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ALL ABOUT CORK 1
(YHQLQJ (FKR Monday, May 6, 2013
Monday, May 6
Bealtaine festival honours wisdom ‘Creativity as we age’ is theme of May event CORK’S Millennium Hall at City Hall will be a hive of free events, performances and workshops for older people this month during Bealtaine.
The Bealtaine Festival runs from Tuesday, May 14, to Friday, May 17, and aims to celebrate ‘creativity as we age’. Dancing, sketching, a musical quiz, knitting and flag-making are all included in the programme. Art By Us is a exhibition that will celebrate the work created by older people and will kick off the week. Beginner or skilled artists are also urged to take part in the free three-day drawing course called the Early Bird Pencil Club facilitated by artist Tadhg Hickey. If dance and movement is more your thing come meet Helga Deasy for an introduction to creative
dance, or if you have many tunes in your head The Chameleon Musical Quiz is for you. If you have a grĂĄ for knitting the Ballyphehane/Togher Community Crafts Initiative are hosting a knitting event with a difference or if a show is your thing new Cork group Chameleon will entertain you with Good Night Irene and A Musical Tour of West Cork. There is also an opportunity to participate in the largest public art event Cork has ever seen. Cork Community Artlink will host a Voices of Shandon flag-making workshop where you will be facilitated to make a flag which will join 1,000 others to colour the skyline as part of a temporary art installation on St Anne Church Shandon in June. A brochure with the full programme is available from City Hall or the arts office on (021) 492 4736.
Soprano Deirdre Moynihan with students from Col‥iste Colm, Ballincollig Aoife McPolin and Ciara O'Hanlon at the launch of a new website called Choirs Can. Picture: Darragh Kane
Music website gets chorus of approval A NEW initiative to help us learn choral arrangements of traditional Irish songs has been launched. Choirs Can launched as part of the Cork International Choral Festival, and provides a range of ways to learn and teach eight folk favourites on their website www.choirscan.com. Many people will already be familiar with the melodies of the songs, which were all included in &DV $PKUĂ„Q, the 1975 collection of songs assembled by MĂchĂĄel Ă“ hEidhin that can be
found in homes and schools across the country. The Choirs Can project, lead by Deirdre Moynihan, is aimed at secondary school or non-professional choirs and contains brand new arrangements by Deirdre, Mark Armstrong and Andrew Synnott — all well-established Irish composers. Each of the songs can be downloaded in songpacks that include printable sheet music; a recording by the vocal ensemble Moving Voices; a
spoken recording of the Irish words and a further series of recordings with each voice made more prominent in turn. As well as being audio tracks that each part of the choir can sing along to separately, these are pronunciation tools for the Irish language. Deidre said: “This will be a valuable resource for choirs in Ireland, and will have huge appeal for international choirs who are constantly seeking new Irish choral arrangements.�
Sopranos Deirdre Moynihan and Carmel Falvey with Tenor Seån Lehane from Colåiste Choilm with students from Colåiste Choilm — Aoife McPolin, Evan McCåba, Luke Gallagher, Donncha Murphy and Ciara O’Hanlon — at the launch of a new website called Choirs Can. Picture: Darragh Kane