Munster Express Online

Carrick Musical Society’s Academy for the Performing Arts concluded its first year at the Strand Theatre recently.

Run by the Musical Society every Saturday since last September, over 170 children and young adults, aged seven to 16 years, enjoyed the first term, which concluded at Christmas.

The second term, recently concluded with a great Show, to demonstrate to parents, grandparents and siblings, some of the stagecraft they had acquired over the two terms.

Tutor Catriona O’Dwyer provided accompaniment for the superb entertainment, demonstrating the great enjoyment all the participants got from performing.

The course, with superb tutors, covered song, dance, drama and stagecraft, enabling the 170 plus participants, not only to acquire vast knowledge of the stage, but also to make new friends and enjoy a new way of spending their leisure time.

The tutors also enjoyed the experience of having so many keen pupils enjoying the great atmosphere of learning and performing in the Strand Theatre, which proved a wonderful venue, with its various studios, for the Academy.

The organising committee of the Academy, headed by Pádraig and Eithne Sheehan, and Liam and Breda Butler, are to be congratulated. So committee, tutors and participants take a bow!

There is already great interest in Year Two of the Academy which opens in September.

Many of last year’s stars have already enrolled, and new applicants aged seven to 16 are welcomed.

Contact Willie at 051-645050 or call into the Strand Theatre (Bridge entrance) between 11am and 1pm or 2pm to 4 pm, or any member of the committee. The successful applicants will learn, enjoy, make new friends, and ‘have a ball’.