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News - Music
Master Class in Songwriting with RuthAnne...
RuthAnne Cunningham gave a Master Class in Songwriting to the Music Department students on Monday 26th November. RuthAnne has an impressive list of songwriting credits to her name including JoJo’s...
Aoife Aherne at BCFE
We enjoyed the talk by Aoife Aherne to the BCFE Business, Management and Music Students in the Anna Brett Hall on Thursday 8th November 2018. Aoife completed her Higher National...
‘Now We’re Talking’ event held at...
Follow this link to see the ‘Now We’re Talking’ event (in association with Pieta House, Hot Press and Lyons Tea) held recently at BCFE. It captures the atmosphere in the Social Area...
Ralph Rolle @ the Rock School
Legendary Drummer, Ralph Rolle (Nile Rodgers, Chic, Sting, Bono, Erykah Badu, John Legend and Paul Simon, to name a small few!) dropped in to give an inspiring workshop to Contemporary...
BCFE Student’s Eurovision 2018
We are proud to share that former BCFE Rock School student Mark “Cappy” Caplice (pictured left) is one of the co-writers for Ireland’s entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. The...
Ceoltóir to include instrument making strand
Instrument Making at BCFE Ballyfermot College of Further Education is pleased to announce that the college will be offering an instrument making strand. This will be run in conjunction with the...
Bowie’s guitarist @ the Rock School
Dublin born guitar legend Gerry Leonard (David Bowie, Suzanne Vega, Rufus Wainwright, Spookyghost) dropped in to give an inspiring guitar and industry workshop to music students in BCFE last week. Gerry...
Daoiri Farrell, Traditional Music Course Graduate,...
Daoiri Farrell, Traditional Music Course Graduate, wins two BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Daoiri had been nominated in 3 Categories. On the night he won, Best Traditional Track for the...
Kevin Burke visits Ceoltóir
Kevin Burke visits Ceoltóir (HND in Irish Traditional Music Performance) to do a workshop just last week. Kevin is an ex member of The Bothy Band (and many other bands). He...