The DMEP are very excited to announce that the Donegal Youth Choir, led by conductor Sara Laughlin, are off to Dublin on Easter Sunday to take part in one of the biggest events in the year of 1916 celebrations – the live televised concert ‘A Nation’s Voice’.

Thirty members of the choir will join more than 1,000 singers from all over the country and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra for the open-air concert at the National Museum Collins Barracks.

The concert will be presented by Miriam O’Callaghan and will be broadcast live at 2.30pm on RTÉ One, RTÉ Radio 1 Extra and on longwave.

The programme includes the world première of ‘One Hundred Years a Nation’, a new orchestral and choral work commissioned for the occasion by RTÉ from composer Shaun Davey with text by writer Paul Muldoon.

This is a very exciting time for the choir and for DMEP, we are very proud to be a part of such a magnificant event. We would like to wish all of you the very best of luck!

The concert is free. Tickets were allocated through a nationwide raffle.

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Are you interested in singing and would like the opportunity
to develop your musicality in a fun environment?

Do you enjoy performing and being part of a team?

Donegal Youth Choir (DYC) is now recruiting new members for the
2015-16 academic year. Membership is by audition only.
Who can join? Any young male & female singers aged between14 and 20 who enjoy singing.

Auditions will be held on: Sunday, 27th September at 3.15pm in the Regional Cultural Centre, Port Road, Letterkenny.
No booking necessary, just turn up. Please prepare one short piece that you feel shows of your singing ability.

Donegal Youth Choir – Who we are…
• Established by Donegal Music Education Partnership, this vibrant choir of young singers
(DYC) continues to go from strength to strength each year.

• Under the direction of Sara Laughlin, DYC has enjoyed performances in various Donegal
venues including An Grianán Theatre, The Balor theatre & The Abbey Centre, and
nationally in The Mansion House, Dublin, NUI Maynooth, RTE Studios, Donnybrook,
and the 2014 Electric Picnic.

• This season will see DYC perform alongside the RTE National Symphony Orchestra &
Philharmonic Choir, and choirs throughout Ireland, in an exciting 1916 commemoration
event that will include newly composed music by Shaun Davey and words by poet Paul
Muldoon. Public performance in Spring of 2016 with associated radio broadcast on RTE
Lyric FM.

• Bi-weekly Sunday rehearsals in the Regional Cultural Centre Letterkenny from 4 –
6.30pm.

• The first rehearsal of the new academic year takes place on the same day as the auditions,
Sunday 27 Sept, from 4 – 6.30pm, and every two weeks from then.

• Annual Membership Fee €100.00

Quotes from previous and current members:
“I have made some friends for life through Donegal Youth Choir. The concerts are class and
rehearsals are so much fun. We are so lucky to be a part of DYC”
“I am so much more confident since I joined the choir, everyone tells me that my voice has
improved lots and I love singing more and more every week. The craic is mighty too!!!”
“Since joining Donegal Youth Choir my confidence has grown so much and my singing has
improved. I feel like I am part of something very special”
“I really enjoy all of our performances and rehearsals.
We are like one big family and I feel confident to sing
out and have fun”

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