Marist Church to host musical treat this Sunday

The Marist Church in Dundalk will be the setting for an afternoon concert of choral and orchestral music on Sunday next at 5pm.

Dundalk’s Clermont Chorale and the Fr McNally Chamber Orchestra will be joined by Dublin choir Cantairí Avondale in a performance which will include the Schubert Mass in G, the Capriol Suite by Warlock, Bruckner’s Ave Maria, the Pizzicato Polka by Strauss and many other well-loved choral and orchestral pieces.

Tickets for the event are available from Brendan Marmion’s on Clanbrassil Street (€12 and €10 concession), from any choir or orchestra member or at the door.

Songs for a Starlit Night in Blackrock church tonight

New Dublin Voices will bring their show ‘Songs for a Starlit Night’ to St Oliver Plunkett’s Church in Blackrock tonight at 8pm.

Clermont Chorale will be guests on the night with tickets, priced €12 for standard admission or €8 for concession, available here.

Clermont Chorale score a hat trick in Navan Choral Festival

Clermont Chorale

Local choir Clermont Chorale took home three first prizes in the Navan Choral Festival last weekend. The choir, under the baton of Irene Barr from Blackrock, were awarded first prize in the Ladies Choir section, the Popular/Gospel section and finished off their day by winning the Rotary Club of Ireland competition.

The adjudicators praised the choir’s creativity, sensitivity and musicality, saying their performance of the gospel song “Didn’t my Lord Deliver Daniel” was “mesmeric”.

The choir will travel to Limerick at the end of May on the invitation of Limerick Choral Festival to perform in a gala concert in the city as part of the City of Culture celebrations.