ONE of the Southside’s more unique musical acts will be taking to the stage at this year’s Mountains to the Sea Festival in Dun Laoghaire.
The children’s choir, The SuperTones, have been invited to sing at the popular festival that will be taking place from September 3 – 8.
The local choir, which is made up of 40 boys and girls from the area, will be performing at two of the festival events.
They will sing at the
‘Picture Book Picnic: Animal Madness’ with Gabriel Rosenstock and Chris Judge in the People’s Park on Sunday, September 8 from 11.30am to 12.15pm.
They will perform again that afternoon at 2.30pm in the County Hall at
‘The Dahl Factor: Mischief and Mayhem’, when a team of writers, comics and actors will present their favourite Roald Dahl story or poem to a panel of Dahl experts.
The SuperTones were created by David Brophy, the principal conductor of the RTE Concert Orchestra and music director of Dun Laoghaire Choral Society.
Founded in 2011 as the children’s choir of Dun Laoghaire Choral Society and with funding from the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, The SuperTones rehearse weekly at the Grainstore in Cabinteely.
Their repertoire ranges from music from films and musicals to classical works and traditional Irish music. Their most recent performance was a sell-out concert with Emmet Cahill of Celtic Thunder fame and musicians Joe Csibi, Guy Rickarby and David Brophy at the Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire in May of this year.
They will be just one of the highlights of this year’s packed festival which features the usual eclectic collection of acts, speakers, writers and stars.
On Tuesday, September 3 the festival is welcoming Pat Kenny to the atmospheric surroundings of the Maritime Museum where the programme will include interviews with a number of the festival’s visiting writers.
A limited number of tickets will be available and can be applied for by emailing info@ artscope.ie
Later that afternoon, Sunday Miscellany will be bringing the charming atmosphere of Sunday morning alive to the Pavilion Theatre.
Expect to hear some of the festival’s participants along with some Dún Laoghaire favourites in this mix of new writing and live music.
On Wednesday, September 4 Derek Landy, author of the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant books, will be making his fifth consecutive festival appearance.
Derek will be unveiling the eighth installment in the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in
‘Last Stand of Dead Men’.
Featuring special guest appearances from Donegan Bane and Gracious O’Callaghan (as seen in The Maleficent Seven), this event promises to be something special for Skulduggery Pleasant fans old and new.
This takes place in the Pavilion Theatre from 4.30pm – 5.30pm.
On Thursday, September 5 Ronan Fanning, professor Emeritus of Modern History at University College Dublin, will be giving a talk on his book
‘Fatal Path: British Government and Irish Revolution 1910-1922’.
This is a narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history, a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and causing civil war in the United Kingdom.
It was also the decade of the cataclysmic Great War, of an officers’ mutiny in an elite cavalry regiment of the British Army and of Irish armed rebellion.
It was a time, argues Fanning, when violence and the threat of violence trumped democratic politics.
Fanning’s books include the definitive history of the Irish Department of Finance and a biography of Eliza Lynch.
This takes place in the Maritime Museum from 6.30pm.
For more details see www.mountainstosea.ie