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SOME of the leading lights of the last decade of the Lismorahaun Singers will return to north Clare for a series of festive concerts this December.
Leading soloists such as tenor Pe- ter O’Donohue, soprano Kate Daly and the choir’s young new talent Katie O’Donohue, will join an army of other voices for the three-concert series which will mark the 10th an- niversary of the choir.
The concert will take the form of a musical stroll down memory lane with the Lismorahaun Singer revisit- ing their most famous performance, with a selection of numbers from Mozart’s ‘Requiem’.
The ‘Requiem’ was first performed by the choir in Ennistymon and in Dublin’s RDS in 2005 and was later released as the Lismorahaun first al- bum.
Along with the “Requiem’, the con- cert will also feature a selection of the most popular numbers performed by the choir over the last decade in- cluding Vivaldi, Verdi, Orff and a host of other celebrated composers.
The second of the concert will feature a range of both secular and traditional Christmas favourites that have become popular with audiences as part of the choir’s annual holiday ee ae
Each of their three concerts will raise money for a different local OirWwIA
The first concert will take place on Saturday, December 12, in Lisdoon-
varna and will benefit the local Pavil- ion Theatre. The community building
has been totally restored by the local community over the last number of
years and now, among other things, is home and rehearsal space for the Lismorahaun Singers.
Proceeds from the second con- cert, which takes place at the Fri- ary Church in Ennis on Wednesday, December 16, will go towards the Special Olympics. Fittingly, the final concert in the series will take place at the site of their first ever perform- ance – St John the Baptist Church in Ballyvaughan, with all money raised going towards vital repairs for the Church. This final performance will take place on Thursday, December 17.
“The choir would like to welcome everyone to come and celebrate our tenth birthday in high style this year,” said PRO of the Lismorahaun Sing- ers, Marych O’Sullivan-Sanford.
“We all wish to express, in song, our sincere thanks for the generous enthusiasm received from so many concertgoers over the years.”
The concerts will take place on the 12, 16 and 17 of December in Lis- doonvarna, Ennis and Ballyvaughan. Tickets are available from €15 (€50 family ticket) from Jordans in Lisdoonvarna; Mooneys in Bal- lyvaughan; Crosbies in Ennistymon and Scéal Eile in Ennis.