Special summer concert in Louisburgh Town Hall

LOUISBURGH Music School will present a summer concert in Louisburgh Town Hall on Wednesday, May 28, commencing at 7.30 p.m.

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 Into the Woods, Oliver!, Hamilton and La La Land, 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 of Louisburgh’s entry for the 2024 national Pride of Place awards (towns with a population of 2,000-5,000), in which Louisburgh won first place.

Tickets (€15/€10) are available now from Gala, Louisburgh, and Seamus Duffy’s Bookshop, Westport, or from www.louisburghmusicschool.com.