WHEN Majella Swan set up her very own music college 35 years ago, she picked the motto ‘Providing music for life’ – and how true that turned out to be.

CARLOW College of Music is about to celebrate a milestone anniversary by hosting a concert in Cobden Hall at Carlow College on Wednesday 1 October.

The talented young musicians who received a prize in last month’s Carlow College of Music festival performed an outstanding evening concert in aid of Carlow National School, Green Road

The Music Festival was deemed a great success with more than 120 performances over two days

Students' wonderful talent put to excellent use

THE wonderfully talented students from Carlow College of Music brought the festive season to life recently with their uplifting Christmas concert ‘A time of wonder’.