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1000+ Singers International, National and Local Choirs 7 Choral Concerts Over 4 Days Competitions & Performances

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Contents ~ Clár Welcome Messages

Thursday Events

Anne Chambers Presentation on the life and times of Margaret Burke Sheridan -

Sunday Events Dawn Chorus Evening Community Concerts: Crossmolina Sings Westport Sings Useful Services

Friday Events

Evening Community Concerts: Ballina Sings! Ballintubber Sings! Newport Sings! Swinford Sings!

Saturday Events

Coach Hire Restaurants & Bars Choir Information

Choir Details

Our Sponsors

The Songway Choral Trail Details of Competitions, Adjudicators and Competition Venues Festival at a Glance Gala Concert

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Welcome Message from our Chairman Nóta ónár gCathaoirleach Welcome to our fourth festival We are delighted to welcome all the choirs, adjudicators and audiences to our fourth festival. Visitors to Mayo can experience fine scenery, great people and a relaxed pace of life. With so many new tourist-related developments in our county in recent years, it’s a great place to visit. Mayo is a central point on the new Wild Atlantic Way - a driving route stretching from Donegal in the North, to Cork in the South, along the spectacular Atlantic coast. Easy access from most European destinations via Ireland West International Airport, Knock, and direct rail connections from Dublin allows visiting choirs and guests to enjoy one of the most beautiful parts of our country. I would like to thank the various committees county-wide who make this venture possible every year, and in particular our dedicated executive committee. I would also like to thank each and every one of our volunteers, who make up this huge organisational team. Of course the key factor in staging this festival in Mayo is the strong choral tradition and the help from all choirs from Mayo who have been tremendous in assisting with the arrangements for the visiting choirs. We look forward to September when we will host the Canadian Orpheus Male Voice Choir during their tour of the West of Ireland, and to the first weekend in October when Mayo hosts the Irish Association of Barbershop Singers (IABS). This is all testament to the hard work put in by our committee, backed by the good will and support that’s in Mayo. The realisation that Mayo has the facilities for hosting such events has made the dream of a Mayo International Choral Festival a reality. Is Feidir Linn’ - our motto in Gaelic, meaning ‘Yes We Can’! From the very outset Mayo County Council, Fáilte Ireland, LEADER (South West Mayo Development Company), Mayo Choirs, Mayo Lions Clubs, the Mayo Association, Mayo accommodation providers and our many friends and local businesses, have all been very enthusiastic and supportive in their response to the initiative. Castlebar Municipal District have been particularly helpful this year as have Castlebar Town Council in previous years. Our neighbouring counties have also showed great interest, and I’d like to thank the Sligo International Choral Festival, the Derry International Choral Festival and also the Kiltimagh Choral Festival, Mayo, for their support. In particularly like to congratulate Joe Kelly on his many years driving the Sligo International Choral Festival, and we wish him health, happiness and relaxation as he retires from the role. We do hope to see you at one of the events during the festival. Edward (Eamonn) Horkan, Chairman, Mayo International Choral Festival

Edward Horkan, Chairman

Festival Committee Coiste na Féile

Top: Edward Horkan, Chairman, 2nd Row: Deirdre Lee, Anne Marie Gibbons, Olivia Mannion (Secretary), Vivienne Lee, (PRO), Jennifer Hiney. 3rd Row: L to R: Pat Jennings (Treasurer), Gerry Needham BL, Declan Durcan, Festival Director, Joe Rawson and Padraic McKeon.

Welcome Message from Festival Director Nóta ó Stiúrthóir na Féile Welcome and thank you

Declan Durcan, Festival Director

I’m delighted to be part of the fourth festival as it goes from strength to strength. Each year brings something new and this year we have our first visiting choir from Portugal - it’s very encouraging. It’s also heartening to see our festival extending to embrace all of Mayo, and this year, another first, there is a choral concert in Crossmolina, (in addition to Ballina, Ballintubber, Castlebar, Newport, Swinford and Westport). We continue to acknowledge Mayo’s heroes and heroines of song and music, with a fascinating presentation by Anne Chambers on the life and times of Margaret Burke Sheridan. I’d like to thank all the team that make up this complex network of volunteers, driven by their love of music and the betterment of where we live. Our committee has worked hard behind the scenes to coordinate it all and make it happen, as have all the choirs in Mayo who are big supporters of the festival. Local media - press, radio, TV and online also plays a big part and we are grateful. We acknowledge the assistance from Mayo County Council, our main festival sponsor and Castlebar Municipal District. Fáilte Ireland has again been very supportive and a big thank you goes to the accommodation providers who supported our syllabus. It is heartening to see so much support coming from National and Local Authorities and their realisation that events like these are so important to each community in terms of their cultural and economic values. A big thank you to all venue providers, the various community groups, and to our 100+ volunteers and our suppliers. Finally a big thank you to all our many sponsors who continue to see the current and potential benefit of this festival. 3

I wish to take this opportunity to especially welcome all of the visiting choirs to Mayo, in particular, those choirs and guests who are travelling from abroad this year. There is also a strong neighbourly welcome to all the choirs and their followers travelling from the four provinces in Ireland, needless to say, you are all welcome to celebrate in this shared love of singing. The Mayo International Choral Festival is now in its fourth year and it is very encouraging to see the festival continue to develop. I particularly want to congratulate the organisers on their achievements to date, and to thank the participants that continue to support the festival as it grows and prospers. This festival is testament to the strong passion toward singing and music in County Mayo and I again thank the choirs who have helped in making the festival such a success. I hope you all have a good experience from your time in Mayo and most importantly, that you enjoy these choral performances. An Taoiseach Enda Kenny, TD. It gives me great pleasure to welcome visitors to Ireland and particularly to Mayo. It’s encouraging to see choirs from the USA, Portugal, Scotland and England, as well as from all parts of Ireland. I hope every visitor gets a chance to enjoy other aspects of Mayo, in between resting their voices! Mayo has lots to offer tourists and is a key location on the ‘Wild Atlantic Way’- the longest defined coastal drive in the world (2500km), that embraces the coastline from Donegal in the north to Cork in the south. It’s a route where land and sea collide, where untamed beauty abounds. Mayo is a great base to discover the northern or southern routes - or both because there’s so much to do and see. We are delighted that yet another new cycling and walking greenway has opened at the start of this month in Mayo, linking Castlebar to the National Museum of Country Life, at Turlough. It’s a lovely route, and meanders alongside a river and open plains and wooded areas. I congratulate the festival organisers, who again this year, continue to put Mayo on the world choral map. Michael Ring, TD, Minister of State, Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. On behalf of Mayo County Council it gives me great pleasure to extend a hearty welcome to all visiting choirs, and a thank you to the local choirs for making this superb festival happen each year. Mayo County Council is delighted to be associated with the event and I would encourage visitors to, during their stay, sample some of the other attractions in Mayo that we are very proud of. Mayo is arguably the most vibrant outdoor adventure hub of Ireland and boasts clean, fresh air, cycle tracks (including the Great Western Greenway), hills, mountains, lakes and rivers, all waiting to be explored! In addition we are proud of our performance facilities, including theatres and arts centres in Ballina, Belmullet, Castlebar, Claremorris and many other fine performance venues around the county. Our churches are wonderful buildings, and it’s heartening to see the cooperation between all the community groups. A new ‘Mayo Day’ took place at the start of May this year, and is now in the calendar for the start of May each year. For all information on Mayo, visit www.mayo.ie The strength of this festival is it’s spread across several communities in Mayo - long may it continue. Congratulations to the committee and volunteers, the choirs in Mayo and the many sponsors. Damien Ryan, Cathaoirleach Mayo County Council 4

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Thurs: Presentation on the life and times of Margaret Burke Sheridan Fri: Community Choral Concerts in Mayo

1889 - 1958 Hosted by Anne Chambers author of the biography 'La Sheridan Adorable Diva'

THURSDAY 21st May

CASTLEBAR MAYO COUNTY LIBRARY 8pm. Free Admission Includes drinks reception 6

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Margaret Burke Sheridan The Woman Behind The Voice As part of Mayo International Choral Festival honouring Mayo’s heros and heroines in song and music, the festival is proud to host this presentation, at Mayo County Library, Castlebar, 8pm, Thursday 21st May. Free Adm. Anne Chambers author of the biography 'La Sheridan Adorable Diva' presents: 'Margaret Burke Sheridan - The Woman Behind the Voice' with music and memorabilia of the Castlebar-born Prima Donna.

MARGARET BURKE SHERIDAN For decades the true story of Castlebar-born prima donna Margaret Burke Sheridan lay hidden beneath a layer of anecdotal stories, speculation and deliberate invention, much of it contributed to by the Diva herself. She was an only child and an orphan, she implied. She was ‘discovered’ by Marconi. She had love affairs with Puccini and Toscanini. The Pope wanted to make her a countess. An Italian aristocrat, whom she had rejected, shot himself in the opera house as she sang on stage. Melodramatic stuff: but what was truth and what was invention? Her centenary in 1989 had brought her memory out of oblivion and as a fellow townswoman, I was asked to write ‘something’ to mark the event. That ‘something’ turned into a three year’s of travel and research in archives throughout Italy, in England and Ireland. But despite the copious records I garnered about her artistic career, the story behind the voice continued to remain illusive until, fellow Mayoman Garech Browne, solved my dilemma, when he opened the door to a room in his house crammed with cardboard boxes containing the personal papers and effects of ‘Maggie from Mayo’. And what a treasure-trove it turned out to be. Letters and telegrams from her background and childhood in Castlebar, Eccles Street in Dublin, to London and right through her remarkable operatic career in Italy, to her final years in Dublin. Letters from her many mentors, such as the Nationalist parliamentarian, TP O’Connor, from Marconi, from numerous admirers and friends, all threw light on the path which had taken her from the stage of the Town Hall in Castlebar to operatic glory. Invitations to ‘at homes’ from famous English society hostesses as well as dozens of calling cards from titled Italian admirers in Milan and Rome, confirmed her celebrity status. A 1921 New Year’s Eve dinner menu from the Palace Hotel, Milan, which offered a desert named ‘Fruits a la Sheridan’ bore testimony to her nomadic lifestyle, as did the numerous hotel and restaurant bills she had accumulated over the space of 40 years. One by one the cardboard boxes laid bare the intimate life of the diva - without her operatic costume and make-up. Numerous medical and pharmacy receipts, empty nasal sprays and decongestants, suggested a reason for the limited number of her operatic appearances and for her

abrupt retirement from the stage. Receipts from haute couture salons in Milan, Paris and London confirmed the ‘star’ persona she presented off-stage. Contracts and agreements with agents, managers, opera houses and recording companies; telegrams and greeting cards from famous names; the tissue paper theatre posters, one announcing her dramatic debut as Mimi in Rome in 1918: contracts with La Scala: her own stage directions for Madama Butterfly and Andrea Chenier; photographs of her as Butterfly, Mimi, Desdemona, Maddalena and the many other roles she made famous; photographs of happy interludes with friends in the lakeside paradise of Bellagio; on tour in Italy with operatic colleagues. Family photographs and letters from her brother Paddy, her nephews John and David in Ottowa, her sister Hester and her niece Moira in England, blew apart her assertion that, as well as an orphan, she was an only child. From their correspondence it became apparent that a family feud had made her choose to ignore her immediate family during her career. The names and rhymes of school friends in Eccles Street in her 1909 autograph book. A rosary beads, numerous religious quotations copied in her florid handwriting, with which I was to become so familiar, confirmed the loneliness and lack of confidence that lay beneath the prima donna persona she presented in public, during her dreary retirement in Dublin. Hidden deep in one of her handbags perhaps the most poignant artefact of all, part of a telegram with the words ‘ti adoro’ above the name of the one love in her life as well as an anguished unsent letter telling him she could never become the lover of a married man. Star treatment in 1924 on the front page of the prestigious Italian arts newspaper Melodrammatica. In the carefully folded copy preserved among her papers, her photograph, dressed in the magnificent gown given to her by Puccini for her triumphant role as Manon, together with rave reviews by Italian opera critics, further confirmed the dizzy heights she had reached in her career. Her cheque book (Coutts on the Strand) bank statements, royalties from HMV, showed a modest income and confirmed the reason why she needed the patronage of wealthy friends from the day she left Castlebar to the day she died. Her grave in Glasnevin was paid for by the American millionairess, Ruth Haughton Axe, the last in a long line of benefactors. Over the following months the contents of these cardboard boxes helped me complete the identikit of a my fellow townswoman, a wonderful, warm, witty, acerbic, complex woman and revealed the depth of loneliness, uncertainty and regret that lay hidden behind her brief but, oh so bright, time in the spotlight. ©Anne Chambers. 2015 7

Enchiriadis, Dublin Mayo Male Voice Choir Ballintubber Abbey Choir Concert and Festival opening by

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Ballintubber Sings Festival Opening Concert

Concert Programme Opening Address by Mr Joe Kennedy

Mayo Male Voice Choir Stout Hearted Men Romberg / Hammerstein II. Arr Walter Scotso

Carrickfergus Irish folk song . Arr Gwyn Arch

Sweet Georgia Brown Bernie/ Pinkard. Arr Kirby Shaw

Enchiriadis Richte Mich Gott- Mendelssohn

Stetit Angelus Dubra

As Time Goes By

Raglan Road

Herman Hupfeld. Arr Walter Latzko

Kavanagh

An American Trilogy

There is Another Sky

Traditional. Arr Mickey Newbury

Antognini

What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor Traditional. Arr David Eddleman

Vigilate

Ballintubber Abbey Choir

Jerusalem

Veni Sancte Spiritus

Byrd

Trad U.S.

arr. Sr Frances

As I went down to the river to pray Alison Krauss

Festival opening by Mr. Joe Kennedy: By any standards, Joe Kennedy has led a remarkable life. In 1953, at the age of 16, Joe left his native Doocastle, Co. Mayo to seek his fortune across the Irish Sea, singing at the dancehalls of London and Manchester before establishing a highly successful property development and construction firm in Manchester that became one of the largest in the UK. At one stage, Kennedy's employed over 800 staff, including countless Irish Men. But it is for his work as a philanthropist that Joe Kennedy is best known. He established the Kennedy Charitable Foundation and has contributed to numerous charitable causes in Ireland and England, and has been heavily involved in the Northern Ireland Peace Process. Joe joined the Board of Ireland West Airport Knock in January 2002 and is the current Chairman and also a Trustee, as he continues his strong advocacy for Western development whilst remaining true to his roots. 9

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Ballina Arts Centre Tickets available Ballina Arts Centre Booking Advisable: (096) 73593

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Ballina Chamber Choir Musical Director ~ Niamh O’Kelly

WITH SpeCIAl GueSTS, fRoM enGlAnD, THe 65-STRonG

English Concert Singers Musical Director ~ Dr. Roy Wales

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Ballina Sings Ballina Chamber Choir with guests The English Concert Singers Ballina Chamber Choir

English Concert Singers Accompanist – Tim Rhys-Morgan Conductor – ROY WALES

Musical Director - Niamh O’Kelly

Deo Gracias

Salve Regina

Benjamin Britten

Javier Busto

Salvum fac populum Tuum Domine Ard Tigh Cuain

Paul Patterson

arr. N. O’Kelly

Female Ensemble

Hocsti, Hodai arr. N. O’Kelly

Gloria (from ‘Missa Brevis’) Benjamin Britten

Cantemus

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Lajos Bardos

lift thine eyes (from ‘elijah’) F. Mendelssohn

Ain't Misbehavin’ arr. N. O’Kelly

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This little Babe (from ‘A Ceremony of Carols’) Benjamin Britten

lux Aeterna

Male Ensemble

Michelle Rouche

Benedictus es

priests’ Chorus (from ‘The Magic flute’) W. A. Mozart

Eriks Esenvalds

every Time I feel the Spirit \

When I'm 64

arr. Alan Simmons

Lennon & McCartney

Softly as I leave you \

arr. Alan Simmons

ubi Caritas Ola Gjeilo

Cantate Domino

English Concert Singers Cantique de Jean Racine

Michelle Rouche

G. Fauré

Goin’ up to Glory arr. André Thomas

Combined Choirs Hallelujah Chorus (from ‘Messiah’) G. F. Handel 11

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Newport Sings Programme Cór Mhaigh Eo Great God of love Robert Lucas Pearsall 1795-1856

A un giro sol de begl'occhi Claudio Monteverdi 1567-1643

Crucem Tuam Adoramus Domine Pawel Lukaszewski born 1968

Cibavit eos William Byrd 1540-1623

Sleep Eric Whitacre born 1970

exultate Deo Scarlatti 1660-1725

In Memoriam from The Vauday Part Songs : Patrick Hawes born 1958

loch lomond traditional Arr. Jonathan Quick

CODA A selection of songs and music from the eclectic Coda Coda is a Mayo based group of seven singers and musicians who developed their own richly-harmonised approach to vocal performance from diverse vocal and instrumental backgrounds, including folk, trad, blues, rock and pop music, uniquely complemented by their multi-part vocal harmony experience gained from classical choral music. Coda released their first CD ‘mouthmusic’ November 2013Coda offer 7-part harmonies in an eclectic mix of musical styles including Celtic and North American music, traditional and contemporary folk songs, original compositions and popular songs from sources as diverse as Clannad, Tom Waits, Van Morrison and The Beatles.

Their repertoire comprises both a capella arrangements and songs with instrumental accompaniment as well as traditional Irish music. In January this year they performed at Dublin’s Templebar Tradfest to great acclaim. They will be performing in Westport’s New Town Hall Theatre on July 3rd. A concert, surely not to be missed. Coda comprises Declan Askin, Alan Drumm, Conall Ó Domhnaill, Brian Lennon, Mike Cannon, Steve Bryant and Leonard Kelly. ‘The West is wide awake and in full voice....a confident, robust debut from Coda’ The Irish Times

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Oban Gaelic Choir, Scotland Gracenotes Swinford Parish Choir Francie McNicholas Fr James McDonagh/ Antoinette Byrne Mayo School of Music Youth Choir Tickets: €12 available on the door or from: Eurospar, Gavaghans, Mellett’s & Spain’s or from 087 2573752 Part proceeds to the

Swinford Parish Building Fund

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Swinford Sings Programme Part One

Part Two

Mayo School of Music Youth Choir

Swinford Parish Choir

Danny Boy - Traditional popular - from Wicked Run - by G. lightbody and J. Quinn let it Go - from frozen

Top of The World Richard Carpenter.

evening prayer E. Humperdinck

California Dreamin’ John Phillips and Michelle Phillips

Francie McNicholas Accompanist:

Antoinette Byrne.

Fr James McDonnagh Accompanist:

Antoinette Byrne.

Requiem for A Solider Michael Kamen and Frank Musker

Traditional Air

lily Marlene

The Wave and The Spade

Norbert Schultze

Joannie Madden

Gracenotes

Oban Gaelic Choir Scotland

Illumina le Tenebre Joan Szymko

Benedictus es Eriks Esenwalds

Dulaman

Traditional and arranged by Sileas Sinclair

A Dómhnaill nan Dómhall (Donald of the Donalds)

Michael McGlynn

An t-Aparan Goirid

Babylon’s fallen

(The story of Jessie of Banranald, uist)

Traditional spiritual – arrangement Kari Ala-Pollanen

Gur Tu Mo Bhean Chomain (My Beloved Woman)

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Competitions Songway Choral Trail Gala Choral Concert

Mayo International Choral Festival Saturday 23rd May, 2015

y a w g n The So l i a r T l Chora A series of outdoor and indoor mini performances bringing the festival onto the streets and into the community. Adm free. Weather Permitting for outdoor performances. Time

Event / Location

Choirs / Artistes

11am

Mayo Memorial Peace Park, Castlebar

Oban Gaelic Choir, Scotland

11am

Mayo General Hospital Foyer (indoor)

Park Singers, Dublin

Open to public

11.30am

Tesco Foyer, Castlebar

Voz Nua, Portugal

12noon

Supervalu Foyer

Cill Aodain Choral Society

12noon

Mayo Memorial Peace Park, Castlebar

St Mary’s College Singers, Dublin

12.30pm

Plaza opposite Prendergasts Clothing

Marine Singers

1.10pm

Mayo Memorial Peace Park, Castlebar

Voz Nua, Portugal

1.10pm

Supervalu, Castlebar

Western Voices

1.30pm

Tesco Foyer, Castlebar

St Mary’s College Singers, Dublin

2pm

Plaza opposite Prendergasts Clothing

Westport Singers

2.30pm

Tesco Foyer, Castlebar

Athlone a cappella

Sacred Heart Hospital, Castlebar

Men’s Shed Choir, Castlebar

2.30pm

Open to residents and their friends and family only

4pm

Supervalu, Castlebar

BladeFour

4.30pm

Supervalu, Castlebar

Westport Singers

5.30pm

Cox’s, Linenhall St, Castlebar

No Half Measures, Note-Orious Four, Tone Cold Sober and Sandbars

Competitions Comórtais Competitions are open to a public audience. Admission of €5 covers all competition venues.

TIME Sat 8.30pm 23rd May

EVENT, NAME AND DETAILS Competition A, Premier Royal Theatre, Castlebar. In assoc. Mayo County Council

Sat 9am 23rd May

Competition B, Four Part Choirs GMIT, Castlebar. In assoc. Ashford Castle

Sat 10.30am 23rd May

Competition C, Choirs from Ireland GMIT, Castlebar. In assoc. Mayo County Council

Sat 1.30pm 23rd May

Margaret Bourke Sheridan - Comp D, Female Voices

Sat 12.10pm 23rd May

John Feeney - Competition E, Male Voices

Sat 3pm 23rd May Sat 9am, 23rd May Sat 3pm 23rd May

GMIT, Castlebar. In assoc. Mayo County Council

GMIT, Castlebar. In assoc. Ashford Castle

Competition F, Sacred Music Holy Rosary, Castlebar. In assoc. Mayo County Council

Competition G, Gospel Choirs Christchurch, Castlebar. In assoc. Mayo County Council

Competition H, Gaelic / Celtic Language Amhrán i nGaeilge nó i dTeanga Ceilteach. GMIT, Castlebar. In assoc. Gnó Mhaigh Eo

Sat 4.30pm 23rd May

Competition i, Barbershop Chorus GMIT, Castlebar. In assoc. Castlebar Town Council

Sat 3pm

Competition J, Barbershop Chorus

23rd May

GMIT, Castlebar. In assoc. Castlebar Town Council

Sat 10am 23rd May

Delia Murphy - Comp K, First Time Competitors Christchurch, Castlebar. In assoc. Castlebar Town Council

Competition adm: €5 (covers all above competition venues).

The Prizes

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Again this year we have engaged Sculptor Ronan Halpin, Achill Island, County Mayo, to create the specially commissioned handmade awards. On the award for the premier competition (pictured right), singing is symbolised by two of the most common birds in Mayo - the Blackbird and the Song Thrush - who live side by side but also compete for habitat - referring to the competitive part of the festival. The tree is symbolic of the yew tree. The Irish for Mayo is ‘Mhaigh Eo’, which means ‘plain of the Yews’. The triangular shape on both awards is similar to a metronome, and the celtic symbols are deviations of music notation.

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Competition A PREMIER COMPETITION In assoc. Mayo County Council

Competition B FOUR PART CHOIRS In assoc. Ashford Castle

Winner: Trophy and €700. Runner-up: €300.

Winner: Trophy and €300. Runner-up: €150. Venue, Day and Time: GMIT, Sat, 9am.

Venue, Day & Time: Royal Theatre, Sat, 8.30pm.

Winner Comp B _______________________ Winner Comp C _______________________ Winner Comp D _______________________

1. ENCHIRIADIS CHAMBER CHOIR Dublin. Musical Director: Michael Dawson. i) Vigilate - William Byrd. ii) There is Another Sky – Ivo Antognini.

Winner Comp E _______________________ Winner Comp F _______________________ Winner Comp G _______________________ Winner Comp H _______________________

2. LAETARE VOCAL ENSEMBLE - Dublin. Musical Director: Roisín Blunnie. i) Hark All Ye Lovely Saints Thomas Weelkes. ii) Libera Me – Lajos Bardos.

Winner Comp i _______________________ Winner Comp J _______________________ Winner Comp K ______________________

3. VOZ NUA – Portugal Musical Director: Aoife Hiney. i) Corten Espadas Afiladas Cancionero De Medinaceli. ii) Kalinda - Sydney Guillaume. 4. CAPPELLA - Dublin Musical Director: Vincent Whelan. i) Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye – Alice Parker. ii) Festival Sanctus – John Leavitt.

Golfing at Ballina. Photo: © Courtesy Fáilte Ireland

Competition C CHOIRS FROM IRELAND In assoc. Mayo County Council Winner: Trophy and €300. Runner-up: €150. Venue, Day and Time: GMIT, Sat, 10.30am.

1. CAPPELLA - Dublin Musical Director: Vincent Whelan. i) Elijah Rock - Jester Hairston. ii) The Yearning - Craig Courtney 2. CILL AODÁIN CHORAL SOCIETY – Mayo Musical Director: Finola Higgins Cosgrove. i) Anthem – Andersson/Rice/Ulvaeus ii June is Bustin’ Out All Over – Richard Rodgers and Hammerstein II 3. ENCHIRIADIS CHAMBER CHOIR – Dublin. Musical Director: Michael Dawson i) Fix You – Coldplay. ii) Ave Maria – Rihards Dubra 4. MARINE INSTITUTE SINGERS – Galway. Musical Director: Carmel Dooley i) Moon River – Mercer/Macini. ii) Cantar – Jay Althouse. 5. ST. MARY’S COLLEGE SINGERS – Dublin. Musical Director: Maria Stanley. i) Scarborough Fair – Paul Simon. ii) The Argument – Francis J. Nesta.

Margaret Bourke Sheridan Competition D FEMALE VOICES In assoc. Mayo County Council Winner: Trophy and €300. Runner-up: €150. Venue, Day & Time: GMIT, Sat, 1.30am.

1. BALLINA CHAMBER CHOIR - Mayo. Musical Director: Niamh O’Kelly. i) Cantate Domino – Michelle Roueché. ii) Salve Regina – Javier Busto. 2. CAPPELLA LADIES CHOIR - Dublin. Musical Director: Vincent Whelan. i) An Fhuiseóg San Spéir – Proinsias Ó’Ceallaigh. ii) Alleluia, Alleluia – Amy F. Bernon. 3. THE PARK SINGERS - Dublin. Musical Director: Orla Gillan. i) Mary’s Song - Knut Nystedt. ii) Pseudo-Yoik Lite - Jaakko Mäntyjärvi. 4. VOCALESSENCE - Mayo Musical Director: Kathy Fahey. i) Adiemus – Karl Jenkins. ii) The Seal Lullaby – Eric Whitacre. 5. ENGLISH CONCERT SINGERS FEMALE ENSEMBLE – U.K. Musical Director: Dr. Roy Wales. i) Gloria – Benjamin Britten. ii) Lift Thine Eyes – Mendelssohn

John (Jack) Feeney Competition E MALE VOICES In assoc. Ashford Castle Winner: Trophy and €300. Runner-up: €150. Venue, Day & Time: GMIT, Sat, 12.12pm.

1. ENGLISH CONCERT SINGERS MALE ENSEMBLE – U.K. Musical Director: Dr. Roy Wales. i) Chorus of The Priests (O Isis and Osiris) – WA Mozart ii) Every Time I Feel The Spirit – arr. by Alan Simmons 2. CELTIC CHORISTERS – Dublin Musical Director: Ethel Glancy. i) Over the Rainbow – Harold Arlen ii) The Awakening – Joseph Martin 3. DUBLIN MALE VOICE – Dublin Musical Director: Áine Mulvey i) Shenandoah – arr. by Jeff Funk ii) There Is Nothin’ Like A Dame – Rodgers 4. MAYO MALE VOICE CHOIR - Mayo Musical Director: Deirdre Lee i) Carrickfergus – arr. by Gwyn Arch ii) What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor? – arr. by D. Eddleman

Competition F SACRED MUSIC In assoc. Mayo County Council Winner: Trophy and €300. Runner-up: €150. Venue, Day & Time: Church of the Holy Rosary, Sat, 3pm.

1. DUBLIN MALE VOICE CHOIR – Dublin. Musical Director: Áine Mulvey. i) All In The April Evening Hugh S. Roberton. ii) How Can I Keep From Singing Robert Lowry. 2. ENCHIRIADIS CHAMBER CHOIR – Dublin. Musical Director: Michael Dawson. i) Richte Mich Gott – Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy ii) Stetit Angelus – Rihards Dubra. 3. MARINE INSTITUTE SINGERS - Galway. Musical Director: Carmel Dooley. i) Ubi Caritas – Ola Gjeilo ii) Kiitkem Sudamest Mariat – Urmas Sisask 4. ENGLISH CONCERT SINGERS - U.K. Musical Director: Dr. Roy Wales i) Deo Gracias – Benjamin Britten. ii) Cantique De Jean Racine – Gabriel Faurè. 5. GRACENOTES - Mayo. Musical Director: Laura Brogan. i) Illumina Le Tenebre – Joan Szyumko ii) Benedictus Es - Ēriks Ešenwalds 6. LAETARE VOCAL ENSEMBLE - Dublin Musical Director: Dr. Róisin Blunnie. i) Ave Verum Corpus - William Byrd. ii) De Profundis Clamavi - Vic Nees.

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GAELIC/ CELTIC LANGUAGE Sacred Music Continued: 7. PARK SINGERS CHAMBER CHOIR – Dublin. Musical Director: Orla Gillan. i) Lux Aeterna – Michele Roueche ii)Ave Regina Coelorum – Ko Matsushita 8. VOCALESSENCE – Mayo. Musical Director: Kathy Fahey. i) God Be In My Head – John Rutter. ii) And the Glory of the Lord – G.F. Handel. 9. VOZ NUA – Portugal Musical Director: Aoife Hiney. i) Ave Maria – Franz Biebl. ii) Aleluia – Ernst Mahle.

Competition G GOSPEL CHOIRS In assoc. Mayo County Council Winner: Trophy and €300. Runner-up: €150. Venue, Day & Time: Christchurch, Sat, 9am.

1. CASTLEBAR GOSPEL CHOIR – Mayo. Musical Director: Kathy Fahey i) Calling Me Home – Tom Kendzia ii) Giants – Donald Lawrence 2. THE PARK SINGERS - Dublin. Musical Director: Orla Gillan. i) Precious Lord Take My Hand – George N. Allen/J. Merman ii) My Soul’s Been Anchored in the Lord – arr. by Moses Hogan

Amhrán is Fearr i nGaeilge nó i dTeanga Ceilteach

In assoc. Gnó Mhaigh Eo. Winner: Trophy and €300. Runner-up: €150. Venue, Day & Time: GMIT, Sat, 3pm.

1. VOZ NUA – Portugal Musical Director: Aoife Hiney. i) Spalpann – Michael Holohan. ii) Buachaill Ón Éirne – arr. by Andrew Synnott 2. CELTIC CHORISTERS – Dublin. Musical Director: Ethel Glancy. i) Siúl A Ghrá – arr. by Ethel Glancy ii) Calon Lân – Ethel Glancy 3. OBAN GAELIC CHOIR – Scotland. Musical Director: SILEAS SINCLAIR i) A Dhómhnaill Nan Dómhnall - arr. by Sileas Sinclair ii) Calum Táillear Taigh A’ Bhealaich arr. by Sileas Sinclair. 4. BALLINA CHAMBER CHOIR - Mayo. Musical Director – Niamh O’Kelly. i) Hocstí Hódaí - arr. by Niamh O’Kelly. ii) Árd Tigh Cuain - arr. by N. Uí Riain. 5. ST. MARY’S COLLEGE SINGERS - Dublin Musical Director: Maria Stanley. i) An Oíche – Michael Mc Glynn. ii) Tá Na Báid – arr. by Deirdre Moynihan.

Competition I BARBERSHOP CHORUS

Competition J BARBERSHOP QUARTETS

In assoc. Castlebar

Municipal District

Winner: Trophy and €300. Runner-up: €150. Venue, Day & Time: GMIT, Sat, 4.30pm

Winner: Trophy and €200. Runner-up: €100. Venue, Day & Time: GMIT, Sat, 3pm

1. ATHLONE A CAPPELLA – Westmeath. Musical Director: David Farmer. i) If I Had My Way – Lyrics: Lou Klein/David Harrington. Music: James Kendis. ii) Good Day/Wonderful Day Medley Words and Music: Peggy Lee and Dave Barbour and Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley

1. BLADE FOUR - Mayo Musical Director: Joseph Garvey. i) As Time Goes By – arr. by Walter Latzko ii) Sing, Sing, Sing - Louis Prima

2. NO HALF MEASURES – Sligo Musical Director – Máire Hunt. i) If I Give My Heart To You – arr. by Jim Clancy. ii) Ain’t He Sweet – arr. by Lorraine Rochefort. 3. TONE COLD SOBER – Sligo Musical Director: Micheal MacGiolla Rí. i) For All We Know – arr. by Lou Perry. ii) Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue – arr. by Joe Liles.

2. NOTE-ORIOUS 4 - Sligo Musical Director: Berna Kavanagh. i) Once Upon A Time Lee Adams/Charles Strouse. ii) I Got Rhythm Medley – arr. by Nancy Bergman. 3. THE SANDBARS - Sligo. Music Director: Martin Donoghue. i) Georgia On My Mind – Stuart Gorrell/H. Carmichael ii) Yes Sir, That’s My Baby – Gus Kahn/W. Donaldson

Competition K FIRST TIME COMPETITORS In assoc. Castlebar

Municipal District

Winner: Trophy and €200. Runner-up: €100. Venue, Day & Time: Christchurch, Sat, 10am.

1. SEASHARPS - Dublin Musical Director: Caroline Cutliffe i) Londonderry Air – arr. by Bob Chilcott ii) Siyahamba – arr. by C. Cutliffe 2. WESTERN VOICES Musical Director: Paddy Daly i) You’ll Never Walk Alone with Climb Ev’ry Mountain - Oscar Hammerstein II ii) Battle Hymn of the Republic Julia Ward Howe 3. EV’RY VOICE Musical Director: Kathy Fahey i) I Dreamed a Dream – C M Schönberg ii) Let the River Run – Carly Simon 25

The Adjudicators Moltóirí Prof. Theodora Pavlovitch, Bulgaria Theodora Pavlovitch is a Professor in Choral Conducting at the Bulgarian National Academy of Music and at the Sofia University. She is the Conductor of Vassil Arnaoudov Sofia Chamber Choir (winner of 22 first and special awards in International competitions) and is a permanent conductor of Classic FM Radio Choir, and was a Conductor of the World Youth Choir on its winter session 2007/2008. Theodora has gained many awards and prizes, including ‘Golden Lyre’ - the highest national prize for music in Bulgaria, as well as prizes by

the Ministry of Culture, Classic FM Radio, Bulgarian Choirs Union and the Association of European Cultural and Scientific Societies. A regular member of Jury panels at a number of international choral competitions and a lecturer at different music events in Europe, USA, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Israel, she is also Vice President International Federation for Choral Music. In 2005 Pavlovitch led a Masterclass in conducting at the 7th World Symposium on Choral Music in Kyoto, Japan.

Vytautas Miškinis, Lithuania Born in 1954, Vytautas is a Lithuanian music composer and professor, who has been Choir Director of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre conservatory since 1985. He has also served as Artistic Director of the Ąžuoliukas youth choir. For several years he conducted the Kaunas State Choir and Vocal Ensemble Museum Musicum. With the choirs, he has won prestigious prizes at numerous national and international competitions. Currently Mr. Miškinis is the Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the All-Lithuanian Choir Festival. He has led choral performances and given lectures in Austria, Byelorussia, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark,

Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Ukraine and USA. Mr. Miškinis worked as a member of Jury at International Choir and Choral Composition Competitions worldwide. To date he has composed and recorded over 700 pieces, both religious and secular. In the United States he has composed works for The University of Louisville Collegiate Chorale and the Golden Gate Men's Chorus (San Francisco, CA). These compositions for choirs are published in Lithuania and France, Germany, Slovenia, Italy, Spain, Japan and USA.

Claire Barnett-Jones, UK Former synchronised swimming champion, Claire, felt that she was more suited to the stage, and gave up the early morning training sessions and nose clips, in favour of later evenings and ball gowns. Claire started music as an instrumentalist and she learnt a variety of instruments, with the more unusual being the banjo and sousaphone. Her singing life started in a Women’s Barbershop Chorus where she went on to be the National Youth Chorus Conductor, and now she judges barbershop contests across the world in her ‘spare’ time, and is a recognised adjudicator for the Ladies Association of British Barbershop Singers. A repetitive strain injury resulted in a break from instrumental playing, and Claire pursued classical singing as an undergraduate at 26

Birmingham Conservatoire. Since then she has performed as a Soloist at the BBC Proms, and worked with opera companies such as Birmingham Opera, and Scottish Opera. Her highlight roles include; Zita in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi at Birminghmam Conservatoire, and creating the role of Alto 1 in Stockhausen’s Mittwoch aud Licht with Graham Vick and Birmingham Opera Company for the Cultural Olympiad. She is currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music as a Masters student with Sarah Walker, and with be continuing onto the Royal Academy Opera in September. She is a Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata Soloist, a member of the RAM Song Circle and has participated in masterclasses with Susan Bullock and the late John Shirley-Quirk.

Orla Flanagan, Ireland Dr Orla Flanagan is Assistant Professor of Music at Trinity College, Dublin. She studied conducting with Prof. Péter Erdei in Hungary and has participated in courses and masterclasses throughout Europe. In 2012 Orla was awarded a Doctorate of Music in Performance from the Royal Irish Academy of Music, the first doctorate in choral conducting to be awarded in Ireland. As conductor of mixed-voice choir the Mornington Singers, Orla has won numerous awards nationally and internationally; in 2011 she gained the McCurtain & McSwiney Award to a conductor at the Fleischmann International Trophy

Competition at Cork International Choral Festival and in April 2009 she was awarded a special prize for interpretation at the 10th International Choral Competition, Maribor, Slovenia. She frequently gives choral workshops and adjudicates at choral festivals throughout Ireland. Dr Flanagan also conducts the UCD Philharmonic Choir. She has appeared with various professional choral ensembles: with Milltown Chamber Choir, with EnsemBéal at the Béal Festival and as a frequent guest conductor with the National Chamber Choir of Ireland, with whom she performed at the White House for Barack Obama.

Dr Desmond Earley, Ireland Desmond Earley is Lecturer in Choral Conducting at University College Dublin, Artistic Director of UCD Choral Scholars and Director of the UCD Ad Astra Music Programme. He holds a DMus Performance degree in early music (harpsichord) from the Royal Irish Academy of Music, having studied previously at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Wien, at University College Dublin and the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama.

He is a member of the [American] National Collegiate Choral Organisation and the Society of Musicology in Ireland. In addition to writing arrangements regularly for Tenebrae Choir (UK), Desmond is a published arranger and composer of choral works with Hal Leonard (USA), Alliance (USA), Novello (UK) and Seolta Music (Irl), and regularly works as a choral conductor/clinician in the areas of early music and Irish choral music.

Aidan Green, Ireland Aidan Greene was Musical Director of Gardiner Street Gospel Choir from 2008-2013, having played piano as part of the choir’s band for eight years prior to that. As well as directing and performing, Aidan is also an experienced arranger of Gospel Music and has coproduced the two albums released by Gardiner Street Gospel Choir. Through this, he is experienced in all genres of Gospel Music. He has presented Gospel Music workshops on Southern Gospel Music and Gospel Music in liturgy at the annual Gospel Rising Music

Festival and to choirs throughout Ireland. He has also sung and played with several other Gospel Music Groups including the Valley Gospel Singers and The Gospel Project. Aidan studied Music Education at Trinity College, Dublin and the D.I.T. Conservatory of Music and Drama.

Venues Ionaid

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1 Lough Lannagh Village / Macalla Hall 2. Lakeside Carpark (Dawn Chorus) 3. Mayo Memorial Peace Park Harlequin Hotel 4. GMIT (free parking at GMIT complex on Sat.) 5. Hospital (Mayo General) 6. Royal Theatre, TF Royal Hotel & Festival Office 7. Tesco Foyer 8. Christchurch. 9. Plaza opposite Prendergasts Clothing

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14 10. Church of the Holy Rosary, Chapel St 11. St Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National School (Warm up rooms for Sacred Music Comp coach and car parking available on grounds) 12. Coxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bars & Restaurant, Tucker St 13. SuperValu Foyer Welcome Inn Hotel 14. Breaffy House Hotel. Take the N60 road, located approx 4km from Castlebar.

Festival at a glance Thurs & Fri Concerts TIME

EVENT, NAME AND DETAILS

Festival Office: Roy DUR

VENUE

8pm, Presentation by Anne Chambers on 75 Castlebar Library Thurs The Life & Times of Margaret Burke Sheridan mins. 21st May. The famous Mayo-born Soprano. Drinks reception.

ADM

Free

8pm, ‘Ballintubber Sings’ Community Concert. Fri, Choirs: Mayo Male Voice Choir, Ballintubber 22nd May. Abbey Choir and Enchiriadis, Dublin

90 Ballintubber Abbey €12 mins

8.30pm, ‘Ballina Sings’ Community Choral Concert. Fri, Choirs: English Concert Singers, UK 22nd May Ballina Chamber Choir

90 Ballina Arts Centre €12 mins

8.30pm, ‘Newport Sings’ Community Choral Concert. Fri, Choirs: Cór Mhaigh Eo, 22nd May CODA

90 St Patrick’s Church €12 mins Newport

8.30pm, ‘Swinford Sings’ Community Choral Concert. Fri, Choirs: Oban Gaelic Choir, Gracenotes, 22nd May Swinford Church, Mayo School of Music

90 Church of Our Lady €12 mins Help of Christians

Sunday Concerts TIME

EVENT, NAME AND DETAILS

DUR

6pm, ‘Crossmolina Sings’ Choral Concert. Sun, Choirs: Voz Nua, Portugal 24th May. Iain King, Violin 8pm, Sun, 24th May

‘Westport Sings’ Choral Concert. Choirs: Nebraska Wesleyan Choir and Symphonic Band. Westport Children’s Choir.

VENUE

ADM

90 St Tiernan’s mins Church, Crossmolina

Free

90 Holy Trinity Church mins Westport.

€12

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Competitions - open to the public TIME

COMPETITION NAME & VENUE

Sat 8.30pm 23rd May

Competition A, Premier

Sat 9am 23rd May

Competition B, Four Part Choirs

Sat 10.30am 23rd May

Competition C, Choirs from Ireland

Royal Theatre, Castlebar. In assoc. Mayo County Council

GMIT, Castlebar. In assoc. Ashford Castle GMIT, Castlebar. In assoc. Mayo County Council

Downtown Records, C’bar

Sat 1.30pm 23rd May

Comp D, Female Voices, Margaret B Sheridan

Ballina Arts Centre

Sat 12.10pm 23rd May

John Feeney - Competition E, Male Voices

On the Door,

Chambers newsagents, Downtown Records, C’bar On the Door, Eurospar,

Mellett’s & Spains. Downtown Records, C’bar

GMIT, Castlebar. In assoc. Mayo County Council

GMIT, Castlebar. In assoc. Ashford Castle

Sat 3pm 23rd May

Competition F, Sacred Music

Sat 9am, 23rd May

Competition G, Gospel Choirs

Sat 3pm 23rd May

Competition H, Gaelic / Celtic Language

Sat 4.30pm 23rd May

Competition i, Barbershop Chorus

Sat 3pm 23rd May

Competition J, Barbershop Chorus

Sat 10am 23rd May

D Murphy - Comp K, First Time Competitors

Holy Rosary, Castlebar. In assoc. Mayo County Council Christchurch, Castlebar. In assoc. Mayo County Council

Amhrán i nGaeilge nó i dTeanga Ceilteach. GMIT, Castlebar. In assoc. Gnó Mhaigh Eo GMIT, Castlebar. In assoc. Castlebar Municipal District

GMIT, Castlebar. In assoc. Castlebar Municipal District

Christchurch, Castlebar. In assoc. Castlebar Municipal District

Competition adm: €5 (covers all above competition venues). TICKETS Adm Free

On the Door, Downtown Records, Westport / Castlebar.

Sat from 11am

Songway Choral Trail Short performances

Sat 8.30pm, 23rd May.

Gala Choral Concert Royal Theatre, Castlebar Featuring prizewinning choirs and post-concert festival club entertainment. Tickets €12, Royal Theatre, Tel. 094 9023111 and on door.

Sun 24th 8am

Dawn Chorus Castlebar (8am), Lough Lannagh lakeside carpark.

Indoor and outdoor (outdoor weather permitting)

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Westport Sings ~ Programme WESTPORT CHILDRENS’ CHOIR Linden Lea

Rhythm of Life

Ceann Dubh Dilis

Murasame

By Ralph Vaughan Williams arr. Alec Rowley

By Dorothy Fields and Cy Coleman arr. Richard Barnes

by Michael McGlynn

(The Mists of Evening) by Victor C. Johnson

NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY CHOIR Tamara Riley Wyman, Piano ~ William Wyman, Director To be selected from: O Magnum Mysterium Ivo Antognini (b. 1963)

Clear Our Heart, O God Tom Trenney (b. 1977)

Famine Song arr. Matthew Culloton (b. 1976)

Ave Maria Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot arr. Anders Ohrwall (b. 1932)

The Children of Lir Jean Henderson (b. 1942)

Angelus Albert Alcaraz (b. 1978)

Peter, Go Ring Dem Bells Andre’ Thomas (b. 1952)

Mouth Music Dolores Keane (b.1953 John Faulkner (b.1979)

NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY SYMPHONIC BAND Sam Zitek, Director To be selected from: The Washington Post March John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) Edited by Frederick Fennell Ave Maria Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Arranged by Frank Ticheli

American Riversongs Down The River * Shenandoah * The Glendy Burk Pierre LaPlante (b.1934) The Crosley March Henry Fillmore (1881-1956) Edited by Robert E. Foster

The Water Is Wide Setting by Rick Kirby (b. 1945)

Irish Tune From County Derry Percy Grainger (1882-1961) Edited by R. Mark Rogers \

Folk Dances Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Edited by H. Robert Reynolds The Stars and Stripes Forever John Philip Sousa Edited by John R. Bourgeois

CHOIR & BAND Nebraskaland Collage Jim Fras (1925-2002) Arranged by Boyd Bacon

The Star-Spangled Banner Francis Scott Key (1779-1843) John Stafford Smith (1750-1836) Arranged by Jack Stamp

Amhrán na bhFiann Peadar Kearney (1883-1942) Patrick “Paddy” Heeney (1881-1911) Arranged by Col. J.R. McGee 37

Useful Services Coach and Taxi Hire Name

Contact Details

Corduff Travel - Coach Hire

097 88949 / 88064

Conor Dever Taxi & Bus Service

098 27220 / 087 2413722

Kavanagh Coach Travel

094 93 600111 / 087 2344828

Lynx Taxis (Castlebar)

(094) 9034700

McGrath Coaches

097 87842 / 087 2313039

Michael Moran Coach Hire

087 2330097

Philip Atkins Coaches

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Quigley Coaches

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Restaurants In addition to restaurants at Hotels, please find the following for tasty options Venue Name

Location

Tel

Al Muretto Italian Restaurant

Tucker St, Castlebar

094 9025954

Bay Leaf Restaurant at Horkan’s Garden Centre Turlough, Castlebar

094 9289743

Bosh Bar and Restaurant

Linenhall St, Castlebar

094 925 0534

Cafe Rua & Rua

Newantrim & Spencer St

094 9286072

Cox’s Bars and Restaurant

Tucker St, Castlebar

094 9026611

Dhaka Indian Restaurant

Tucker St, Castlebar

094 9034374

Feericks Restaurant and Hotel

Rathowen, Co. Westmeath

043 6676025

Season’s Restaurant & Mulroy’s Bar

Main St, Castlebar

094 9028954

The Pantry

Shambles St, Castlebar

094 9026688

Tolsters, Bar and Restaurant

Spencer St, Castlebar

094 9025064

Venue Name

Location

Tel

Michael Byrnes Bar

Main St, Castlebar

094 9021561

Moran’s Pub

Rush St, Castlebar

094 9024931

Sloyan’s Bar

Linenhall St, Castlebar

094 9021261

Rocky’s

Linenhall St, Castlebar

094 9021231

Bars

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Athlone A Cappella Female Voice ~ Co. Westmeath, Ireland Since forming in 2012 the Chorus has grown to a membership of 60 ladies. This group’s membership spans all the adjoining counties of Longford, Roscommon, Offaly, Galway, and as far as Kilkenny! Their Musical Director, David Farmer, has been singing and coaching 4-part a cappella barbershop harmony for many years. They have taken the competition scene by storm in the past two years winning 1st Prize in both the Sligo and Mayo Choral Festivals and in 2014 they became the all Ireland Ladies National Barbershop Harmony Champions. The group has taken part in many other events at local and national levels.

Ballina Chamber Choir Female Voice ~ Ballina, Co. Mayo This 20-strong choir, formed in 2011, performs a wide variety of music including a cappella part songs (sacred and secular), Jazz and Classics. The choir won 2nd place in their first competition at this festival in 2012 and again in 2013 and 2014. This year the choir won 1st in their category at the Kiltimagh Choral Festival, and ‘Choir of the Festival’. The choir hosts two concerts each year in the Ballina Arts Centre, and performed a 2nd winter concert in Castlebar’s Christ Church in 2014. The choir’s Director, Niamh O'Kelly, studied singing, composition and piano at the Royal College of Music (both Dublin & London), The Leopold Mozart Konservatorium, Germany and The University of Limerick and is currently Head of Music in Castlebar College of Further Education.

River Moy and Ballina Arts Centre

Ballintubber Abbey Choir Mixed Voice ~ Mayo Ballintubber Abbey Choir is in existence for the past hundred years and was re-envigorated some three years ago, when it was very fortunate to acquire the services of its present musical director Sr Frances McMyler. Since then the choir has featured in the annual concert during the very successful Mayo International Choral Festival, and more recently supported Mass from Ballintubber Abbey on St. Patrick's Day 2015, which was broadcast live by TG4 and was televised internationally. The choir of course performs at local Masses and liturgical events in the Parish on a regular basis. The choir looks forward to the concert in Ballintubber Abbey.

Blade 4 Barbershop Quartet ~ Castlebar Blade 4 are a recently formed Castlebar based acappella group made up of 4 members of the Mayo Male Voice Choir. The quartet members consist of brothers James and Joseph Garvey singing tenor and lead, with Colin Kneafsey singing bass and David Loring singing baritone. They take on some challenging music from the Barbershop tradition, as well as music from other genres that involve harmony singing. The group recently enjoyed a dĂŠbut performance at the Mayo Male Voice Choir annual concert, and, with thanks to the encouraging response they received, Blade 4 hope to continue-on dazzling audiences everywhere!

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Capella Mixed Voice Choir, Dublin Capella’s present formation dates from 1998 when Vincent Whelan became Musical Director and from the outset it was decided to combine competitive singing with concert performances. Capella has made it’s mark on the competition circuit in Ireland and Britain. On the concert platform the choir has performed for the President of Ireland, and with international artists at the National Concert Hall, and regularly sings at charity concerts, and has participated in concerts in Britain, France, Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. Cappella likes to sing a mixed repertoire ranging from well known light pieces to Irish traditional pieces, to classical and Sacred

Capella Ladies Choir Ladies Choir, Dublin Cappella Ladies are an integral part of Cappella Mixed Voice Choir but in recent years it was decided that they would perform independently both in competition and on the concert platform. In the short time of their existence, they have already achieved several successes. In their last three competitions they have won two 1st prizes and one 2nd award. The choir are really looking forward to their visit to Mayo and to taking part in the Mayo International Choral Festival. The choir is directed by Mr. Vincent Whelan.

Castlebar Gospel Choir Mixed Voice, Gospel ~ Co. Mayo, Ireland Formed in 1999, this Castlebar-based 38-strong choir can be heard at mass services on the last Saturday of each month, and each year they hold a summer and a Christmas concert, when they are accompanied by 4-piece band, ‘The Sophisticats’. The choir has performed in the USA, Germany and venues closer to home such as the National Concert Hall, the Royal Theatre and Linenhall Arts Centre and Ard Inis Gluaire. Directed since 2008 by Kathy Fahey who studied at NUIM, and also directs a number of other choirs, as well as director of the 100strong ‘Handel The Challenge Choir’.

Celtic Choristers Male Voice Choir Male Voice ~ Dublin, Ireland Formed in 1998, the choir is based in St. Mary’s College, Rathmines and has developed a diverse style and repertoire ranging from modern popular, spiritual and classical compositions, in addition to the traditional Irish and Welsh Hymn formats. The choir has performed at Áras an Uachtaráin, National Concert Hall, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham and regularly supports social, charitable and religious events, and has competed successfully at competitions in New Ross, Navan, Llandudno, Bangor, Sligo, Arklow and Coleraine International Choral Festivals. Love of singing, camaraderie and fun are the common themes enjoyed by the choir. Musical Director is Ethel Glancy.

Cill Aodáin Choral Society Mixed Voice ~ Co. Mayo, Ireland Since its formation in 1998, the Cill Aodáin Choral Society has grown in members and experience. With over 50 members, the society meets weekly to share their passion for music. They have won awards at festivals in Sligo, Kiltimagh, Castlebar and at the A.I.M.S. Choral Festival, New Ross. In recent years, the choir has performed with many well-known Irish artists in concert and on national television. In 2013, the choir performed in the European Parliament, Brussels, as part of the celebration of Ireland’s presidency of the E.U. Under the musical direction of Finola Higgins-Cosgrove the choir continues to go from strength to strength.

Cór Mhaigh Eo Mixed Voice ~ Co. Mayo, Ireland Cór Mhaigh Eo (Mayo Choir), established in 1994, has currently 43 members from around the county. Under the direction of Dr Brian Lennon, the choir sings a wide repertoire of sacred and secular choral music ranging from the 16th century compositions of Byrd, de Victoria and Monteverdi right through to contemporary composers such as Whitacre, Lauridsen, Lucaszewski and Dubra. Beside a busy local schedule of performances at masses and concerts, Cór Mhaigh Eo participates at International Choral Festivals with great success and also enjoys travelling and performing abroad, having visited Scotland, Latvia, Italy, Spain and Monaco, with plans for a trip to Portugal. 43

Dublin Male Voice Choir Male Voice ~ Ireland Founded in 2006 by the late Peter McBrien the internationally acclaimed Irish baritone, the choir members come from all parts of the city and county. The choir has performed extensively in such places as Aras an Uachtarain, Dublin’s Mansion House, St Patrick’s Cathedral among other venues in Dublin and other parts of Ireland as well as participating successfully in several choral festivals. Aine Mulvey was appointed as musical director in 2012. Since then, the choir has grown in membership to over 30 and it’s repertoire currently exceeds sixty songs and choruses, both sacred and secular. Accompanist: Charles Marshall.

Enchiriadis Chamber Choir Chamber Choir ~ Dublin Formed in 1987 by Dr. Marion Hayden, the name ‘Enchiriadis’ means ‘of many parts’ in Greek. The choir’s repertoire is testament to same, ranging from ancient chant all the way to Stevie Wonder! The choir has won awards at international festivals in Ireland (including Mayo) and abroad, and was chosen to perform as part of the Premier concert version of Eric Whitacre’s ‘Paradise Lost, Shadows and Wings’ in Carnegie Hall in 2010. The choir is conducted by the immensely talented Michael Dawson, a graduate of University of Limerick and National University of Ireland. No strangers to Mayo, this is the fourth year that Enchiriadis will participate.

Westport House

English Concert Singers Mixed Choir ~ England Formed in 1989 by Dr. Roy Wales on his return from working and living in Australia, the choir draws it’s membership from amateur singers who live in many parts of England and Wales. The choir has a varied repertoire and is the basis of the English Concert Chorus, which has performed many times with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the Royal Albert Hall. The choir has toured Europe, Israel, South Africa, Australia, Russia, China, the Caribbean and South America. In 2011 the choir participated in the world première of Karl Jenkins’ The Bards of Wales, in the new Budapest Concert Hall in Hungary.

English Concert Singers Female Ensemble Feale Voice Choir ~ England Formed in 1989 by Roy Wales, this ensemble has performed in many of the concerts given by the English Concert Singers. A wide range of repertoire has been performed including works by Paul Patterson and a number of other contemporary English composers. In the past the Ensemble has participated in various Welsh Eisteddfodau and also travelled extensively with the English Concert Singers on its tours to Europe, Israel, South Africa, China and South America. Its membership is drawn from amateur singers across England and it rehearses at the weekends in venues in the Midlands and in London. Musical director is Dr. Roy Wales.

English Concert Singers Male Ensemble Male Voice Choir ~ England This choir has featured in many ECS concerts since the choir’s formation in 1989, and has given first performances of a number of new works for male voices including music by Stuart Johnson, Elizabeth Sidebotham and Russell Pascoe. In 2003 the choir featured in the Cornwall International Male Voice Choral Festival. Its amateur membership is drawn from different parts of England and its rehearsals are held at weekends in various venues in London and the Midlands. The choir is delighted to be taking part in the Mayo International Choral Festival this May. Musical director is Dr. Roy Wales.

Ev’ry Voice Mixed Choir ~ Ballina Formed in September 2014, Ev’ry Voice is a new community choir, based in Ballina, County Mayo. It comprises of 35 members, male and female with some members who have never set foot on a stage before. The choir’s first concert was held in the Twin Trees Hotel, Ballina, December 2014, and the choir was very well received. This will be their first competition and the choir is really looking forward to the experience. The choir is delighted to be taking part in the Mayo International Choral Festival. The choir’s musical director is Kathy Fahey.

Gracenotes Female Voice ~ Mayo Established in 1999, Gracenotes is based in Ballyhaunis with over 30 singers drawn from the locality and surrounding counties of Galway, Roscommon and Sligo. This choir performs a varied repertoire, mostly a cappella, ranging from early music to contemporary, and includes a selection of spirituals and folk music to add a lighter touch! The choir has won many awards at festivals in Cork, Limerick, Navan and Sligo and Mayo, and frequently travels abroad and has performed in Italy, Hungary, Czech Republic, Spain and Poland. The choir plans to visit France in July. The choir is conducted by Laura Brogan, one of the founding members.

Laetare Vocal Ensemble Mixed Voice ~ Dublin Laetare Vocal Ensemble is a Dublin-based chamber choir founded in 2014 by Róisín Blunnie. In 2014, the choir gave its début performances in a war/centenary-themed concert series - There will be Peace: songs of conflict, love and loss, presented jointly with Cork choir Voci Nuove, to sell-out audiences in the Unitarian Church in Dublin and The Vision Centre in Cork City, and also featured on RTE Radio The History Show. Dr Róisín Blunnie studied conducting at the Kodály Institute in Hungary. She is Head of Music at Mater Dei Institute, Dublin City University.

The Marine Institute Singers Mixed Voice ~ Galway Established in 2013, the choir comprises of scientists, analysts and administrators working in the Marine Institute responsible for our fisheries and protecting our seas. The choir rehearses weekly and sings a broad range of genres. The choir won the new competitor category at the prestigious Mayo International Choral Festival in 2014 and has participated in numerous charity and seasonal events, including a Christmas Concert with the renowned Cois Claddaigh in St Nicholas’s Church, Galway. The Choir is led and conducted by Carmel Dooley. The choir are looking forward to their return visit.

Mayo Male Voice Choir Male Voice ~ Mayo Established in 2000, this popular choir has grown from strength to strength with over 50 members from all parts of Mayo. The choir has been under the direction of Deirdre Lee since it's inception and has travelled and performed all over Ireland, the UK, Germany and Prague. The choir has also hosted many Gala concerts. In addition to a busy performance schedule, the choir takes part in competitions and has won prizes at Sligo and Mayo International Choral Festivals and was first in the Male Voice category in this year’s Kiltimagh Choral Festival. The choir has recorded a CD entitled 'Popular Favourites'. Accompanist is Rebecca Cresham.

Mayo School of Music Youth Choir Female Youth Choir ~ Co. Mayo, Ireland Formed in 2006 as a result of the opening of the Mayo School of Music, Kiltimagh, the members of this 40-strong choir, ranging in ages from 10 to 19 years, come from all over Mayo. The choir rehearses weekly under the direction of Finola Higgins Cosgrove, accompanied by Ausra Kvietkute. It has won several prizes around the country, and has sung with Dana, Michael English and Liam Lawton. It has also performed at the Volvo Ocean Race, Galway, in Knock Basilica and recently at a concert in Castlebar in aid of Crumlin Children’s Hospital. The choir’s CD ‘Hands of Hope’ has raised over €2000 for Western Alzheimers. 47

Men’s Shed Choir, Castlebar Male Voice ~ Mayo The Castlebar Men's Shed Choir was founded in January 2014. It is based presently in Le Ceile family center while the organisations new premises are being refurbished. The objectives of the International Organisation of Men's Sheds are clearly appreciated by it's musical director, Sister Mary Johnson. The work of Men’s Sheds creates places of belonging, participatory democracy, mutual respect, companionship and community for all Shedders. The choir look forward to participating again this year in the Festival and will cooperate in the running of the event. Conscious of the town's unique musical heritage, the choir’s goal is to play it's part.

Holy Trinity Church, Westport

Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir Mixed University Choir ~ Nabraska, USA The Emmy nominated Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir is recognized throughout the United States and internationally for performing excellence and repertoire rich in global diversity. Since 1977 the choir has undertaken nine foreign concert tours and annual domestic tours. The choir has appeared on eight American Choral Directors Association regional and national convention programs, OAKE and AGO convention programs and numerous MENC convention programs. The choir has performed three times at Carnegie Hall and twice at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York. Directed and conducted by the distinguished Dr. William A. Wyman.

Nebraska Wesleyan University Symphonic Band Formed in 1903, it has grown into a select group of the finest instrumentalists at the University, performing outstanding and representative works in all styles from classical to avant-garde. The band has a tradition of premiering major works, as well as presenting performances of the very finest in wind literature. Since 1990, the ensemble has premiered commissioned works by eminent American composers and in addition to campus programs, touring is an integral educational component of the band. Directed and conducted by the distinguished Dr. William A. Wyman, the band tour with the Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir, and perform together at a concert on Sunday evening in Westport.

No Half Measures Female Barbershop Chorus ~ Sligo, Ireland Founded in 2001 this chorus from Sligo has a well established ethos which combines attention to quality singing with providing entertaining performances and it takes pride in living up to its name!! No Half Measures is the current Irish Association of Barbershop Singers Silver Medal holders and has held that Silver medal position for the last three years. The members of the chorus are really looking forward to taking part in the Mayo International Choral Festival with the contest package they are developing for this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s IABS Convention, which will take place in Castlebar in October. Is this the Gold Medal winning package? Directed by MĂĄire Hunt. 49

Note-Orious 4 Female Barbershop Quartet Note-Orious 4 are based in Sligo and the original quartet was formed in 2011. All members are part of the barbershop chorus ‘No Half Measures’, and are in the unique combined male and female barbershop chorus ‘4 Bars Later’. As well as achieving gold in the National Female Quartet at the Barbershop Convention 2013, the quartet won first in the Barbershop Quartet competitions at the Mayo International Choral Festival and Sligo International Choral Festival in 2013 and 2014. Pictured above, from left to right are Marie Conway (Tenor), Niamh O’Driscoll (Lead), Bearna Kavanagh (Bari) and Susan Leonard (Bass).

Oban Gaelic Choir Mixed Choir ~ Scotland One of the oldest Gaelic Choirs in Scotland (formed 1891), the choir takes every opportunity to compete in local and national festivals, having swept the boards at their local Mòd and gained a 2nd place for music at the Royal National Mòd, Scotland’s main Gaelic Festival, this past year. Primarily though the members sing for enjoyment and friendship. Outside of the competition circuit the choir enjoys being part of the community promoting Gaelic language and culture, performing regularly at cèilidhs and concerts, entertaining everywhere from village halls to care homes and even ferry terminals while fundraising! Conductor and arranger is Sileas Sinclair. This is the choir’s 2nd visit to Mayo.

The Park Singers Female Choir ~ Dublin This four-part choir was formed in 1970 by Seán Creamer, and is currently conducted by Orla Gillan. Over the years the choir has performed in many venues throughout Ireland including the National Concert Hall, the Helix and Cork City Hall. The choir has also won many competitions at the Cork, Arklow, New Ross and Sligo choral festivals, as well as the Feis Ceoil, and was named the Choir of the Festival at the 2011 Cork International Choral Festival. Overseas they have gained recognition at festivals in cities such as Llandudno, Chester and Prague. The choir has released an album entitled Regardez le Chef.

The Park Singers Chamber Choir Female Choir ~ Dublin The Park Singers Chamber Choir was founded in 2013. This chamber choir comprises of approximately 20 singers who are both past and present members of the Park Singers. With a shared passion for choral music, this group enjoy performing a varied and challenging repertoire. Since their formation the group have had multiple successes in Arklow Music Festival, Derry International Choral Festival and were recently awarded the Oliver O’Brien Award for best adult choir at the ESB Feis Ceoil in March 2015. The choir is conducted by Órla Gillan.

Sandbars Barbershop Quartet The Sandbars are all members of the 4 Bars Later Barbershop Chorus from Sligo and have clocked up many years experience in the male chorus, Tone Cold Sober. Three members of this quartet are past National IABS Male Quartet silver medallists in 2013 and 2014 and the challenge of competitive quartet singing together with the fun and love of Barbershop is the real motivation for this quartet. The members of the Sandbars are looking forward to visiting Mayo in May, and also to returning to Castlebar for the 2015 IABS Convention in October. Pictured, from left to right Martin Donoghue (Tenor), Kieran Lundy (Lead), Michael Goodman (Bass) and Seán Martin (Baritone).

Skerries Sea Sharps Mixed Choir ~ Dublin From Skerries, a bustling fishing village located in North County Dublin, the choir was founded in 2010. The advertisement slogan to encourage new members to join the choir was 'Sing Yourself out of the Blues' - an antidote to the recession! Since then the choir has performed at many prestigious events including a memorial service for those lost at sea, attended by President Higgins. The choir perform up to three times a year at various venues and events. Although feeling a bit apprehensive about competing for the first time, the choir are looking forward to the challenge. Musical Director is Caroline Cutliffe.

St Marys College Singers Mixed Choir ~ Dublin Together for six years, the choir’s common denominator is that they are all parents of boys attending, or of past pupils, of St Marys College in Rathmines. The choir covers everything from Liturgical Services in the College, to Christmas Carol events, flashmobs, fundraisers and theatre. It performed in David Griegs ‘The Events’ in both Dublin and London last year, culminating in a performance with a 250-strong choir in Festival Hall on London’s South Bank! The choir have participated in choral festivals and competitions for three years, and have won titles at Navan, and AIMS New Ross. The choir’s Musical Director is Maria Stanley.

Swinford Parish Choir Mixed Voice Choir ~ Co. Mayo Established over one hundred years ago, the Swinford Senior Parish Choir, fondly known as the ‘Swinford Church Choir’ is still going strong today. The choir members meet every Tuesday evening for rehearsal and they sing at Sunday mass, under the musical direction of Francie McNicholas and organist Antoinette Byrne. At Christmas they provide carol singing services for local charities and the local hospital. New members are always welcome. The choir is really looking forward to taking part again in the festival community concert in Swinford in the Church of Our Lady Help of Christians on Friday night.

Tone Cold Sober Barbershop Chorus ~ Co. Sligo, Ireland Tone Cold Sober represents the male section of Sligo’s ‘4 Bars Later’, the only male/female barbershop chorus in the country. The group is based in Strandhill, Sligo and has performed at numerous festivals, concerts and barbershop conventions during their 10-year history. Tone Cold Sober are National Silver medallists and have enjoyed success as National Champions in 2008 and 2010. The group is delighted to support their neighbours again at the Mayo International Choral Festival, and is really looking forward to their fourth visit to Mayo. Conductor: Micheál MacGiolla Rí.

Vocalessence Ladies Choir ~ Mayo Vocalessence is a ladies choir based in Castlebar. The choir was formed in September 2014 and has 40 members from all over Mayo. The choir, directed by Kathy Fahey, held it’s first concert at Christmas 2014, in the Court House, Castlebar and also took part in the Kiltimagh Choral Festival in February this year, where it was awarded 2nd place in the ‘Ladies Choirs’ competition. The choir members sing a wide variety of music from Sacred to Rock, Traditional to Pop, and are really looking forward to participating in the Mayo International Choral Festival this year.

Voz Nua Mixed Chamber Choir ~ Portugal Voz Nua was founded by their director, Aoife Hiney, in February 2012. It is a non-auditioned community choir, which welcomes members of all ages and backgrounds. The choir rehearses at the University of Aveiro, creating a link between the university and the Aveirense communities. The name, Voz Nua, is a combination of the Portuguese and Irish languages. In Irish, ‘nua’ means new, symbolising the choir’s repertoire and objectives, namely a strong commitment to performing choral music by living composers. In Portuguese, ‘Voz Nua’ translates as ‘Naked Voices’, representing the a capella repertoire on which the choir focuses.

Western Voices Mixed Voice Choir Western Voices of AIMS is a newly formed choir with members from various musical societies across the Western Region. This choir was set for members of musical societies who do not perform on stage with their society but who still enjoy singing. It is intended to give them an outlet where they can pursue their hobby and still be part of the musical family. The choir has members from societies across the region including Galway, Claregalway, Ballinrobe, Enistymon, Castlebar, Castlerea and Loughrea. This will be it’s first public performance and the members are really looking forward to taking part in the festival. Musical Director, Paddy Daly

Westport Childrensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Choir Youth Choir ~ Mayo Formed in 2011 by Eriko and Edward Hopkinson, this secular, community based choir was founded with the aim of giving the children of the Westport area an opportunity to experience the joy of singing and learning about music together, while learning the skills, discipline and teamwork required to achieve a high standard of musical performance. Recent achievements include 1st place in the Youth and Post-Primary School Choirs competition at Kiltimagh Choral Festival 2015 and 2nd in the Youth Choirs competition at Feis Ceoil 2015, Dublin. There are currently 25 children between the ages of six and 14 in the choir. Directed by Eriko Uehara Hopkinson.

Westport Singers Mixed Voice Choir, Westport, Co Mayo The Westport Singers are a new and vibrant group, singing for the love of it, and members come from around the Westport area in County Mayo. The emphases is on fun and upbeat songs, and the choir meet regularly to rehearse and look forward to their future outings. The choir is directed by James Garvey, and accompanist is his brother Joseph. The Westport Singers look forward to representing Westport as a non competing choir in this years Mayo Festival Choral Festival - watch out for them in the months to come!

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BALLinA / EnniScronE AccommodAtion Béal an Átha | Inis Crabhann ACCOMMODATION PROVIDER NAME

Best Western Plus Ballina Manor Hotel

WEBSITE

info@ballinamanorhotel.ie

www.ballinamanorhotel.ie

Barrett St at the Moy Ridge Pool & Salmon Weir, Ballina, Co. Mayo

f. +353 96 78550

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t. +353 96 80 900

HHHH

NUMBER OF ROOMS

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Belleek Castle Hotel

info@belleekcastle.com

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t. +353 96 22400

HHH

13*

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info@diamondcoast.ie

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t. +353 96 26000

HHHH

52*

Downhill House Hotel & Eagles Leisure Club info@downhillhotel.ie

www.downhillhotel.ie

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HHH

60*

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info@downhillinn.ie

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HHH

45*

Hotel Ballina

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t. +353 96 23600

HHHH

87*

Ice House Hotel

chill@theicehouse.ie

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t. +353 96 23 500

HHHH

32*

reservations@mountfalcon.com

www.mountfalcon.com

t. +353 96 74472

HHHH

122*

Belleek, Ballina, Co. Mayo Bartragh, Enniscrone, Co. Sligo Ballina, Co. Mayo

Sligo Road, Ballina, Co. Mayo N26, Dublin Road, Ballina, Co. Mayo The Quay, Ballina, Co. Mayo

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ashford@ashford.ie

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t. +353 94 9546003

HHHHH

reception@lisloughreylodge.com

www.lisloughreylodge.com

t. +353 94 95 45400

HHHH

Cong, Co. Mayo

The Quay, Cong, Co. Mayo

GRADING

WEBSITE

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TEL NO. & FAX NO.

f. +353 94 9546260

(FAILTE IRELAND)

NUMBER OF ROOMS

83* 50*

cAStLEBAr AccommodAtion Caisleán an Bharraigh ACCOMMODATION PROVIDER NAME

Breaffy House Hotel

info@breaffyhouseresort.ie

Breaffy Woods Hotel

info@breaffyhouseresort.ie

Breaffy, Castlebar, Co. Mayo

Harlequin Hotel

Lannagh Rd, Castlebar, Co. Mayo

info@harlequin.ie

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GRADING (FAILTE IRELAND)

NUMBER OF ROOMS

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HHH

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HHH

134*

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HHHH

90*

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f. +353 94 9286201

132*

Lough Lannagh Holiday Village

info@loughlannagh.ie

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t. +353 94 9027111

HHHH

60*

TF Royal Hotel

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www.tfroyalhotel.com

t. +353 094 9023111

HHH

12*

welcomeinn@eircom.net

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t. +353 94 9022288

32*

Lannagh Rd, Castlebar, Co. Mayo

Old Westport Rd, Castlebar, Co. Mayo

Welcome Inn Hotel

New Antrim St, Castlebar, Co. Mayo

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GRADING (FAILTE IRELAND)

HHHH

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103*

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Mayfly Hotel

Main St, Foxford, Co. Mayo

Pontoon Bridge Hotel

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info@mayflyhotel.com

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KiLtimAgH / KnocK AccommodAtion Coillte Mach | Cnoc Mhuire ACCOMMODATION PROVIDER NAME

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Park Hotel

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t. +353 94 937 4922

Knock House Hotel

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Swinford Rd, Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo Ballyhaunis Road, Knock, Co. Mayo

GRADING (FAILTE IRELAND)

HHH

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HHH

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NUMBER OF ROOMS

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GRADING (FAILTE IRELAND)

Newport House Hotel

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t. +353 98 41222

HHHH

Mulranny Park Hotel

info@mulrannyparkhotel.ie

www.mulrannyparkhotel.ie

t. +353 98 36000

HHHH

Newport, Co. Mayo

Mulranny, Co. Mayo

f. +353 98 41613

f. +353 98 36 899

NUMBER OF ROOMS

16* 61*

SWinFord AccommodAtion Béal Átha na Muice ACCOMMODATION PROVIDER NAME

Gateway Hotel

Main St, Swinford, Co. Mayo

info@gatewayswinford.com

WEBSITE

TEL NO. & FAX NO.

www.gatewayswinford.com

t. +353 94 9252156

WEBSITE

TEL NO. & FAX NO.

Castlecourt Hotel, Spa & Leisure Castlebar St, Westport, Co. Mayo

Clew Bay Hotel

James St, Westport, Co. Mayo

info@castlecourthotel.ie info@clewbayhotel.com

22*

NUMBER OF ROOMS

HHH

www.atlanticcoasthotel.com

t. +353 98 29000

HHHH

85*

www.castlecourthotel.ie

t. +353 98 55088

HHHH

157*

www.clewbayhotel.com

+353 98 28088

HHH

54*

Quay Rd, Westport, Co. Mayo

The Quay, Westport, Co. Mayo

GRADING (FAILTE IRELAND)

NUMBER OF ROOMS

+353 98 25811

Best Western Plus Westport Woods Hotel info@westportwoodshotel.com www.westportwoodshotel.com Carlton Atlantic Coast Hotel reservations@atlanticcoastwestport.com

HHH

f. +353 94 9251328

WEStPort AccommodAtion Cathair na Mart ACCOMMODATION PROVIDER NAME

GRADING (FAILTE IRELAND)

f. +353 98 26212

f. +353 98 29111

f. +353 98 28622

f. +353 98 39110

122*

www.theharbourmill.com

+353 98 28555

HHHH

65*

reservations@hotelwestport.ie

www.hotelwestport.ie

+353 98 25122

HHHH

129*

Knockranny Hotel & Spa

info@khh.ie

www.knockrannyhousehotel.ie

+353 98 28600

HHHH

110*

Mill Times Hotel Westport

info@milltimeshotel.ie

t. +353 98 29200

HHH

34*

The Harbour Mill Apartments (Self Catering) info@theharbourmill.com Westport Quay, Westport, Co. Mayo

Hotel Westport

Newport Rd, Westport, Co. Mayo

Westport, Co. Mayo

Town Centre, Westport, Co. Mayo

Westport Plaza Hotel

The Octagon, Westport, Co. Mayo

f. +353 98 26739

f. +353 98 28611

f. +353 98 29250

info@westportplazahotel.ie

www.westportplazahotel.ie

+353 98 51166

HHHH

87*

info@wyatthotel.com

www.wyatthotel.com

+353 98 25027

HHH

50*

Spa & Leisure, Castlebar St, Westport, Co. Mayo

Wyatt Hotel

www.milltimeshotel.ie

f. +353 98 28636

f. +353 98 51133

f. +353 98 26316

* Please enquire at each hotel to confirm total no. of rooms available at time of booking, which may be greater or less than indicated above. Please note, the number of rooms in most cases signify 2 beds per room, however please enquire at each hotel to confirm bedroom layouts.

Lóistín Eile BED & BrEAKFAst ACCOMMODAtION For Bed and Breakfast, Guest House and Hostel accommodation in Mayo, phone +353 98 25711 or visit www.discoverireland.ie

Upcoming Choral Events Supported by Mayo International Choral Festival

The Santa Margarita High School Choir Galway Gospel Choir & Westport Singers Saturday, June 13th, Holy Trinity Church, Westport More details to be announced

Canadian Orpheus Male Voice Choir Friday, September 25th, Church of the Holy Rosary, Castlebar More details to be announced

All details subject to change. The festival and associated community committees, printers, designers and any other person / organising committee working on behalf of / engaged by Mayo International Choral Festival, accepts no responsibility for changes, errors, or ommissions contained in festival print, signage, electronic / online / video / verbal / audio promotions.

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