Music Generation Limerick City (MGLC) has announced an unprecedented large scale summer programme for teenagers across the city.
The Summer Programme will include the first ever Music Generation National Songwriting Showcase, seven music creation camps in seven locations over seven weeks. A one-day music festival at Pery Square and a professionally produced album of young songwriters graduating from the Limerick Voices programme.
MGLC co-ordinator Boris Hunka says, “It is great that in the year we moved into our Creative Centre. We are in a position to run our most ambitious summer programme yet. With the amount of events planned, the musical forecast for summer in this city is hot”.
Cian McGuire, Adam McNamara and Beth Broderick, showing how its done at the Music Generation Workshops.
Picture Brendan Gleeson
Music Generation Live at the Pery takes the successful one-day festival piloted last year and scales it up to a national celebration of teenage creativity. Performers will come from Music Generation partnerships and programmes in all corners of Ireland. The free event will run at Pery Square on the afternoon of Sunday June 26.
Seven music creation camps will run from June 13 to July 28. The sessions will blend the expertise of Music Generation’s team of musicians with experts from Limerick Youth Service. The workshops will be based on and around the Music Generation Express – a double decker bus converted into a workshop venue and field-recording facility.
Teenagers can choose to do one programme or as many as they like from locations at Dooradoyle, Caherdavin, Corbally, University of Limerick, Northside Youth Centre, The Factory, Southill and The Music Generation Creative Centre (Sexton St).
MGLC runs Limerick Voices Song-writing and Band Mentoring every Saturday in their Creative Centre (Sexton Street). The sessions bring teenagers from all over the city into a space to write and play music and is financially supported by the JP McManus Foundation. Since launching in 2014 the sessions have seen a remarkable upsurge in creativity, driven by the teenagers supported by local musicians. The Saturday sessions will move to a Friday after secondary school term has ended and continue through June and July.
All Music Generation Limerick City Programmes are free to the young people.
MGLC co-ordinator Boris Hunka added that the fruits of years of creativity will be recorded for an Autumn release.
“Limerick Voices launched two years ago. This year that first crop of songwriters are leaving school and moving onwards and upwards. We are marking this and the contribution they made to the programme by producing a professional album of their work, which will be released in the autumn.”
See Music Generation Limerick City (MGLC) website and Facebook pages for up to minute information on the project’s summer activities.
