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Dublin Pride Festival –
Dublin
The Pride Parade will start
at the Garden Of Remembrance on Saturday the 29th Of June 2013. see, ROUTE
Assembly at 12pm and moving
off at 2pm sharp
This year’s Dublin Pride
festival celebrates a series of significant milestones for Ireland’s LGBT
movement. It is the 40th anniversary of Irish Gay Movement’s founding, the 30th
anniversary of Dublin Pride and the 20th anniversary of the decriminalisation
of homosexuality in Ireland.
The festival will include a
variety of conferences, plays and social events running over the next week. The
festival’s highlight is the pride parade, which will take place next Saturday,
kicking off at the Garden of Remembrance at about 12pm. Full ticket information
is available on the pride website.
With just over a week to go
to a Summer Serenade with the Dublin Gay Men’s Chorus, preparations are truly
hotting up. Its first summer concert coincides with the annual Dublin Pride
Festival and will take place in the inspiring surroundings of the chq building
in Dublin’s IFSC on Sunday June 23 at 4pm. The chorus, Ireland’s only all-male
gay choir, is the newest addition to the country’s LGBT choir fraternity having
launched exactly one year ago. The Summer Serenade is completely free and a
great way for all the family to spend a leisurely – and, it is hoped, a sunny –
Sunday afternoon.
The chorus currently numbers
30 and it has been engaging in intensive weekly rehearsals for the concert
since January of this year. David O’Shea is the chorus’s musical director: “We
have been steadily building up our repertoire since our very successful
Christmas concerts last December, and our performance on June 23 will include a
wide variety of music, featuring popular songs, jazz standards, classical
pieces, film music and all sorts in between —everything from Wagner to the
Script.”
Barry Joyce, director of the
chorus adds: “One year on and we are getting into our stride. There’s a great
buzz both in and around the chorus and we are very excited to bring a new fresh
and fun approach to choral singing. Our Summer Serenade concert promises to be
light, bright and fun.”
Amongst the songs to feature
in the varied repertoire are:
Shine – Take That
Lullabye – Billy Joel
You make me feel so young –
Josef Myrow
Summertime – George
Gershwin, Dubose and Dorothy Heyward, Ira Gershwin
There is nothin’ like a dame
– Richard Rodgers
The chorus will also be
performing at Gloria’s 18th birthday concert celebration in the National
Concert Hall on Saturday June 15 and at Various Voices, a multi-national LGBT
choral event taking place in Dublin in June 2014.
