Some highlights from our latest concert in Clifden
Some of our singers joined Director Máire Ní Dhuibhir in West Cork earlier this month for the Courtmacsherry Rhythms, to celebrate 200 years of the Courtmacsherry Lifeboat. Here are some highlights:
Busy rehearsing for our participation in the concert with the University of Southern Indiana (USI)Chamber Choir on 29th May. Sounding good!
We are really excited to have started rehearsing Lumières, by Jacques Loussier for our concert at the Clifden Arts Festival this September. The composer describes the piece as a “21st Century Baroque Mass” – it takes the traditional Latin sung Mass, but pairs it with a contemporary, rhythmic musical style fit for the 21st Century. …
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Our autumn concerts: Stepping Stones: From St Patrick to U2
STOP PRESS 📰: due to renovations in the Gothic Church, the Kylemore concert will be in the Monastic Church
On Sunday 20 March Cantairi Chonamara led a commemoration event in Clifden to remember and celebrate the lives of all those who died during the Covid-19 pandemic, in the North Connemara area. The event consisted of singing from the choir, readings and poems, planting a commemorative yew tree and the siting of a specially commissioned…
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A weekend of art and music in Clifden. 31 October – 3 November 2019.
The choir’s most recent production was for the Clifden Arts Festival on Sunday 29 September in St Joseph’s Church, Clifden. ‘Music to Die For: The Funeral Rites of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’ was a dramatic presentation of the funeral that Mozart never had at the end of his short life. Using several movements from Mozart’s Requiem,…
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