U-Rock’s First Parade of Lights a Big Hit

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On a sparkly Saturday night in Stittsville, hundreds of families eagerly awaited the arrival of Santa Claus at the Christmas Parade of Lights, and U-Rock Music School was there to celebrate. It was our school’s first time entering the festive parade with our U-Rockmobile, which was all decked out for its dazzling appearance amongst many fabulous glittery holiday floats, boats, …

Biggest Open Mic Event – EVER!

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A whopping and unprecedented 45 U-Rock Music School performers took the stage today for our annual Halloween Open Mic event at Hurley’s and the crowd just couldn’t get enough. We are so proud of every single performer, many of whom were in front of an audience for the very first time. The 2.5 hour show was jam packed with music …

Rowan Hendrick, 10, Wins 1st Prize: $500 at Vocal Competition!

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A 5th grader from Guardian Angels Public School in Stittsville blew away all the teenage competition at the Richmond Fair’s Rise2Fame competition today and won 1st prize for his incredible vocal performance. Rowan Hendrick, 10, just started his third year of lessons at U-Rock Music School. He has studied vocals, guitar and has also been a member of the school’s …

Rock Around the Clock!

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After today’s lessons we will have welcomed all our stars to a brand new year of rock & fun.  Thank you to ALL our stars who did a great job working with our new RING security system to get in and out of the house this past week and for remembering to leave all footwear outside by the door from …

Fall/Winter Lessons: The Kids Wanna Rock!

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We have 120 private and group lesson times available every school year session, but this year by July 10th all but FIVE lesson times had been TOTALLY scooped up. So, we opened MORE new lesson times to meet the demand of our rocking community. If you want to ROCK at the best music school in town, please give us a …

These kids ROCK!

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We received our professional rock show photos from Tom Linden this week. They are posted here to share and show off all of our amazing performers at the 14th Annual U-Rock Concert on June 24th at The Brass Monkey. If you would like a copy of any of the photos please contact Tom directly via Facebook. Thanks! 

Our 14th Annual Summer Rock Show – best ever!

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More than 45 amazing rock stars aged 6-17 took the stage by storm at The Brass Monkey on Saturday, June 24th for U-Rock Music School’s 14th Annual Summer Concert. Over 250 cheering fans & families rocked the event – our biggest show ever! It was a celebration of Canadian rock & pop music planned to coincide with our country’s 150th …

Summer Session Fully Booked!

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Summer registration at U-Rock is now closed, as we are fully booked. LET THE SUMMER FUN BEGIN! There are still a few lesson times available for our Fall/Winter Session but please don’t wait to register as we are already 95% booked for Fall. You can register online TODAY or give us a call at 613-457-5064. U-Rock Music School is CLOSED …

Register Now for Fall/Winter!

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What? Summer hasn’t even started yet. However, we are already 95% booked up for both our 5 month and 10 month Fall/Winter Sessions 2017-18. So, don’t delay, get your rock agenda set for another great year of lessons and awesome performances at U-Rock – Stittsville and the city of Ottawa’s favourite music school. To pre-register right away, just click on …

U-Rock Nominated Best Biz in Stittsville

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We want to thank our community and all of our U-Rock families for helping us achieve so many wonderful nominations over the past two years. We couldn’t be prouder or more humbled by having had no less than seven different business achievement nominations/awards from renowned commercial business groups in the Ottawa region since 2016. This is our 20th anniversary celebration …