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St. John's National School, Breaffy, Co. Mayo - Primary Finalist 2017

‘Gan Teorainn’ (No Borders), performed by the 37-strong Le Chéile group. Primary School Finalist in the 2017 Waltons Music for Schools Competition, a national competition and celebration of music in Irish schools. ADDRESSING THIS YEAR’S COMPETITION THEME, MUSIC HAS NO BORDERS A rural DEIS school, St. John's has many students of diverse ethnicities and cultural backgrounds attending, and the Le Chéile group is a microcosm of the school’s community – with solo vocalists from the Traveller community and Pakistan, and dancers from Lithuania and Latvia. However, all the children and teachers are very proud of the fact that Mayo is a county steeped in traditional Irish music, and they sought to build on that tradition and use the Competition as a catalyst for musical interaction and exploration. The pieces chosen include the air ‘Molly McAlpine’, followed by ‘The Foggy Dew’, telling the tale of Irish nationalism and British Imperialism. This is followed by ‘Mick Fadian’s March’, composed by Des Cafferkey from Achill Island about the legendary local piper Mick Fadian. The group then plays the lively jig ‘Amach San Fharraige’ (Out on the Ocean), reflecting their sense of place and physical landscape as a county situated on the Atlantic Ocean, followed by ‘Mawla Ya Sali Wasalim’, a traditional Arabic air about peace and love. Their entry finishes with ‘What a Wonderful World’, followed by students from different ethnic backgrounds addressing us in their native language. See www.newschool.ie/musicforschools for more information.