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April 18-22 is bring a friend to your music lessons week at U-Rock School! With your parents’ permission you can have one friend join you at your music lesson. We’ll even record you both singing or playing your instruments together for our first ever BFFs ❤️ Music Video Week. Got a friend who loves music? Invite them to try a lesson …
The snow is gone (we hope!) and most of us are longing for the warm days of summer. It may seem early to be thinking about what your rock stars are going to do this summer, but we are ready to rock out in the sunshine with lots of great lesson options for kids and teens age 4-18. This …
Got talent? Then you have come to the right music school. We don’t just teach music, we live it, breathe it and do our best to inspire our students to shine bright. Every stage, no matter how big or small, is an opportunity to grow more confidence as a young performer. We start encouraging our students to show off their …
On Thursday, February 25th, U-Rock Music School was honoured as a finalist, along with other West Ottawa entrepreneurs and business leaders, at the 2016 Business Excellence Awards (BEA) at the Brookstreet Hotel. Our school was a finalist in the small business category, chosen by West Ottawa Board of Trade’s Selection Committee, which was a wonderful and unexpected surprise to us. …
We thought you’d enjoy seeing our favourite pictures of the performers at our 2016 Winter Concert. Thanks to the awesome Quinn Brown, of From the Wall Productions, who took these shots! And then there’s this…7-year-old Daven performing Fight Song:
Just like regular schools, we are always open, regardless of Mother Nature’s desire to sprinkle the white stuff today like a wild madwoman. Be safe out there. If you can’t make it to your lessons just drop us a line to let us know. Thanks and feel free to celebrate a true Canadian day by building a snowman, or five. …
The first week of our winter/spring session was both FUN & BUSY! We welcome our new stars and wish all our students a noisy & awesome time. ALL LESSON TIMES ARE NOW FULL. If you’d like to register for our summer sessions please fill out the registration form on our main page. You can also register in advance for next fall, …
By Petra Tool Johnny Rosenberg came to my portrait studio, dressed in a T-shirt, waistcoat, jeans, sneakers, wristbands and necklaces. When he started to sing a couple of quiet, tender jazzy songs, accompanying himself on his guitar, I was pleasantly surprised. This was quite a different Johnny from the one I had watched perform in a jazz club, singing Michael …
Playing the blues is a great way to learn lead guitar. Here are some tracks that we hope will inspire you to take your playing further: Texas Flood, Stevie Ray Vaughan (1982). Vaughan cemented his place in the Avalon of Texas blues with his cutting take on this Larry Davis number, full of leads that dig deep into the flatlands dust and …
Our Second Annual Winter Concert was a HUGE success! More than 500 pictures were taken by photographer Quinn Brown. Stittsville News reporter, John Curry, was also there for the entire show. So keep watching our website, Facebook page and Instagram for posts of pics, stories and family videos we’ve been receiving. This week’s Stittsville News should have some great coverage, …
