7 Reasons to Explore Irish Culture and Heritage this St Patrick’s Day
Discover your Irish roots and tap into the magical sounds of Irish traditional music on March 17th, the feast day of the patron saint of Ireland. Despite its small size, with just 7 million people living on this tiny island on the northwestern tip of Europe, the Irish diaspora is believed to number as many…
Do You Share Music Tastes With Your Parents?
What kind of music do your parents like? Do you enjoy listening to it with them, whether in the car or at home, or do you wish they would put on something else?When Deftones’s hit “Change (In the House of Flies)” blared out of Tyson Burden’s car stereo in April 2020, he started to choke…
Do We Need Better Music Education?
Do you play any musical instrument — or have you ever? Do you think music should be an essential part of every child’s education?In “We’re Teaching Music to Kids All Wrong,” Sammy Miller, a Grammy-nominated drummer and the founder of a music education company, writes:Each fall, as school starts up again, music educators witness a…
Heritage Day: A Celebration of Culture and Traditions
South Africa is a country known for its history, rich cultural diversity, and heritage. It’s a melting pot of cultures and where the social and cultural interactions among its various ethnic groups make South Africa a unique and vibrant mosaic of traditions and customs. In this article, we’ll look at why Heritage Day is important…
Alison Publisher Spotlight: Ethan Winer
If you’re like most people, music is a big part of your life. Whether it’s playing your favourite artist’s song when getting ready for work, or listening to it on your way to work or gym, music elicits memories. And can be the backdrop of many of lives’ beautiful and sad moments. Music is life.…
Learn to Play an Instrument
Unleash the sound of music for Christmas and New Year Are you getting a musical instrument for Christmas? How about your new year resolutions? Will they include mastering an instrument? Research shows that learning an instrument can improve cognitive function and benefit the brain, no matter what age you begin learning. Apart from boosting your…
Learn to Play an Irish Instrument
Unleash the sound of music for Christmas and New Year Are you getting a musical instrument for Christmas? How about your new year resolutions? Will they include mastering an instrument? Research shows that learning an instrument can improve cognitive function and benefit the brain, no matter what age you begin learning. Apart from boosting your…
Who Was Your Favorite Musical Artist This Year?
At the Grammy Awards on Sunday, Olivia Rodrigo, Silk Sonic and Jon Batiste took home some of the top prizes during what New York Times critic Jon Caramanica called “an utterly inconsistent night.”If you were the one who got to hand out Grammys, who would you give them to, and what qualities would you seek…
THE POWER OF MUSIC
Music is vocal or instrumental sound (or both) blended in such a way as to achieve beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion, according to the Oxford dictionary.“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.”- Robert G. Ingersoll“Music is an explosive…
Alison traditional Irish music courses prove a hit!
Earlier this year Alison launched the Traditional Irish Music Hub in collaboration with some of Ireland’s finest musicians. Drawing on the very best talent in traditional Irish music, Alison crafted a series of courses covering all of the genre’s major instruments, including fiddle, concertina and bodhrán. The courses have been already been enjoyed by thousands…
