 another year, and it will be in July, the start of July the third to the seventh of July, Monday to Friday in, or Monday to Saturday actually, because I think Saturday is included. And it's in a class, Ali and letter Kenny. A booking is now open. Let's find out what's on offer because the treasure is Breach Dory, who joins us now in studio and Breach. Am I right and saying Saturday for performance rather than for teaching? Thanks, Sean, for our thanks for having us on, John. I was just going to correct that. It's Monday to Friday are the classes. It begins at 10 o'clock each day, runs to 4 o'clock. We used to have the performances on a Saturday. Last year for the first time we had the end of week concerts on the Friday night, Friday evening, and we found out worked really well. You know it was a more compact week and tutors and committee members and students by Friday evening, they went home. As one of the kids said, we went home exhausted and inspired. That was actually one of the mothers said that. Brilliant, brilliant. And the performance is then at the end of it all. It's great because if you've got kids involved, you just want to go along and say, you know, have they learned anything? What can they play? And then it's often a combined effort. It's different instruments may be involved and maybe groups singing. And it's a great atmosphere. Yeah, from Friday morning, you know, and well, first of all, it starts on Monday. So each tutor, kids will do up to five classes. They make a sixth choice, but they do five classes. So really, the tutors have got like four hours with them. And then the Friday is more about performances. Some of them are in class, some of them are at lunchtime and some of them are after school or after the class. Even the semibreves and that's the 16. Yeah, yeah. And that's just a very good for introducing kids to music and appreciation of music, rhythm and song and movement, all with an element of fun. If the weather's nice, there'll be outdoors, bit of art thrown on. They even do a wee performance at the end of the week. And that's fantastic for parents to see. And then strings, wind, brass, dunnigol, pop, samba, all of those. And some of its instruments that, you know, just a little bit different. You know, it's not just all about, you know, guitars or tin whistles. There's some different brass sections and stuff involved. Oh, absolutely. And I suppose the School of Music would have started off very much as the whole thing of classical music to really give attention to that. And it's probably broadened out about over the years. But yeah, you've got strings, you've got wind, you've got brass, you've got percussion. And this year, then, we've got to introduce some new elements. We're having opera this year for the first time. We have a soprano from Bologna, Italy, Rita de Maria, who is relocated to Dunnigol. So she will be doing the opera. And that's very much an introduction. You know, the way there may be an elitist perspective attached to opera. So this is an introduction. Just try it out. Musical Theatre worked very well last year. We're bringing that back. This year we also have new handbells. And handbells, that's a musical ensemble. You may have up to 24 handbells in a set. So you can have whatever number of children, teenagers. Each has a different pitch, and it creates an ensemble. So it's very much a group thing. Some of the classes you need to have prior experience, some of them you don't. So Samba voice classes. We're having piano for beginners this year. So there's a whole range of things. There's art and dance for those that want to take maybe time out of the music. There really is something for everybody. And it's all outlined on the application form as to what you might need a bit of experience for and what you can just try for the first time. Exactly, exactly. You know, say for strings, for like say violin, you would need to have some experience for that. But that all is outlined. We've really got seven categories of classes. And within each of those there might be about three or four. So say if you were taking about piano, there'd be piano. With pictures, which is new this year. There'd be piano solo, piano in duets, and then masterclass. So within each of those, then within say creating original music, you have songwriting, improvisation. Within percussion, you have drums, you have Samba and hand bells. So there's, you know, you can drill down. So much to choose. About 25 choices. So if you are looking to hone your musical skills, push yourself further, do a masterclass, or if you have a high grade in piano, this is summer school is definitely for you. If you're just dipping your toe into the waters thinking I like music, but I don't have a formal training. This is also for you. Two things. Volunteers and tutors. The tutors are all experienced. The tutors are amazing. We've had some tutors for the last 20 years. They give so much in terms of their time, their expertise. They're all guarded, vetted. They're all highly trained, highly motivated. The good thing is each year we have new tutors coming in as well. So the mix changes as an opera, as in hand bells, as in, yeah, we probably have another few new tutors this year as well. Or some tutors. It's their second year. You know, different things turn up. Some tutors can't always make it. Yeah, the committee, voluntary committee and very this is not not for profit. Not for profit. Exactly. We all have our day jobs. We all you know, from the last few months, we're meeting every week, sometimes on zoom, face to face, sorting out everything as you know yourself that needs to be sorted on for the love of music. Exactly for this week to run smoothly. And it's great fun. And we've got two new people on the committee this year, which is really good as well. So we're always trying to, you know, add new things and better things. Okay. And if someone's listening in and interested, where should they go to? I can go to the website. Donegal summer school of music.org. We have our booking forum there. We have all the details. There's also a phone number. That's not actually on the website. But if you want to ring somebody, the phone number is 08 6664 9954. That's the school phone. Somebody will be on hand to answer that. But all the details are on the website. And the level of expertise that you need for doing a particular course, you know, for doing a particular class. It's just it is a magical week. You know, when you get up to 60 to 80 kids together, you hear the beauty, you hear the brush, you hear the wind, you hear the strings, you hear the samba, and then at break time, if it's nice weather, they're all outside gets people into I think just a different space. It is magic tracks young people not just around the county beyond people coming their holidays, you know, they plan their holidays or family plan so that they'll be here for the summer school. And we're delighted that over the last few years, we've welcomed people from the new communities in Donegal asylum seekers and refugees. And that has been helped through bursaries from Donegal music education partnership, who also give us loan as instruments and also from the school's completion program in Erigal and in Finn Valley. So we've become a much more diverse school as well. Now we're lucky they've got a couple of past peoples with us in the studio as well. Sean, Miguel, Murray from that are Kenny. Welcome. And Kevin McLaughlin from lecture lecture, Michael Ward. Okay, good. Good to see us both. Thanks for coming in. Thanks for having us. And you're both students, music students. Now you've gone on and you're continuing your musical. Yeah, we're both studying music and McGee out in Derry. So that was a real inspiration doing the summer school that really set you up to go on to do music later on. I definitely wouldn't be studying it if I didn't go to summer school. So it made you realize that there's, you know, but a potential here. I might just take a step forward. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. I never played guitar really until I went there and I got a guitar teacher there, Mark Black Ponsonby. And then he kind of, he made me really, really love music and my auntie teaches there as well. And just went on to really, really get a feel for it. Great. And Sean, you're playing an unusual instrument. You're actually sitting on it. I'm sitting on it. Yeah, the cajon is just a percussion instrument. I'm mainly a drummer, but this is kind of drummers if they get asked to do an acoustic gig without the cajon. Bring the seat along. That's it. Bring the seat along. Sit the box. What? How do you pronounce cajon? Cajon, yeah. Cajon. Okay. So the song you're going to do for us is? Jigsaw by Ryan Sheridan. All right, guys. In your mind, I'm going to do it myself. One and only man, who can make me who I am. Us two fine. Mark with the one hand holding on tonight and one today. It's all to do with what you need. Listen to yourself. Leave it in your desk if you can't leave it on your back. I got the view to get me home. Means to get me there. Lighter on my soul and the fire in my hand. I disagree what I've been told. Tizen to myself. One and only man who can make me who I am. You tossed a coin and picked my path. Even out my odds to face to leave me with the one hand holding on tonight and one today. Take my time to reach the cajon. Thing that slows me down from fast thinking to the day I miss the way I was fisted. No expression face you have with the one hand holding on tonight and one today. Kevin McLaughlin and Sean McGill Murray, past peoples of the we go summer school of music, current music students in Derry. I don't say I didn't know what to expect. Music students coming in and he blew me away there because yeah and just two instruments there and Jigsaw hardened off song to grasp on the guitar because it's fast fast women so well under both you. Thank you and the dates of share the third to the seventh of July July. Can I mention one more thing? We have a Facebook competition so we're giving away for the first time ever one free place so go on to the DSSM Facebook page. All the details are there and you have to like share and tag to three friends that gets you into the competition and you might just win a free place. Fair enough. Donegallsummerschoolofmusic.org for more information. Thank you. Thank you very much John. Don't miss the 21st annual vintage show this Sunday at the Carrickfield Mobile all the usual attractions cars tractors