Song with message of hope raising funds for Childline

Twenty-two students from Taylors Hill Secondary School have combined forces with Limerick’s Ceol na Mara Youth Orchestra and the professional WhistleBlast Quartet to compose and perform a song, aimed at delivering a message about mental wellbeing while helping to raise funds for Ireland’s listening service for children and young people, ISPCC Childline.

The piece was devised by the young musicians as part of the Composition Programme for 2020, run by the WhistleBlast Quartet, made up of Conor Linehan (piano), Ken Edge (saxophone and clarinet), Oonagh Keogh (violin) and Mary Curran (French horn).

The track, Then We’ll Meet Again, is now available online and includes an Irish Sign Language interpretation by Raphael Greene.

The Composition Programme is one of a series of outreach / performance programmes devised by members of the WhistleBlast Quartet to facilitate young people and the wider community to engage with high-quality live music. This year’s scheme was supported by Galway’s Town Hall Theatre.

“We had been working with 200 students nationwide pre-lockdown,” explains Mary Curran. “We were actually workshopping with the Galway students in the video at the very moment the restrictions were announced,” she adds.

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

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