Three workshops in one day!

Thursday was perhaps our most hectic day! Bobby and I did two workshops at St. Kevin's School, Greystones, and then one in the afternoon at the Bray Institute of further education. The workshops at St. Kevin's were 45 minutes each, not the usual 90, so things were extra hectic! However, we still had a wonderful time and managed to create some great pieces. One piece described walking over Bray Head (a huge hill between Bray and Greystones). Groups of five to six students musically depicted the wind at the top of the hill (bells, and some wonderful coloured tubes of all different lenghts, which you could blow through), the beautiful yellow and pink gorse at the top of the hill (motifs on penny whistles), looking down at the sea bellow, climbing up the mountain (big crescendo's on the drums) and so on!

In the afternoon at the Bray Institute, we met up with another group and made some great music with keyboards, guitars and a few other instruments, The piece we made here lasted 7 minutes, with rhythmic guitar strumming and chords on the piano that spanned many octaves. Representing the arrival and departure of a train through the area, this piece was a great success!