St Etchen’s and St Kenny pupils perform with full orchestra
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The choir at St Paul’s Church, Mullingar on Thursday evening.Image 2 of 13
Joanna Fagan from St Kenny NS conducting the choir.Image 3 of 13
Chloe Kelly, Ruby McCluskey, Demi Smith and Ruth Faye on Thursday evening.Image 4 of 13
Ellen Bradley and Mark Daly from Walshestown.Image 5 of 13
Rachel Collins, Amber Mulligan and Sukhnoor Kaur before their performance.Image 6 of 13
Harry Geraghty and Katie O'Sullivan from Kinnegad.Image 7 of 13
Max Ruth, Maher Khan and Mason Clynes from the National Children’s Choir.Image 8 of 13
Adam Doyle and Kai Tormey at St Paul's Church.Image 9 of 13
Sophia Waldron, Crystal Higgins and Emily Conway from St Etchen's NS.Image 10 of 13
Bronwyn Mooney, Gurnoor Power and Layla Gallagher before the show.Image 11 of 13
Sophie Fox, Farrah Smith and Aileen Keena with Millie Walsh.Image 12 of 13
Alex Wheeler, Marcelo Correa, Jason Ruane, Coby Masterson and Daniel Smyth from St Kenny NS.Image 13 of 13
Leon Quinn from Ballinea and DJ Scahill from Mullingar.The National Children’s Choir is a school based choral experience that takes place around the country every other year. Children learn songs from classical to modern music, by reading print music and singing in parts.
Local schools then join together and perform a concert in their community.
St Etchen’s NS of Kinnegad and St Kenny NS staged a concert with full orchestra in St Paul’s Church, Mullingar, last Thursday, April 3, under the direction of Joanna Fagan, who is a teacher, and a renowned musician.
Since 1985 some 180,000 children have enjoyed the experience of singing with the National Children’s Choir at a local level. This year marks the 40th (ruby) anniversary, and that is thanks to the musical directors Anne Purcell, Máiréad Déiseach and Órla Gillen.
This year 8,000 children will perform in 22 concerts around the country for thousands of audience members.
The students and teachers have been working hard learning this music since last September.