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The Joy of Singing
‘If you can talk, you can sing.’
I have been singing all of my life.
I clearly remember my father singing to me from my earliest...
Christmas trees for music bursaries
Friends of Carey Music (FoCM) are honoured to announce a new bursary for 2021, which is open to vocal students at any year level. This scholarship is named after Karen Murray, a Carey parent...
03 December 2020
A Middle School Music reflection
As we approach the end of a very memorable year, it’s appropriate to spend some time in reflection. First, the losses. In the Performing Arts our principal aim is to provide students with...
03 December 2020
Resilience in Action
It has been so wonderful to welcome students back into the Music Department. The building which has been effectively silent for months is at least starting to resonate with the sound of...
05 November 2020
We’re back – well almost!
It will certainly be a delight to welcome our Year 7 students back to music classes next week, and then the Year 8s and 9s a couple of weeks later. I am sure they are looking forward to getting out of...
08 October 2020
Performing Arts in the COVID Era
This has certainly been a remarkable year! I think the word of the year is ‘unprecedented’, which can be heard all too frequently in the media. Term 3 has been a very challenging time in the...
10 September 2020
We Are Still Learning!
Our music rooms at Carey may be empty, but there is still a whole heap of great musical development taking place. Sure, the Stage 4 restrictions have taken away our wonderful bands...
20 August 2020
Anyone Can Write a Song
What does it take to write a good song? This is an interesting question! To me it’s very similar to asking what is needed to write a good story. Our Year 8 and 9 Music electives focus on...
23 July 2020
Embracing Indigenous history through music
Since European settlement, much of Australia’s history, from the colonial perspective, has been very accessible through diaries, first-hand accounts of events as well as ballads and folk songs...
18 June 2020
Just be the best you can be
One of the lies often promoted to the young is the notion that you can be ‘anything you want to be’.
You can almost certainly be better than you are at the moment...