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Music Matters
Inclusive Choir
Newsletter May 2013
Musical Director:Grinne OGrady
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Rehearsal Venue: MACRO Community Resource Centre, 1 Green St
(just off North King St),Dublin 7 (Every Wednesday from 7-9PM)
New singers and volunteers are always welcome to join us at any
time!
April was an exciting and action-packed month for Music Matters
Inclusive Choir!We marked our First Birthday last month with 2 Big
Events:
1. Our move to the MACRO Community Resource Centre on Wednesday
10th April2. Our First Birthday Celebration on Sunday 28th April,
which was marked with an
Afternoon of FUNdraising Events, which raised an amazing 500.
This will be used
towards the costs of inviting our friends in the Open Arts
Community Choir to travel fromBelfast to join us in Dublin for a
concert which will take place in the Autumn
Huge welcome to the new singers and volunteers who have joined
us over the past month!
We are also learning new songs: The Parting Glass, made famous
by The Clancy Brothersand Tommy Makem, spiritual hymns Amazing
Grace and Swing Low Sweet Chariot,To Where You Are by Josh Groban,
Change the World by Eric Clapton and Reach forthe Stars by
SClub7.
We have high hopes for the next year and many more successful
years to come!
Visit from Councillor Andrew Montague
On Wednesday 10th April, we had a very special guest visitor
Councillor Andrew Montague,former Lord Mayor of DublinAndrew had
previously heard us perform at the LiFT Youth Arts Festival Gala
Showcase at TheHelix, DCU, and he came along to our first rehearsal
at the MACRO Centre.Over the past year, everyone has learned many
skills which are important, such as warm-upexercises and correct
posture, and we all got certificates, which recognise the hard
work, whichwe have all put into our singing.
Andrew has decided to become our Choirs First Official
Ambassador. He will promote our choirand help us with some
fundraising activities. He really entertained us by playing guitar
andsinging The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel, and we finished
rehearsal with Rockin andRollin an all-time favourite!
Thank you to Lee for taking these beautiful
photos!Congratulations everyone! Music Matters is proud of all of
you!
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National Stroke Survivors Day
On Friday 26th April, our choir were invited to perform at the
first ever National Stroke SurvivorsDay. This event was organised
by the Irish Heart Foundation, and took place in the GibsonHotel,
beside the O2.National Stroke Survivors Day was a positive
opportunity for stroke survivors, and their friends,families and
carers to come together and share experiences. Singing is known to
help strokesurvivors to regain speech, concentration and memory
skills, as well as helping to reducestress. We are very keen to
hear from stroke survivors, their friends, families and carers.Many
people at the conference expressed their admiration for our choir
and were singing andclapping along!Thank you to everyone from our
choir, to Grace for adding the cute factor and to Corina fortaking
these wonderful photos!
The day ended with a very pleasant surprise, when some
eagle-eyed members of our choirspotted Simon, Lee and Antony from
boyband Blue at the other side of the room. They hadcome to Ireland
to promote their reunion tour. They were really nice guys and of
course, thankyou to Aine for asking them to pose for photos with
us!
First Birthday Celebrations!
Music Matters Inclusive Choir ended the month of April by
celebrating our First Birthday!On Sunday 28th April, we had an
Afternoon of FUNdraising Events in the MACRO Centre.There was a
cake sale, clothes stalls, arts & crafts stall, books &
games stall, mask makingclasses, face painting, Angel readings,
massages and musical entertainment.Huge thank you to Joyanne, who
made an exquisitely detailed and delicious cake to mark thespecial
occasion and to all our choir members, families, friends, and
volunteers who all helpedto make the day a resounding success!
Thank you to the staff at the MACRO Centre, for being
so wonderful and supportive, over the past month. We also
appreciate the time and talents sogenerously given by Rima
Malukaite, our Official Choir Photographer!
