2024 FESTIVAL
Young Voices
THURSDAY 30TH MAY, 7.00PM - UNIVERSITY CONCERT HALL
The inaugural dedicated Limerick Sings youth concert, this exciting concert featured a selection of local and regional school and youth choirs.
Each choir performed a short collection of songs from their own repertoire before joining together to sing as one choir under the baton of acclaimed Musical Director Máire Keary-Scanlon.
Performing Choirs
Cantette (Co. Limerick)
Cór na Scoile Gaelscoil an Ráithín (Co. Limerick)
Kildysart Children’s Choir (Co. Clare)
Milford National School Choir (Co. Limerick)
Thomond Primary School Choir (Co. Limerick)
Presented by Liz Nolan, RTÉ lyric fm
CHORAL TRAIL
FRIDAY 7TH JUNE, 12.00PM - BUNRATTY CASTLE
Knot Another Choir (UK)
The Limerick Sings Choral Trail brings choirs out to venues around the community for fun, pop-up performances. 2024 saw the Festival return to the popular destination Bunratty Castle, for an energetic, showstopping performance by Yorkshire group Knot Another Choir.
SINGING without a safety net Workshop
with the swingles
FRIDAY 7TH JUNE, 4PM - UNIVERSITY CONCERT HALL
We were delighted to be joined by The Swingles for an afternoon exploring the joys of improvising music together.
The Swingles helped to banish inhibitions and use the tools we all possess to create music in the moment. This was a truly empowering session that got to the heart of what musicality means.
OPENING GALA CONCERT - THE swingles
FRIDAY 7TH JUNE, 7.30PM - UNIVERSITY CONCERT HALL
The Limerick Sings International Choral Festival was delighted to welcome The Swingles as the 2024 guest choral group.
The Swingles have been challenging the boundaries of vocal music for over 60 years. Their unique sound quickly established them as one of the world’s most beloved and admired vocal groups, and their sophisticated arrangements remain unparalleled. The current seven singers are masters of their craft, constantly seeking new ways to reimagine music from jazz, folk, classical and pop genres by creating arrangements and writing new original songs. Their fans span several generations, with each live performance capturing the hearts of audience members across the globe.
With their trademark vocal dexterity and innate musicality, the group’s secret ingredient is the ability of the seven singers, soloists, songwriters and storytellers to combine as one seamlessly blended and timeless sound. The Swingles have always made creative use of close-mic amplification, and in the last decade, they have added unique live audio looping techniques to their stage performances – an immersive layering up of vocals to mesmerise the audience.
Presented by Liz Nolan, RTÉ lyric FM
Outdoor Chorus
with BERNIE SHERLOCK
SATURDAY 8TH JUNE, 9.00AM - UNIVERSITY CONCERT HALL & CLIFFS OF MOHER
Over 200 singers enjoyed a fun rehearsal/workshop in University Concert Hall, before performing
together, led by acclaimed conductor Bernie Sherlock, at the stunning Cliffs of Moher.
The Outdoor Chorus choir performed the classic Goodnight, Sweetheart, which was greatly enjoyed by both singers and spectators.
This was a unique opportunity for choirs and individual singers to work with one of Ireland's most renowned choral conductors, as well as to perform against the beautiful backdrop of the Cliffs!
AN EVENING OF CHOIRS IN CONCERT
SATURDAY 8TH JUNE, 8.30PM - REDEMPTORIST CHURCH, CITY CENTRE
This Saturday evening concert of the 2024 Limerick Sings Festival featured local and visiting choirs performing a diverse programme of sacred, traditional, gospel, and folk songs. All presented in the beautiful surrounds of Limerick City’s Redemptorist Church.
Performing Choirs
Knot Another Choir (UK)
Limerick Choral Union
New Dublin Voices
The Studio Singers (Co. Limerick)
Voices of Limerick
Presented by Lorcan Murray, RTÉ lyric FM
SUNDAY WAKE UP,SHAKE UP! Workshop
SUNDAY 9TH JUNE, 11.00AM - UNIVERSITY CONCERT HALL
Acclaimed UK choral conductor and vocal coach Craig Antony Lees led singers in an engaging variety of activities, including fun and interactive warm-ups and music that everyone enjoyed singing together. The focus was on fun, and this workshop got everyone feeling energised and focused for the rest of the day!
CHORAL TRAIL
SUNDAY 9TH JUNE, 1.30PM - MILFORD CARE CENTRE
Kingswood Community Choir (Co. Dublin)
Uproar Choir (Co. Tipperary)
Our visit to Milford Care Centre in Castletroy has become an annual favourite for choirs and residents, and the Festival was delighted to return again in 2024.
AFTERNOON PROMS CONCERT
SUNDAY 9TH JUNE, 4.30PM - ST JOHN’S CATHEDRAL
This delightful Afternoon Proms concert took place in the iconic St John’s Cathedral and featured a light choral programme performed by local and visiting choirs. Audiences were treated to everything from pop and folk to traditional and classical, such as Mozart’s Ave verum corpus, and Mia Makaroff’s Butterfly, along with beautiful arrangements of classics from Joni Mitchell and the Cranberries - the perfect Sunday afternoon of song to round off the 2024 Limerick Sings Festival!
Performing Choirs
Aoide Voices (Co. Limerick)
Kan an Odet (France)
Kingswood Community Choir (Co. Dublin)
Limerick Chamber Choir
Mary Immaculate College Community Choir (Co. Limerick)
Uproar Choir (Co. Tipperary)
Presented by Liz Nolan, RTÉ lyric FM
