Official account of @DGCouncil Instrumental Music Service.
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๐ถ Come and Play ๐ถ
Young musicians from all secondary schools and some primary schools across the region who came along to The Bridge to take part in music ensembles today.
DGYO, Junior Band, Guitar Groups and Pipeband sounded great. ๐ถ
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Castle Douglas High School pupils Lucy, Jessie and Eilidh started lessons in P5 and are now in S5. Here they are in their lesson today playing the theme from Men Behaving Badly, an SQA Higher piece. ๐ถ
Accompanied by Mr Paxton ๐ธ
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Annan Academy guitar group, with Mr Taylor, was sounding great today! Keep up the great work guys ๐ธ
The guitar group are really delighted to be able to say they never repeat pieces in concerts and always have new material up their sleeves! ๐ต๐ธโญ๏ธ
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๐ถ Over half way through the October holidays! We hope youโre all having a relaxing break. Hereโs a little reminder of why itโs important to practise your instrument little and often for fun, to make progress and for a very healthy brain ๐ถ๐ง โญ๏ธ
youtube.com/watch?v=R0JKCYZ8โฆ
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๐ฃ Have your say ๐ฃ
17 Oct 2025
Our Budget Consultation 26/27 is now open.
Explore the Budget Challenge, complete the survey or join a Community Conversation.
Itโs not an easy conversation, but itโs an important one โ and your input will help guide councillorsโ decisions ahead.
๐ orlo.uk/dRLpy
ALT Graphic for Dumfries and Galloway Council's Budget Consultation 2026/27 featuring a pink background and pound symbol
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๐ Celebrating Success ๐
Jamie from Dumfries High School doing some improvisation- amazing!
Jamie has performed at Youthbeatz, he has taken part in Sonic Youth and Oasis Centre sessions as well as performing in school ๐ธ Well done!
@DGCEducation @dumfrieshigh @dgcouncil
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Dumfries & Galloway Regional Youth Choir are having a great time hosting the Gifhorn Twin Town Singers in Chester this week. Theyโve worked really hard on their songs ๐ถ had a lot of fun ๐ข๐ฆ and built friendships with the German choir!
๐ถ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ฉ๐ช๐ถ
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Last week, we attended Dalbeattie High School for the Inclusive Practise Roadshow. It was lovely to see so many past, current and future pupils and parents. Thank you for coming along to have a chat with us ๐ถ
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Today we are celebrating the success of Freya who has lessons with Angela at Stranraer Academy. Freya recently achieved a Distinction in her Grade 2 cornet exam. Congratulations Freya, hard work pays off! ๐ช๐ถ๐บ๐
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Saturday was a very busy day for team Music Service ๐ถ
First we met at The Bridge for Come & Play sessions for Dumfries and Galloway Youth Orchestra, junior orchestra and three guitar groups. They did a brilliant job. ๐ธ๐ฅ๐ป๐บ๐ท
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Dumfries Academy and NWCC music pupils showing their appreciation for the concert and workshop provided by Comberti-Cole Duo.
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Yesterday afternoon, Dumfries Academy and NWCC music pupils were treated to a workshop by Comberti-Cole Duo in partnership with Music in Dumfries.
Maggie Cole and Sebastian Comberti blew pupils and staff away with their performance.
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Thank you @RSNO ๐ถ
18 Sep 2025
That's a wrap on our two week tour of Yoyo & The Little Auk ๐
Thank you to all the venues, schools and everyone who made it possible. We had a great time!
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St Andrewโs Primary pupils started their block of Youth Music Initiative RAMTAM sessions with Grant today. The class engaged really well and had fun learning to write and read rhythms as well as singing songs ๐ต๐ผ๐ถ
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๐ฅ OASIS ACOUSTIC NIGHT ๐ธ
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Friday, September 19
๐ 7:00โ8:30 PM
๐ Oasis Youth Centre
Join us for a chill night of acoustic music at Oasis Acoustic Night. Relax, unwind and enjoy some great tunes.
Book your tickets:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/oasis-acoโฆ
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Percussion instructor Bob Irving and his team are looking forward to welcoming you all to Dumfries Drum Day ๐ฅ Free for under 16s๐ถ
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With a concert next Monday to prepare for, Annan Academy school band worked their socks off last weekend on their residential weekend. Well done team, we are really looking forward to the concert ๐ต๐บ๐ท๐ช
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Yesterday, we were so lucky to participate in the @RSNO x @CharangaScot project- Yo-yo and the Little Auk. The orchestra came to Stranraer to play for Belmont Primary School, Rephad Primary and Park Primary School pupils. Thank you to all involved ๐ถ
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Guitar groups have started work on some new music today- great work guitar team ๐ธ
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Today Dumfries and Galloway Youth Orchestra are together for their first rehearsal of the year. Young musicians from all secondary schools in Dumfries and Galloway signed up to be part of the orchestra.
They are sounding fantastic- well done everyone!
@DGCEducation @dgcouncil
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