{"id":1393,"date":"2014-11-14T12:33:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T12:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gcluimnigh.com\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2014-11-14T12:33:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T12:33:24","slug":"ava-hits-high-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcluimnigh.ie\/ga\/ava-hits-high-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Ava hits high note!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"post-title single\"><a title=\"Permanent Link to Limerick\u2019s Ava in tune for YADA songwriting award\" href=\"http:\/\/www.limerickpost.ie\/2014\/11\/13\/limericks-ava-in-tune-for-yada-songwriting-award\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Limerick\u2019s Ava in tune for YADA songwriting award<\/a><\/h1>\n<div class=\"meta single\"><span class=\"meta-author\"><a title=\"Posts by Liam Togher\" href=\"http:\/\/www.limerickpost.ie\/author\/liam-tohger\/\" rel=\"author\">Liam Togher<\/a> | <\/span><span class=\"meta-date\">November 2014<\/span><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-106100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.limerickpost.ie\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/ava-barett-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"SONY DSC\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" \/><strong>GCLuimnigh student took home a coveted songwriting award at the Young Artist Development Awards (YADA) at the Lyrath Estate Hotel in Kilkenny.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sixteen year-old Ava Barett who attends Gaelchol\u00e1iste Luimnigh, won the award and a \u20ac25,000 prize for her song \u20181964\u2019, which will now be recorded as a single in a professional recording studio.<\/p>\n<p>Ava, who has been writing songs since she was \u201cable to speak\u201d, was overwhelmed to have won the prize and she is eagerly awaiting the opportunity to practice her childhood passion on a grander scale.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cIt means so much to me because it means that I can show what I have been doing and show my passion to the people of Ireland. That means a huge amount to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI play once a year usually in my school\u2019s talent show and that\u2019s just for the craic. It\u2019s not to win. It\u2019s always been to show my thoughts on the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not trying to be famous. I\u2019m just trying to show my view of the world. The writing of the lyrics is probably the most important part for me but forming it is the next most important thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ava\u2019s gift for songwriting was borne out of singing stories to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in her infant years, although she admitted that when she began writing songs, she did not intend to be the person performing them.<\/p>\n<p>That changed when she was in fifth class in primary school, when she was inspired by a friend who \u201chad the best voice that I had ever heard\u201d to learn guitar and, subsequently, add chords to the lyrics she had written.<\/p>\n<p>Ava explained that she has gone on to learn several other instruments, saying: \u201cI took up banjolele and ukulele and I started playing with different instruments that are quite small.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like to have small instruments to make different sounds that I might not have heard before. My mother calls my music \u2018toytown pop\u2019 because I use toybox toys to make music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The YADAs are a creative and educational initiative run by the Young Artists Association of Ireland, a not-for-profit organisation established to provide an industry-safe environment for aspiring young artists.<\/p>\n<p>The awards were hosted by RT\u00c9 presenters\u00a0Stephen Byrne and Diana Bunici, with the judging panel including\u00a0music producer Ray Traynor, singer\/songwriter Oisin Kavanagh\u00a0 and songwriter Don Mescall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limerick\u2019s Ava in tune for YADA songwriting award Liam Togher | November 2014 GCLuimnigh student took home a coveted songwriting award at the Young Artist Development Awards (YADA) at the Lyrath Estate Hotel in Kilkenny. Sixteen year-old Ava Barett who attends Gaelchol\u00e1iste Luimnigh, won the award and a \u20ac25,000 prize for her song \u20181964\u2019, which &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/gcluimnigh.ie\/ga\/ava-hits-high-note\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ava hits high note!<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ava hits high note! - Gaelchol\u00e1iste Luimnigh<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gcluimnigh.ie\/ava-hits-high-note\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ga_IE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ava hits high note! - Gaelchol\u00e1iste Luimnigh\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Limerick\u2019s Ava in tune for YADA songwriting award Liam Togher | November 2014 GCLuimnigh student took home a coveted songwriting award at the Young Artist Development Awards (YADA) at the Lyrath Estate Hotel in Kilkenny. 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