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Wicklow Sings Festival
5th April 2025
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5th April 2025
05 Apr 2025, 19:00 – 23:00
Temple Carrig School,
Greystones, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
About us
Wicklow Sings is a community arts festival for choirs based in County Wicklow. Established in 2016, it is an annual event held in Spring in Greystones.
2025 Festival Choirs
If your choir would like to participate in the 2025 festival please complete the registration form here: Registration Form
Unity Gospel Choir
Unity Gospel Choir is a vibrant and energetic choir hosting members from all across County Wicklow. Led by the dynamic duo of Jamie Lyon and Neville Cox, this fun-loving group brings a joyful mix of gospel, spiritual, and pop music to life, ensuring every rehearsal is filled with energy, laughter, and passion.
Right now, Unity Gospel Choir are gearing up for their highly anticipated end-of-year concert—a spectacular event you won’t want to miss! Stay tuned and catch all the excitement at unitygospelchoir.ie.
Right now, Unity Gospel Choir are gearing up for their highly anticipated end-of-year concert—a spectacular event you won’t want to miss! Stay tuned and catch all the excitement at unitygospelchoir.ie.
Wicklow Parkinsons Choir
A choir for people with Parkinson’s, carers, family and friends. A fun singing group that enjoys singing and socialising together. Led by Dara Mac Mahon, WPC meets every Monday morning in Ashford Community and Heritage Centre at 11.30am. All welcome to join anytime – no singing experience required!
Enquiries wicklowparkinsons@gmail.com
Enquiries wicklowparkinsons@gmail.com
Bella Voce
Bella Voce Choir was formed as the Do-Mi-So Choir by Clare Cherry Kinito and Frank Kelly in 2017. The choir numbers around 30 and includes members from the south Dublin and north Wicklow area. Bella Voce sing a wide range of genres of music from classical pieces to popular songs and songs from musicals and films. Frank directs and accompanies the choir in lively and gentle mood. Bella Voce have performed a concert at Christmas and in the summertime each season and resumed after the COVID pandemic with a very successful Summer Sounds concert in 2022 in Christchurch Delgany; the choir’s rehearsal venue. They also held a very successful Christmas concert in December 2022. The choir fundraises for local and national charities at their concerts but the real emphasis is the enjoyment of singing together!
Wicklow Singers
Wicklow Singers was founded in 2022 by Frank Kelly who direct and accompanies along with his duaghter, Rebecca. Wicklow Singers is a mixed voice community choir of about 50 members, based in Wicklow town. The choir welcomes all comers who love to sing and the rehearsals are held in an inclusive and encouraging environment covering songs from musicals and films, popular somgs and light classical songs. Audio learning resources are provided and vocal coaching is included. Ability to read music is not necessary. This will be the choirs first appearance at Wicklow Sings and the members are excited!
Avondale Voices
Avondale Voices is a Community Choir based near Avoca in County Wicklow, under the directorship of Jennifer Lee. Our members are drawn from all over Co Wicklow from Greystones to Tinahely. We sing a diverse range of music for local concerts and fundraising events. We have also been delighted to perform at Wicklow Culture Night and the Wicklow Sings Festival.
We rehearse every Wednesday at 7.30 p.m. in the Hartin Hall beside Castlemacdam Church, just south of Avoca on the road to Woodenbridge. Avondale Voices will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in September 2023.
We are delighted that the choir survived the Covid years by rehearsing on Zoom thanks to the commitment of Jennifer and the members. The video recordings we produced remotely during this time are available to view on YouTube. You can also find us on Facebook.
We are always happy to welcome new members. If you’d like to sing and make some new friends why not come and join in at a rehearsal. We are always learning and always having fun.
We rehearse every Wednesday at 7.30 p.m. in the Hartin Hall beside Castlemacdam Church, just south of Avoca on the road to Woodenbridge. Avondale Voices will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in September 2023.
We are delighted that the choir survived the Covid years by rehearsing on Zoom thanks to the commitment of Jennifer and the members. The video recordings we produced remotely during this time are available to view on YouTube. You can also find us on Facebook.
We are always happy to welcome new members. If you’d like to sing and make some new friends why not come and join in at a rehearsal. We are always learning and always having fun.
Greystones Community College Choir
Greystones Community College Choir is a post primary ensemble consisting of a small number of students from 1st and 2nd year. This young choir which is in its infancy has matured considerably in the last two years since their inception. Under the guidance of Ms Aoife Jones and accompanied by Ms Sinead O'Donovan, the choir has gained confidence and has enjoyed perfroming at many recent events to great acclaim. Growing in numbers annually, the choir has become the heart of Greystones Community College and has already started gaining praise in the wider community as they leave no stone unturned in their musical endeavours.
The Sound Crowd
The Sound Crowd is Music Generation Wicklow's community choir for children aged 8-12 with children from five local schools and rehearses weekly at Greystones Community School. Under the baton of experienced choir leader and Music Generation Wicklow Musician Educator Joan Dempsey, The Sound Crowd explores a wide range of repertoire, placing fun and musicality at the heart of the rehearsal and performance experience. It is a choir for children and young people who love to sing. Founded on the Music Generation principle of making music accessible for all, The Sound Crowd aims to enrich children's lives through performance and they are all delighted to have this opportunity to sing at the Wicklow Sings Festival!
Temple Carrig Singers
Temple Carrig Singers is a choir for parents in Temple Carrig School (past and present). Set up in 2023, the choir had its debut performance at Wicklow Sings 2024.
A fun, relaxed, sociable group, singing a diverse range of music, who enjoy performing at concerts, events and fundraisers. New members always welcome. Conductor Dara Mac Mahon
A fun, relaxed, sociable group, singing a diverse range of music, who enjoy performing at concerts, events and fundraisers. New members always welcome. Conductor Dara Mac Mahon
Temple Carrig School Choir
Temple Carrig School Choirs consist of committed and ambitious students from 1st to 6th Year who enjoy regular performance opportunities both within school and in the wider community. The choir has performed at Wicklow Sings since it started. Conductors Alison Halpin/Hayley O’Sullivan
Baltinglass Sings
Baltinglass SINGS is a newly formed non auditioned community choir. The choir developed through the Creative Places Baltinglass and over initiative and has grown from strength to strength. Members are drawn from across West Wicklow and rehearse weekly for 1.5 hours in the Lalor Centre in Baltinglass. The choir sings mostly popular repertoire in 2 and 3 parts. Musical director Paula Phelan
Get Singing Choir
Get Singing Choir (Greystones) - The Get Singing Choir began in the early 2010's after Wicklow Co. Council started an initiative to encourage people to start singing. In the years since, through generous sponsorship from local businesses, our numbers have grown to over 30 dedicated members. We practice every Thursday afternoon at 12pm in Greystones Lawn Tennis Club under the Musical Direction of tenor Shane Barriscale. We sing a fun mixture of traditional airs, pop songs and songs from musicals. As a way of giving back to the community, we sing twice yearly for 'Musical Memories', which supports them in the wonderful work they do. New members are always welcome to join. Contact: Jo Leonard 086 6051294
St David's Holy Faith Secondary School Choir
St David's Holy Faith Secondary School Choir – students from 1st to 6th year enjoy bi-weekly rehearsals and a busy performance schedule, most recently the 3 Schools Carol Concert in Greystones, St David’s Christmas concert and the Wesley College Interschool Music Festival. The choir is very excited to be performing for the first time at Wicklow Sings this year. Conductor Joyce Murphy. Accompanists Emma Cronly and Eoghan Noonan
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Charity Partner
Wicklow Sings is delighted to support the charity Fields for Life this year and the Transition Year students from Temple Carrig School who are fundraising to build a water well in Uganda, bringing clean, fresh, safe water to this community for the first time. All monies raised from the raffle at the event will go directly to funding the well.
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