Showcase to benefit COPE

A Summer Choral Showcase taking place in Galway city this Saturday at 8pm, will raise much-needed funds for local charity COPE Galway, and give a taste of the breadth of musical talent in the city.

Galway Choral Association, directed by Norman Duffy, will present a show featuring choral arrangements of popular songs, spirituals and folk-songs.

The Scoil Íde National School choir from Salthill is also taking part, and so too is the NUIG Chamber Ensemble who will play excerpts from Bach’s Orchestral Suite No 2 in Bm. There will also be a male a capella performance.

“Our summer concert traditionally draws from a  range of sources, rather than focusing on just one work” says musical director Norman Duffy. “Although lighter than some of our typical works, the four-part settings of popular music like Strawberry Fields Forever by the Beatles and Stephen Foster’s Beautiful Dreamer are challenging to sing, while still being accessible to a wide audience.”

“We are delighted to give Scoil Íde’s choir a chance to sing for a general audience”  adds the Chairperson of Galway Choral Association Carol Duffy. ”We first met them  at the Mental Health Awareness Day concert last October and were stunned by their enthusiasm for music, and by the high standards which choir director Claire Hynes has reached with them.”

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.