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Bealtaine Tea Party

Image credit: Pauline McDonald Smith

We had a lovely afternoon in the Johnston Central Library on Tuesday May 6th. Libraries across the country invited people to celebtrate Bealtaine together at an indoor picnic with music and singing.

We sang four sings - Look at the World, The Pilgrim, Can't Help Falling in Love with You, and All The Jazz. It was lovely to have some former members attending, and to see folk joining in. We also enjoyed singing along with Teresa McKiernan and the Friends of Parkinson's Singers, some of whom are former members of Cavan Singers. Thanks to Pauline McDonald-Smith and her colleagues at the library for organising the Bealtaine picnic and inviting us to be part of it it all.

Image credit: Mags Amond

Where We Belong - podcast launch

We were delighted to attend the launch of the Heritage Council podcast series Where We Belong' yesterday in Breffni Park Gallery. We were represented by committee members Fidelma Sheridan & Brid Brady, and basses Dermot McMonagle & Jan van Haster who took part with tenor Mags Amond in our podcast recording. Dermot & Jan are pictured here at the event with producers Savina Donohue & Alan Bradley 

Bealtaine Party Tuesday May 6th

We are going to a party! The Bealtaine Tea Party is in library spaces all over the country next Tuesday May 6th. we will sing some songs and listen to some others, have a cuppa and a chat. Details are in Johnston Central Library

Sacred Songs and Sounds at the Cathedral in Cavan

We are preparing for our end of season concert. This year we are inviting you to join us in the Cathedral of SS. Patrick & Felim in Cavan town, at 8pm on Tuesday May 13th. As well as singing our own repertoire with our Musical Director Eileen Tackney and our choir soloists, we will present as our guest musicians the organist Simon Harden, and the organ scholars from St Patrick's College, Cavan.

Our program of song for 2025 includes classical, pastoral, and traditional spiritual pieces, from the dreaming of Rutter, Larson, and Fauré to the drama of Orff, Mozart, Handel, Verdi, and more. 

Tickets can be purchased in person from Cavan Gifts on Main St., or online via the Town Hall Arts Centre website at https://townhallartscentre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173663990 

As with all our concerts, all proceeds [after costs] are donated to charity.

Cavan Singers featured as ARTS+HEALTH Case Study

Cavan Singers are delighted to be featured as ARTS+HEALTH Case Study for April 2025.

About Arts+Health

artsandhealth.ie is the national website for arts and health in Ireland. It is the central information and support hub for artists, arts professionals, healthcare communities and researchers working or interested in the field of arts and health who believe that the arts have a key role to play in healthcare provision and hope to inspire our visitors with leading examples of arts and health practice in Ireland and beyond. It is is managed by Réalta, the National Resource Organisation developing Arts and Health in Ireland, with the support of an Editorial Panel. The site is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and the HSE (Health Service Executive), the public healthcare system in the Republic of Ireland. The website publishes Case Studies that showcase examples of diverse arts and health projects characterised by clear artistic vision, goals and outcomes ... the diversity of artforms, contexts, partnerships and structures gives an insight into the full range of arts and health practice across Ireland.

Cavan Singers Case Study 

Cavan Singers are delighted to be the subject of the Arts and Health Case Study published in April 2024. This highlights both the contribution that singing together has made to individual members of our choir, and the contibution that our choir as a collective has made to our community in the forty years since we were founded. The findings survey of our memebr carried out in 2024 are presented in the context of those forty years we have been singing together. You can read it, and all case studies logged since 2011, here, and you can watch our presentation in the. Johnstone Central Library here. It is nice to think that the video taken by the late Brian Daly, who was so generous with his time and talent on our behalf, is now linked to this Arts & Health website.

Our thanks to Emma Eager, the Project Coordinator for the National Website for Arts and Health in Ireland, for her assitance and guidance in presenting our Case Study.

Link to the Arts and Health Case Study: https://www.artsandhealth.ie/case-studies/cavan-singers-celebrating-forty-years-of-community-singing/ 

Link to Brian Daly's video of our 40th Anniversary Celebration: https://vimeo.com/916443571 

Go go go Sue (and company!)

 

Cavan Institute gave us all a treat this week with a marvelous production of Joeslph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Our own Sue Donohoe was Musical Director of the production (and orchestra conductor on the night) and some of our Cavan Singers were in the singing chorus. Acting, singing, choreography, music, staging were all a delight. It was lovely to see the entire Cavan Instiute involved in the production. Definitely a treat for the audience, a lot of whom seemed to know every word! It was also good to see the enjoyment of the younger folk who were seeing this show for the first time. A huge thank you to all involved.