Live at the Plaza Great Gig for Love Live Music Day

Accordions

Banner Bearers with Ms Vaughan

Bandanorama

Busker Ned

'I think it is that way'

Bearing fiddles whistles and accordions , the group set off on foot from Cloughleigh  for the natural arena of the Temple Gate Plaza . The day although a little overcast was warm and dry.   there was a good crowd.  Mary Fagin , visiting from Co Meath and a guest at the hotel complimented the group  . 'Today was a great day to be in Ennis' she said .  Ned  a regular busker here said ' They were great' I had serious competition today. Thanks to our guest Fiona Walsh of Ennis Gospel Choir who joined our fiddle section for the day.

Blazing Bows meets the Band

The SCR Band

Today was a very important day because it was the day Blazing Bows joined forces with Scoil Chríost Rí Band   with their director Karen Vaughan to make a super big band !  We reheased very hard to be ready for our outing to play outdoors at the Temple Gate Plaza  at 11 am as part of  the nationwide Love Live Music Day . Mafouz did a great job on double bass .

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Draft  Busking Programme


1. Oh When the Saints  D D D G   D D D D   ALL DOWN BOWS   all on D except one G  Band +BB
2  Foxtrot     x 3   Don't forget sidestep (2nd time  and  3rd time dip ) you all know this one  BB
3  Blues x4      BB
4 Darling River Monkey  starting on D x 2  Band +BB
5 Twinkle  Echo  Playing in an echo to the band  DD
6 Titanic      D (3) Tremelo   on third finger G  watch me  not all the way through last chorus
7 Cill Cais    pizz on G  open string
8. Mo Gile Mear  Double Stopping on G and D
9 Alleleuiah          G G change D D repeat  GG zzDDzz


Well done everyone today . Remember watch and listen

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SCR at Oliver

5th class girls in Oliver cast

Daniel tries out the conductors baton at Oliver

Celebrating St Patrick's Day at Blazing Bows

 Sally Garden  Reel  Today we looked at some Irish dance tunes .Ms Vaughan and I demonstrated a reel on tin whistle and fiddle .

Can you remember how many parts make up most polkas and  reels  Why do dance tunes have strong regular  rhythms ?
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We  also worked on our Blues  first finger tune and                         *********************   
We Will Rock You riff

C   B    A    G   AA    We Will Rock You  finger pattern on G string
3    2     1     0    11            REMEMBER 2 AND 3 CLOSE TOGETHER

Dá Téada ag an t-am céanna  - Double Stopping  Everybody learned how to play two strings together at the same time .

The class spent some time during the week looking at  the trad  section on www.exploremusic.ie    

My award for Best Student  went to Katie  today

Tuesday Blues

Today we learned a new song ' Blues '    Well Done .

'Check Out the video tutorial and  how about Ms Vaughan's groovy keyboard riffs !  Cool !

How many open strings are used in Blues ?

Who is the character on my tee shirt supposed to be ?


Niamh  and Christopher, Jake  selected for special mention. 

Oliver  with several pupils from SCR continues all week

Term resumes in Spring Sunshine

 NEWSFLASH  Ennis Musical Society perform OLIVER at GLÓR  from  8th 12th March    Sat Matinee
It was good to start back  after a break of three weeks.   Here is what we did today


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Vivaldi in G  pizz      / Toreadors March warm up

  *NEW TUNE  TWO STRING REGGAE      G z G z   D z D z  G G D D  G z D z  

Wintertime in Russia       bowing work

Athacama Crossing         bowing work   
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**NEW Feature Crossing from one string to the next :
 Starting on D and moving  without  a sound to  A   for Athacama Crossing .

Well done everybody , the rhythm was very sharp . Remember little bows for win-ter-time-in  and longer ones for RUS SIA.

Special Oscars edition :Check out the new video clips featuring stars of the screen

'I loved the reggae beat  '    Mafouz

practice tips  Try scale to wintertime in Russsia on any string    1  1 down 2 down 3 down 3 again lift up 3, lift up 2 lift up1   THE END
Athacama crossing  crossing from  D  to A  to wintertime in rus sia


Extra points   Kevin for excellent violin hold  and Jake  for paying excellent attention. Thanks Mafouz and Katie for helping to pack away