Fall/Winter Lessons: The Kids Wanna Rock!

Cathy HallesseyNews

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!

Cathy HallesseyBlog, News

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!

Cathy HallesseyNews

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!

Cathy HallesseyNews

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!

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

Cathy HallesseyNews

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”

Cathy HallesseyBlog, News

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!

Cathy HallesseyBlog, News

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. …