Dumfries & Galloway Instrumental Music Service

🎶 Come and Play 🎶 Young musicians from all secondary schools and some primary schools across the region who came along to The Bridge to take part in music ensembles today. DGYO, Junior Band, Guitar Groups and Pipeband sounded great. 🎶 @DGCEducation @dgcouncil @SWSPDA

Castle Douglas High School pupils Lucy, Jessie and Eilidh started lessons in P5 and are now in S5. Here they are in their lesson today playing the theme from Men Behaving Badly, an SQA Higher piece. 🎶 Accompanied by Mr Paxton 🎸 @DGCEducation @dgcouncil

Annan Academy guitar group, with Mr Taylor, was sounding great today! Keep up the great work guys 🎸 The guitar group are really delighted to be able to say they never repeat pieces in concerts and always have new material up their sleeves! 🎵🎸⭐️ @DGCEducation @dgcouncil

🎶 Over half way through the October holidays! We hope you’re all having a relaxing break. Here’s a little reminder of why it’s important to practise your instrument little and often for fun, to make progress and for a very healthy brain 🎶🧠⭐️ youtube.com/watch?v=R0JKCY…

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@WallaceHallSch Wednesday lunchtime is string group rehearsal 🎶🎻

👏 Celebrating Success 👏 Jamie from Dumfries High School doing some improvisation- amazing! Jamie has performed at Youthbeatz, he has taken part in Sonic Youth and Oasis Centre sessions as well as performing in school 🎸 Well done! @DGCEducation @dumfrieshigh @dgcouncil

Dumfries & Galloway Regional Youth Choir are having a great time hosting the Gifhorn Twin Town Singers in Chester this week. They’ve worked really hard on their songs 🎶 had a lot of fun 🎢🦒 and built friendships with the German choir! 🎶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪🎶 @dgcouncil @DGCEducation

Last week, we attended Dalbeattie High School for the Inclusive Practise Roadshow. It was lovely to see so many past, current and future pupils and parents. Thank you for coming along to have a chat with us 🎶 @dgcouncil @DGCEducation @DalbeattieHigh

Today we are celebrating the success of Freya who has lessons with Angela at Stranraer Academy. Freya recently achieved a Distinction in her Grade 2 cornet exam. Congratulations Freya, hard work pays off! 💪🎶🎺🎉 @dgcouncil @DGCEducation

Saturday was a very busy day for team Music Service 🎶 First we met at The Bridge for Come & Play sessions for Dumfries and Galloway Youth Orchestra, junior orchestra and three guitar groups. They did a brilliant job. 🎸🥁🎻🎺🎷 @dgcouncil @DGCEducation

Dumfries Academy and NWCC music pupils showing their appreciation for the concert and workshop provided by Comberti-Cole Duo. @DGCEducation @dgcouncil @MusicinDumfries @DumfriesAcademy

Yesterday afternoon, Dumfries Academy and NWCC music pupils were treated to a workshop by Comberti-Cole Duo in partnership with Music in Dumfries. Maggie Cole and Sebastian Comberti blew pupils and staff away with their performance. @DumfriesAcademy @DGCEducation @dgcouncil

Thank you @RSNO 🎶

St Andrew’s Primary pupils started their block of Youth Music Initiative RAMTAM sessions with Grant today. The class engaged really well and had fun learning to write and read rhythms as well as singing songs 🎵🎼🎶 @DGCEducation @dgcouncil @CreativeScots

🔥 OASIS ACOUSTIC NIGHT 🎸 📅 Friday, September 19 🕖 7:00–8:30 PM 📍 Oasis Youth Centre Join us for a chill night of acoustic music at Oasis Acoustic Night. Relax, unwind and enjoy some great tunes. Book your tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/oasis-acoust…

Percussion instructor Bob Irving and his team are looking forward to welcoming you all to Dumfries Drum Day 🥁 Free for under 16s🎶 @DGCEducation @dgcouncil

With a concert next Monday to prepare for, Annan Academy school band worked their socks off last weekend on their residential weekend. Well done team, we are really looking forward to the concert 🎵🎺🎷🪈 @annan_academy @DGCEducation @dgcouncil

Yesterday, we were so lucky to participate in the @RSNO x @CharangaScot project- Yo-yo and the Little Auk. The orchestra came to Stranraer to play for Belmont Primary School, Rephad Primary and Park Primary School pupils. Thank you to all involved 🎶 @DGCEducation @DGCEducation

Guitar groups have started work on some new music today- great work guitar team 🎸 @DGCEducation @dgcouncil