Rock ‘n’ Roll kids sign up to first Academy of Pop

MEET the country’s next popstars who have signed up for classes in Ireland’s very own school of rock.

The corridors of the CIT Cork School of Music (CSM), which normally resound to the sounds of Bach and Beethoven, are set to rock and roll from September with the opening of a rock and pop school — the Academy of Popular Music.

Developed in association with the CSM, it will offer graded tuition on Saturdays to budding rock and pop stars in popular singing, keyboard, electric guitar, bass and drums.