen Vaughan talks about her approach to teaching music in Chríost Rí, National School in Ennis, Co Clare

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Term Time resumes

Here is what we did this week.  We are looking ahead to our final performance of this year , the school Intercultural Day on 27th  of May. 

1 We worked on Twinkle as an echo to Ms Vaughan on piano . Ms Vaughan's part is shaded in red and our bit is in plain black ink

D D D D       A  A   A A      B B   B B    A  A 
         0 0                 0  0                 1 1          0
    Dip to show all fingers going down on D  string.

G G G G      F#F#  F#F#     E  E   E E   D     D 
         3  3                 2   2               1 1            0

We also worked on our scale  Darling river monkey     to our cappucino coffee rhythm

To finish we worked on Blues and  Foxtrot