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September 2004
Orange launches 'enjoymusic' workshops
Are you passionate about music? Do you dream of headlining the Glastonbury Festival or playing to
80,000 screaming fans at Slane Castle? If that strikes a chord then you'll be interested in a series of 2-day music workshops being held by mobile phone company Orange across Northern Ireland this autumn.
Each of the Orange 'enjoymusic' workshops will be run by a team of professional musician's from The
Making Music Workshop, who have worked with big names like Van Morrison, Paul Brady, The Commitments and Rory Gallagher. The tutors will help aspiring young local musicians to develop their individual talents and
show them how to play as a group. The students will also learn how to write their own original compositions and record them in a professional mobile recording studio.
Six workshops are planned, the first one will be held in the Lakeland Youth Centre, Enniskillen on 6th & 7th November. The other venues are: Omagh Youth Centre (13th & 14th November), Amma Centre, Armagh (20th & 21st November), Brigade Cricket Club, Londonderry (27th & 28th November), Downpatrick Scout Hall (4th & 5th December), and Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart (11th & 12th December).
Each workshop can cater for up to 16 young musicians aged between 14 and 20. Places are still
available at most workshops, so if you'd like to take part in a workshop or just find out more click here to register  or go to communicate page
Once the series of workshops have finished, a live concert will be held in Cookstown in January where each workshop group will
perform their songs on stage in front of an invited audience.
They'll also receive a copy of the 'enjoymusic' album on CD featuring all the original compositions recorded by each group.
John Rose from Orange said: "The workshops are designed to give talented young musicians in rural areas a helping hand they
mightn't get otherwise. We've got some superb tutors who can really inspire the kids and give the confidence to follow their musical dreams. You never know – we might discover the next Van Morrison."
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