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Link Music Academy Interview!

Link Music Academy is Derry’s newest centre for people of all ages to come and learn about a variety of different instruments and musical fields, as well as providing top quality spaces for local bands and musicians to come and hone their craft. I sat down with one of the founders and tutors at Link, Marc Forbes, to have a short chat about what Link Academy is and what it aims to do for the local musical community.

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Hello! So, give us a little insight on what Link Academy is all about, and what it aims to do for Derry’s musical community.

Marc: Basically, the idea of Link is to give people a space to work from. Whether it’s practice spaces for bands, teaching or studio work, we try to cover as many areas as possible. There are around ten different people teaching here at the moment, so we provide education, but it’s also a platform for employment.

Where did the idea for Link Academy spawn from?

Marc: Well, any kind of music work in Derry is all tied up and there are very few jobs available. We’re all music graduates, and we found there was very little work for musicians in the city. Me and Paddy (Danagher) used to live in a house together, and in the house we had a practice room and loads of amplifiers. For years, we’d always talked about opening a centre, so when we got the opportunity, the five of us came together and opened the centre.

How long did it take to get the centre up and running?

Marc: Well, the building used to be an old post office, and it took us about three months of renovating to get the place up to standard and get all the rest of the equipment that we needed. All of us were in every day painting, lifting carpet and putting carpets down. After those few months, we started applying for funding, and it’s going well now.

You try to keep as much of your services free for the community, correct?

Marc: Yeah. We’re a community interest company, which is basically a charity. None of us get paid for running Link Academy; we’re basically volunteers. So we try to get funding for any of the courses we run, so that it’s free for the people using them. We try to provide as much free services for people as we can.

What do you see in store for the future of Link Academy?

Marc: We’ll keep applying for funding so we can try to run as many different courses as possible; like song writing and recording. Hopefully it keeps on going, and we’ll keep on building as we go!

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