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!
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!
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
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
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!
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, …
Congrats Sarah & Briana!
Two of our amazing vocal students have placed in the top 25 for this year’s Ottawa Idol competition. Sarah Culbert, 14 and Briana Kelford, 14 were selected from more than one hundred video finalist and then auditioned in person in the final cut for this year’s competition. Two other very talented U-Rock singers, Andrew Waines, 19 and Samantha Clarke, 13, …
Set your kids up for success in music lessons
Playing music is awesome, fun and rewarding. Learning to play music, however, can be hard work. Here are some tips for success if you are enrolling you child in music lessons. You can skip down to the next section During lessons, if your child or teen is already attending lessons with us: Before enrolling Assess your child’s readiness. We find that …
Why Choose U-Rock?
That’s my favourite question – ever! We always recommend that our families compare us to other music schools. Why? Because we are very different, and we think being different ROCKS. At U-Rock, your stars will get the royal treatment. Their lessons are personalized to suit each student’s needs and skill levels. We don’t offer a one-size-fits-all program. It just doesn’t …
Photos from our June 2016 show
Here’s a sampling of the great pics of the performers at our end-of-year show in June. More photos are available on our FaceBook page at www.facebook.com/urockschool.