A Capella Night - 20th November 8pm
The audience are in for a treat as three wonderful groups come together to bring a concert full of fun, laughs and wonderful music. In the beautiful setting of St George’s Church on Church Street Balbriggan these three award-winning groups will each perform a short set in a one-act concert, with music from Sinatra to Traditional Irish and everything in between.
Please note that this is an indoor event, and in order to comply with current government requirements, all attendees must show a COVID vaccination or recent infection cert, and must wear a face-covering during the performance*
Lady Barbalade
Lady Barbalade are Irish Association of Barbershop Singers Female Quartet Champions. The four ladies, Rebecca Gilbert, Clare Hayes-Brady, Hilary Harnett and Ailbhe Hayes have been devoted to Barbershop singing and fabulous dresses since their formation in 2015. Made up of award winning chorus directors, and members and soloists from the multi-award winning Enchiriadis Chamber Choir, the girls have won prizes in Barbershop and Choral festivals both nationally and internationally. Lady Barbalade were honoured to be the first Irish quartet invited as guests to the Ladies Association of British Barbershop Singers convention in 2019, and the first Irish quartet to compete at Sweet Adelines. Lady Barbalade have toured with The Newfangled Four as part of their Gold Rush concert series in 2019, and look forward to welcoming world 5th place quartet, Midtown to Ireland in October 2021.
Blingmasters
Blingmasters is a female Barbershop Chorus based in North Dublin. It was founded in 2018 by Becky Gilbert of Lady Barbalade. The chorus is based on the foundational principles of good singing and fabulous dresses. Blingmasters were 2018 Irish Association of Barbershop Singers Female Chorus Champions, and winners of the trophy for highest performance score in 2019.
Cór Fingal
Cór Fingal was set up by former members of Enchiriadis Chamber Choir and Fingal Choral programme in order to continue and develop the tradition of choral music initiated by Dr Marion Doherty in 1988. Now, the choir is conducted by Eoin Conway and has since won various awards at different Choral Festivals.
In 2018, the singers brought home no less than two gold awards from the Mayo Choral Festival. The choir regularly organises social events and puts a big emphasis on being part of a vibrant community of adult singers, who want to challenge themselves musically.