{"id":1225,"date":"2011-12-12T16:49:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T16:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/12\/12\/u2-roll-out-youth-music-tutoring-scheme-after-investing-millions\/"},"modified":"2011-12-12T16:49:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T16:49:30","slug":"u2-roll-out-youth-music-tutoring-scheme-after-investing-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2011\/12\/12\/u2-roll-out-youth-music-tutoring-scheme-after-investing-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"U2 roll out youth music tutoring scheme after investing millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musicweek.com\/pictures\/160xAny\/m\/o\/g\/u2.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"158\" height=\"110\" \/><br \/>Irish rock band U2 has lent further support to The Music Generation scheme in Ireland, a tutoring programme that aims to nurture and inspire the nation\u2019s young musicians, following a five million euro donation by the band for its 2009 launch.  <!--more-->  <br \/>The scheme is set to invest 1.7 million euros to facilitate its activities in Cork City, Laois and Wicklow, enabling beneficiaries access to vocal and instrumental tuition in the local vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>U2 guitarist The Edge said: &#8220;Access to music for children and young people is something that is very close to our hearts. We believe that every child should have the choice to get involved in music, irrespective of their background.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Music Generation is addressing the gap in individual and group vocal and instrumental music tuition in our education system, and we are delighted to be playing a part in nurturing and inspiring Ireland&#8217;s young musicians of the future,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The programme previously ran in Louth, Mayo and Sligo areas.<\/p>\n<p>Music Generation chairman Dr Tony O Dalaigh said: &#8220;Music Generation would not be happening without the contributions made by U2 and the Ireland Funds. In practical terms it means that Music Generation can provide access to music education which is currently unavailable to the majority of children, as well as employment for musicians in their locality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish rock band U2 has lent further support to The Music Generation scheme in Ireland,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}