And why shouldn’t it, as perhaps the most inspirational song to come along in a very long time.
The song was recorded by Nikki Yanofsky, Montreal’s 16 year old signing sensation.  This young lady has a ton of talent and a wonderful voice.
“I Believe” was played on CTV during the Olympics coverage no doubt will be playing in our heads for quite some time to come.

If you’re looking for “I Believe” sheet music for voice and piano, give us a call here at Ryson’s.

Hope you enjoy the video;

To order your copy simply give us a call.

Now, Alfred Music Publishing presents this stunning album-matching folio with piano/vocal/guitar arrangements. This songbook includes a complete biographical sketch created specifically for this publication.

The titles include;

• Wild Horses
• I Dreamed a Dream
• Cry Me a River
• How Great Thou Art
• You’ll See
• Daydream Believer
• Up to the Mountain
• Amazing Grace
• Who I Was Born to Be
• Proud
• The End of the World
• Silent Night

If you’d like to order this wonderful music book from Susan Boyle, simply give us a call.

Not much in the way of winter weather,  but the specials are arriving on the Santa Express at Ryson’s.  Twinkling  Christmas decorations are up,  students are playing the sound of good cheer and our staff are in a holly jolly mood.

Looking for that special musical instrument? Or perhaps rare piece of music for your favorite musician?  Order now to fulfill your musical gift list for Christmas.

This year Santa’s brought some terrific holiday specials including; Typhoon Electric Guitar Amplifier bag strap and guitar, with picks and our exclusive Rysons 2 year warranty.

Everything you need to be a rock star for $225.00.

Rudolph and the gang are prancing over the specials on all brass and woodwind instruments. “Look Santa they even have jingle bells, drums sets, hand drums, celtic drums, bass guitars and amplifiers as well as mandolins, violin with cases and bows sets, all at super Holiday Savings!

Christmas Elvs are reminding us not to forget all the great accessories for your favorite musician; strings, picks, reeds,  pedals, drum sticks, metronomes, tuners and much more.

Mrs. Claus is having a great time in the music book section with all the new Christmas books from “White Christmas”, “Readers Digest Christmas”, “Hilarious Christmas Books” , even Taylor Swift and Hanna Montana.  Other books to make great gifts include  Frank Sinatra, Beatles, Rock, Pop, Blues  and many more.  “Santa this is a large book store”, says Mrs. Claus.

This year’s annual Christmas Concert at Silver Spire Dec. 20  at 1:00 in the afternoon. All proceeds go to Silver Spire “Out  Of The Cold”.   Just $10.00 per family and if you would like to bring a toy for the needy that would be gratefully appreciated.

The short story; “The Day the Welland Canal Monster met Santa”,  is a Child’s delight and available at Ryson’s Studios . It is a great book during the festive season, written by local author Frank Proctor who can also be found on AM740 Toronto.  Join Tiny, Clarence, and the Welland Canal in a must read story for the holiday season.

Lots of stuff going on with our teaching staff;

• First, we’d like to welcome back Matthew Therrian who has joined our teaching staff as a piano instructor. Matthew is also acting as the Music Director at Silver Spire. As a Music Graduate from Brock University Matthew received his BA in Music, he also earned his Accredited Registered Certified Teacher certificate, (A.R.C.T.), at a early age.

• Danielle Oegema, one of our violin teachers has just released a new Cd called ‘Zusters” with all original music.

• Lauren Gasbarini one of our voice instructors is arranging several of our students in a choir for the Christmas concert.  Lauren will also be finishing her broadcasting course at Niagara this year, and will be hosting the Santa Claus parade in Niagara Falls for Niagara College on November 28 airing on Cogeco.

• Dave Tufford, Torry Doyle, Jordan Phelan and Tim Popek will be putting band groups together for our Christmas concert.

If you’re looking for some great music for your Holiday Season event The Golden Hammers and The Rockin Daisies are available for your music needs. Call Anne at 905 682-6832

A large shipment of Beaver Creek guitars arrived today including the backpackers guitars, a great Christmas gift.

Speaking of great gifts,  music lessons are a gift, that last a lifetime.
Our Rysons Gift Cards are available in all amounts and can be redeemed for musical instruments, instrument repairs, or music lessons and books.

Ryson’s Studio of Music is open Monday to Friday 9 to 9 Saturday 9 to 5.

If I can be of service please give me a call at 905 682-6832 or anne@rysonsmusic.com

Best Wishes,
Anne.

P.S.
Ryson’s is Home of the 2 year Warranty…don’t take chances on your new musical instrument.

“The Richest Child is Poor Without a Musical Education”

This is one of the hottest pieces of sheet music we’ve seen in awhile!

Legally Blond The Musical has arrived at Ryson’s.

The series from publisher, Hal Leonard, features 14 songs from the Broadway musical Legally Blonde Soundtrack, including;

• Bend And Snap
• Ireland
• Legally Blonde
• Legally Blonde Remix
• Omigod You Guys
• Positive
• Serious
• So Much Better
• Take It Like A Man
• There! Right There!
• What You Want
• Whipped Into Shape

If you’re a Legally Blonde fan, I hope you’ll enjoy the video below of “Legally Blonde The Musical” on You Tube.

Belwin, formerly known as Belwin Mills, and now a division of Alfred Publishing, has a long history of publishing high quality, and great sheet music for music teachers to use in their instruction for jazz music students.

If you’re a music teacher we’ll be happy to send you the Belwin Jazz Ensemble sampler kit.  The kit includes a booklet which details all of the pieces in each colour coded grouping, plus it also includes a CD with a sound sample of each selection in the Jazz Ensemble collection.  This is a great way to review the 2009 Belwin Jazz Music series before you make your purchase.

Upon your request, we’ll send you the Jazz Ensemble sampler kit, free. And we’ll even pay to ship it to you anywhere in Canada.  We’ll also ship outside of Canada, but shipping charges would apply.

Click here to view the Belwin Jazz Ensemble.

Well, to start off 2009, I thought it a good idea to let you know about our new sheet music releases.

Here’s a cute little video showing just a very few of our new releases:

We are proud to offer the largest selection of piano sheet music, guitar sheet music, beginner sheet music, and sheet music and music books for all instruments and vocals.

If you can’t find a piece of sheet music, give us a call.  Our resources are plentiful and many times we’re able to find your special piece of sheet music or music book that simply can’t be found elsewhere.

We wish you all a very Happy New Year!
Anne.

How about Christmas sheet music or music book?

Here at Ryson’s we have a great selection of Christmas music.  Many fine artists young and old from all genres (rock, rhythm and blues, jazz, country)  If we don’t have what you’re looking for, there’s a good chance we can still get it before Christmas.

Music books are available in all skill levels from beginners to experts, for all instruments.

Let nothing you dismay; even the newest student can play Christmas Carols such as ”Jolly Old St. Nicholas,” “Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer” and the favourite, “Silent Night.”

We also have a great selection of Traditional Christmas books such as: “The Readers Digest Merry Christmas Songbook,” “A Family Christmas around the Piano,” “Key for the Kingdom,” and “Handel’s Messiah” just to name a few.

There are some hilarious holiday songs as well: “Grandma’s Killer Fruitcake,” “Grandpa’s going to sue the pants off Santa,” “The Chipmunk Song,” “Santa Claus on De Coconut Tree” and many more.

Come on in, or give us a call to see if we have your favorite Christmas sheet music or music book in stock.

Our store hours for the holidays are:

Monday to Friday 9:00am-9:00pm,

Saturday 9:00am-5:00pm

Sunday (in December) ll:00am-4:00pm.

MAY ALL THE MAGIC OF THIS SEASON BE YOURs AND MAY YOU BE FILLED WITH LOVE AND JOY AS YOU CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS AND THE NEW YEAR.

• Toronto November 16
• Pen Centre St. Catharines November 2
• Niagara Falls November, 29
• St. Catharines, Nov. 30
• Grimsby December 6 starting at 5.30
• Niagara On The Lake, December 13

• Thorold December13 at 5.30

And don’t forget the Golden Hammers.  This time the boys will be performing in the food court at the Pen Centre in St.Catharines.  The date is December 5th  at 7.00 P.M.

Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Pere Noel and Kris Kringle are a few of the names given over the years to this jolly man.  The popular image of Santa Claus was created by German -American cartoonist Thomas Nast (l840-1902) who drew a new image annually.  By l880, Santa evolved into the form we now recognize.

Christmas sheet music and music books have arrived at Ryson’s Music Studio.  We now have a great selection of  Christmas music; some of which include Cds.
Many of our music students are now playing and singing Christmas songs for their music lessons.

Our Christmas concert will be Dec. 21, 2008 at Silver Spire with all proceeds going to the “Out of the Cold” fundraising.  Tickets are $l0.00 per family.  Come one, Come all!  Join our CHRISTMAS Festivities and meet Santa.  Take pictures of your children with Santa in a beautiful yuletide setting.

Please remember Santa’s favourite cookies are frosted sugar cookies with a drink of milk or egg nog.  Don’t forget carrots for the reindeer and please leave a note.  Sometimes, if Santa’s not busy, he will write back.
Christmas movies will also be shown and advertised as well.
Our movies include A Christmas Carol, The Nut Cracker, Polar Express, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, White Christmas, Frosty The Snowman, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and many more!

For those little drummer boys, we have a craft for you!  Here are instructions on how to make a drum:

Here’s what you’ll need:

• an empty oatmeal box with a cover
• yarn
• pen
• two pencils
• 2 spools
• construction paper
• crayons

Before you start, to make your musical drum, you can decorate oatmeal box  with construction paper, crayons to make a colourful effect.

Place the cover on the box, and use a pen to make a hole in the center of the cover and the center of the  bottom.  Through these holes pull the yarn long enough to hang around the child’s neck and down to the waist.  For the drum sticks, place the spools at the end of the pencil and secure with glue if necessary.  Drum away!!  If you want cymbals, two matching pot covers, yarn and ribbon.  Tie the ribbon or yarn around the handles of the pot covers.  Strike together to play.

Happy Holidays, and have a Musical Christmas.  Remember our concert for “Out of the Cold” December 21, 2008 at 1pm, at the Silver Spire and visit Santa.