Register Now for Fall/Winter!

Cathy HallesseyBlog, News

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 …

Bring on the heat! Check out our 6 Week “Sunny Session”

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Got a young rock star who wants to learn to sing, play guitar, drums, keyboard or ukulele  – or maybe even try lessons in ALL of these? Does your budding star want to join a group of kids his/her age to rock out with? We’ve got that covered too. U-Rock’s 6 week programs are the perfect place to start. We …

20th Anniversary Celebrations at U-Rock!

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2017 marks a very special 20th anniversary @U-Rock Music School. We opened our rock/pop/performance school in 1997, when we noticed no other music schools in the greater Ottawa area offered lessons to children and teens specifically geared to the music THEY love. U-Rock was born and it is thriving! 20 years later we have nearly 100 students coming to our …

U-Rock Open Mic Schedule 2017

Brian BrodersenBlog, News

Twenty-four of our students strutted their stuff at our Christmas open mic at Hurley’s and were rewarded with a three-page spread in the Stittsville News. For many of our performers, it was their first time on stage. It was a ton of fun and a great warm-up for our big, end-of-session show this January 28th at the Brass Monkey. Check …

Happy holidays!

Brian BrodersenBlog, News

Merry Christmas and happy New Year from U-Rock and our now-famous alumnus, Andrew Waines. Enjoy his video for his version of Last Christmas, recorded at Upper Canada Village. Andrew recently signed an artist management contract with Neville Paul of NPMG in Ottawa/Nashville! Congrats, Andrew. We know you’re going to be a big star. You can follow Andrew on Facebook and Instagram. …

U-Rock Nominated for 2017 Top Choice Awards!

Cathy HallesseyBlog, News

We are humbly thankful. We’ve received two consecutive nominations at U-Rock for the 2017 & 2016 Top Choice Awards for Best Music School in Ottawa. Although we won’t bug you to vote for us we are extremely grateful for this honour. Thanks for believing in what do! This is our fourth business award nomination in less than a year. We …

Help Your Star to Shine Month

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Happy November! This is Help Your Star to Shine month at U-Rock. Parents play an integral role in the success of their musical offspring. Remind your young rockers to practice every day and they will amaze you at our next show. Even 15 minutes of daily practice will make a HUGE difference in your child or teen’s ability to progress …

Rebel Radio 101.7 visits U-Rock

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It’s not every day that a local radio DJ stops by on his Harley to say hello and bring us some cool swag from Ottawa’s new rock radio station, Rebel 101.7. Darryl Kornicky had some great swag for us and loved our ROCKMOBILE and he proceeded to take a selfie with Brian. Happy Friday everyone, our radio is always tuned …

Three awesome U-Rock events – mark your calendars!

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We have a crazy fun fall/winter season of live shows coming up: Our now-famous Open Mic events at Hurley’s Neighbourhood Grill in Stittsville will start with a Haunted Halloween Open Mic Party – on Saturday, October 29th from 7:30-9:00pm. Costumes encouraged 🙂 Christmas Open Mic show on Sunday, December 18th from 2pm to 3:30pm will feature The Roxies Christmas Concert, …