Cork City Music Generation

Music Generation Cork City (MGCC) is a music education programme that works in partnership with community based musicians and music organisations to make performance music education programmes available in the places where children live, play, and go to school across Cork City.

Programmes in and after school include traditional Irish music tuition, woodwind and brass tuition, rock, pop, rap and choral work.

Partners include GMC Beats, Music in Community (MiC), Creative Tradition, Cork Academy of Music, Cork Barrack Street Band, Ballyphehane Youth Project (Foróige), SoundOUT, Youth Work Ireland Cork, Music Mash Up and ARTlifeCULTURE.

A major project of Cork City Music Education Partnership, MGCC is part of Music Generation, Ireland’s national music education programme, initiated by Music Network, co-funded by U2, The Ireland Funds and The Department of Education and Skills, and locally in partnership with Cork City Council, Cork ETB, The HSE, CIT and UCC.