Dingle’s latest festival will be music to the ears

THOSE with a love of choral music are in for a treat at the first Dingle Summer Music Festival, which will be held this weekend.

A cornucopia festival of choral and orchestral music held over three days, the inaugural festival will bring the award-winning Opus 96 choir and Cór Fear na nDéise from Waterford to West Kerry.

The weekend, the brain child of Dingle New Music Choir and Orchestra choirmaster Gabor Péli, orignated two years ago. Speaking to the Kerryman Gabor said his reasons for starting the festival were educational as well as creating a festival dedicated to classical music.

Amongst the festival’s 10 events is a lecture entitled ‘Fuaimeanna na Gaeilge’ by Criostóir Ó Loingsigh. 2018 winner of the Seán Ó Riada Composition Competition. Criostór, will present an informal talk providing a technical description of the sounds of Irish as spoken by native speakers and on the difficulties that learners and singers of the language face in acquiring native pronunciation. The talk will be as Gaeilge with simultaneous translation to English.

8pm, Dingle New Music Choir and Orchestra, An Díseart. Ttickets €10

Friday, 25th May: Saturday, May 26

1pm: Opening of the Festival with music and poetry, An Díseart. 3pm: Cór Fear na nDéise, An Díseart. 5pm: Cór Fear na nDéise, Session, Neligan’s Bar.

8pm: Dingle New-Music Choir and Orchestra, will sing at Mass in St Mary’s Church, Dingle 9pm: Cór Fear na nDéise, Session, O’Flaherty’s Bar, Dingle

Sunday May 27

11.15am, Cór Dhuibhne, Aifreann craolta beo ar Raidió na Gaeltachta, Seipéal na Carraige.

11.30am: Cór Fear na nDéise will sing at mass, St Mary’s Church, Dingle.

1pm: Criostóir Ó Loingsigh, Fuaimeanna na Gaeilge, Lecture, An Díseart, €5

4pm: Opus 96 Choir, ‘Coast to Coast’ Concert, An Díseart, € 10

Tickets can be purchased at the door, or at Grogan’s Pharmacy or Grey’s Lane Bistro.