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Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann is preparing for a busy school year with their new initiative ‘Trad is Fab’ which was officially launched by Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairi Quinn TD today. ‘Trad is Fab’ is specifically developed and arranged by the Comhaltas Meitheal Education committee to introduce primary school pupils to Traditional Irish music, song and dance. Each pack includes a DVD, five classroom posters, a teachers workbook and pupil worksheets for third and fourth class pupils.

The programme is designed to give the pupil the opportunity to recognise the important instruments in traditional music and the two other important elements, singing and dancing. Questions and guided activities place an emphasis on the key elements of pulse, beat, tempo, duration, pitch and timbre and a variety of time signatures are introduced in the ‘Tune Types’ section.