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Trinidad, Tunapuna - Do you play pan, trumpet, trombone, saxophone, flute, clarinet, keyboards, percussion, guitar or bass? Or do you sing? Are you currently in secondary school? Perhaps you have you recently completed SEA and are about to enter Secondary School? Maybe are you a recent Secondary School graduate? Do you wish to enhance your musical skills with a 5-week intensive programme of sight-reading, harmony, ear-training, technique, ensemble playing, theatre arts, local music history and a host of other courses to support the development of your musical talents? If you tick any of these boxes, birdsong Academy may be the place for you when school closes this term. From July 6-August 8, 2015 birdsong Academy will host its 12th annual Vacation Music Camp. The camp is conducted from 8am-4pm Mondays through Fridays at venues in the Tunapuna community, including the panyard, the UWI St Augustine campus and Tapia House. Because of limited places, admission is by audition. This takes place on Saturday May 30, from 9am - 1pm. The venue for the auditions is the panyard at the corner of St Vincent and Connell Streets in Tunapuna. No charges apply for audition, tuition nor the use of instruments.

Currently in its 11th year, under the auspices of birdsong, a registered non-profit organization with charitable status birdsong Academy is a free music education programme targeting teenaged youth. It is a year-round programme, including a 5-week July/August Vacation Camp, accommodating 110 children in the East-West Corridor. The programme is already bearing tangible fruit to its most important constituents – at risk youth. Supported by birdsong’s Scholarship Fund, two alumni are will this year complete undergraduate music programmes at universities in the US and Holland whilst a third is pursuing medicine in the Republic of Georgia. Several alumni are enrolled local tertiary level music programmes. Yet others have established careers in local Service bands.

For further information please call: 360-3150, or 492-9757.

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