I am delighted to be leading a Sing Out for Santa! on Friday, 25 November 2011. Please note the change of date from Friday, 18 November 2011 to Friday, 25 November 2011 due to an extreme weather warning. Please note that these are the revised and final details. On Friday, our Lord Mayor will light [...]

More than three school hundred children gathered and together performed Christmas carols as part of A Cork Christmas Celebration 2011. It was an amazing event and I had the pleasure of leading the festivities. The Christmas Season has well and truly begun!

This was certainly one of my favourites at this year’s International Youth in Concert which took place in Pécs, Hungary as part of their official calendar of events for Pécs 2010 European Capital of Culture. This unique international youth music festival saw the collaboration of ARTlifeCULTURE [IRELAND]; Béla Bartok Girl’s Choir [HUNGARY]; Carmena Slovenica [SLOVENIA]; EU-Japan [...]

Meet Irish International Youth at the Ireland Pavilion Shanghai EXPO 2010 in association with ARTlifeCULTURE, supported by Culture Ireland and the Ireland – EXPO 2010 project.

Roast chicken sandwiches on fresh white duck, traditional coffee cake replete with walnut trimmings, tea brack smothered in butter, and bite-sized vanilla viennese biscuits dipped in milk and dark chocolate. I have spent the better part of the day revisiting old recipes and discovered that for someone who can barely remember what I did this morning, food and its ritual, keeps my memories fresh and clear.

Today Eimear Hurley, a member of my Irish International Youth Choir, was one of three youth arts participants chosen by the National Youth Council of Ireland to present to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Tourism, Culture, Sport, Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs as part of the NYCI’s ‘Youth Arts Works’ Initiative. Today’s presentation was an opportunity for [...]

A collection of photo, video and written messages to the tsunami-effected peoples of Tohoku, Japan encouraging them to ‘Hang in There’. This collection forms part of the global collection which can be found at ganbare-tohoku.com

Surrounded by music friends, it is possible to forget to remember their talent. You live knowing that it is there but you can forget to see it. Julia Carrick née Canavan and I were introduced by our singing teachers some twenty five years ago at the Royal Irish Academy of Music on Westland Row in [...]

Sonya Keogh is an opera singer, voice coach, youth music worker, artistic director, cultural ambassador, and musicologist. Sonya made her operatic debut at Cork Opera House in 2000 and continues to enjoy a professional performance career as an opera singer, recitalist and recording artist. She began her sacred music training at Christ Church Cathedral as [...]