Summer Concert from Louisburgh Music School
Ruby Smyth as Little Red Riding Hood. Ruby will be performing a song from 'Into the Woods' at Louisburgh Music School's Summer Concert on Wednesday, May 28th, at 7:30pm in Louisburgh Town Hall. Picture: Michael McLaughlin
Louisburgh Music School will be presenting a Summer Concert in Louisburgh Town Hall on Wednesday, May 28th, at 7.30pm. The concert will feature songs, choral music and instrumental music on the theme ‘Underneath the Stars’.
Louisburgh Music School is marking seven years of music-making in Louisburgh, where it was established by Pauline Graham and Michael Quinn. Students of Louisburgh Music School will be performing well-known songs from several musicals and movies, including and , along with classical favourites. The programme will also include piano music by Beethoven, Schubert and Karen Tanaka, and traditional tunes.
Louisburgh Voices, directed by Pauline Graham, and accompanied by Michael Quinn, will perform evocative choral music by Kate Rusby and Morten Lauridsen, and Jacob Narverud’s ‘Lunar Lullaby’.
Louisburgh Voices presented Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas in Louisburgh; they have performed in Ballintubber Abbey and Castlebar, and at last year’s Mary Robinson Climate Conference in Ballina. The choir is also featured on the soundtrack for a video produced as part Louisburgh’s entry for the 2024 national Pride of Place awards in which Louisburgh won first place in the category for towns with a population of 2,000-5,000.
Tickets: (€15/€10) available now from Gala, Louisburgh and Seamus Duffy’s Bookshop, Westport.
