Belfast SOS Bus Charity Concert; Music in Calary; St Patrick’s Coleraine hosts IONA on the feast of Columba; Lunchtime Recital; Saint Bartholomew’s Girls Choir visit; Andy Flannagans new album
SOS Bus Charity Concert
The Dublin Orchestral Players are performing on Saturday 2nd June at Fisherwick Church, Belfast in aid of SOS Bus. The bus has been providing a safe haven for vulnerable people on the streets of Belfast for the past 4 years.
Programme
Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto and Beethoven’s 5th Symphony
Soloist: Ioana Petcu Colan
Conductor: Ciaran Crilly
This is the first time the orchestra have played in Northern Ireland for many years so it is an occasion not to be missed!
7.30pm – 9.00pm Fisherwick Church, Belfast Tickets: Adult £12, Concession £10
Light refreshments will be served after the concert.
To book your ticket/s please contact Emma Hayes via email: emma.hayes@sosbusni.com or call (028) 9066 4505.
Music in Calary
This year’s Sacred Spaces concert is “Baroque Masterpieces”, which will be presented in Calary Church at 8pm on Friday 8 June. The concert features established and respected Wicklow–based musicians Annette Cleary (Cello), Rachel Factor (Harpsichord) and Eamon Sweeney (Baroque Guitar) and will include music from Antonio Vivaldi, Jean–Philippe Rameau, and Turlough O’Carolan. Tickets are €15, or €12 for concessions, and can be booked by emailing derekneilson@eircom.net or phoning John at (01) 2818146.
St Patrick’s Coleraine hosts IONA on the feast of Columba
On Saturday June 9 St Patrick’s Church, Coleraine, will be hosting the renowned Christian band IONA on a rare visit to Northern Ireland.
With the doors opening at 6.30pm for a 7.00pm concert start, tickets are priced at £12.50 and are available online from www.christiantickets.co.uk www.musicglue.com or from St. Patrick’s Parish Office, tel: 028 7034 4213.
Taking their name from the small island off the west coast of Scotland, the stirring sounds of IONA are inspired by the great figures of the Celtic Golden Age such as Columba.
On this auspicious day, named after that great Saint, their timeless sound will span the centuries on the site of the place where he stopped to visit with the Bishop of Coleraine on his way home from a convention. During his visit, the local people brought offerings of food which St. Columba blessed and these would have been eaten during a feast held in his honour.
Uniquely combining rock / folk / progressive / ethnic and ambient elements with the crystalline voice of Joanne Hogg as their focus, IONA create ‘a blaze of colours and textures…all the sounds fusing into a single, yearning, heartfelt beautiful cry.’
All are welcome to come along and be prepared to be lost in the mists of time with IONA and their spiritual, atmospheric, yet uplifting, music filled with melody and passion.
Lunchtime Recital at St Ann’s, Dawson Street
A lunchtime recital of ‘Stanford’s Biblical Song’ with Rory Musgrave (baritone) and Charles Marshall (organ) takes place in St Ann’s Church, Dawson Street, on Monday June 11 at 1.15 pm. Admission is free but donations are accepted. For further information contact: 01–6767727.
Saint Bartholomew’s Girls Choir to Visit Killiskey Church
The girls and gentlemen of Saint Bartholomew’s Church Choir, Dublin, together with their Director of Music, Tristan Russcher, visit Nuns Cross Church, Killiskey, Ashford, on Sunday June 17 to sing a traditional Service of Choral Evensong at 7.30 pm.
The Service of Choral Evensong dates back to the Book of Common Prayer (1662) and is used daily in Anglican Cathedral Churches worldwide. The tradition of singing the daily office is maintained here in Ireland in Cathedrals in Dublin, Cork and Belfast.
The service in Killiskey Church has been organised by Canon John Clarke and the Revd Ken Rue as part of the preparation for the Confirmation group who are due to be confirmed by the Archbishop later this year.
The music for the service will include some well known congregational hymns, a setting of the Evening Canticles by Irish born composer, Charles Villiers Stanford, and an anthem by Baroque composer and sometime organist of Westminster Abbey, Henry Purcell.
The girls and gentlemen of Saint Bartholomew’s Choir have performed in Cathedrals in Dublin, Armagh, Kilkenny, Cashel and Cork as well as visiting St Mark’s Cathedral in Venice for a concert tour in 2009. Their CD “ And the house was filled with smoke “ recorded in December 2011 will be available for sale after the service.
This will be the second occasion that a Choir from Saint Bartholomew’s Church will have visited Killiskey Church. On a previous occasion the boys and gentlemen performed a concert in aid of the Church Restoration Fund in May 2002.
Andy Flannagans new album tackles broken humanity
Andy Flannagans long awaited new album Drowning in the Shallow is available to preorder on iTunes
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/andy.flannagans.new.album.tackles.broken.humanity/29866.htm