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29.05.2012

Saint Bartholomew’s Girls Choir to Visit Killiskey Church

The girls and gentlemen of Saint Bartholomew’s Church Choir, Dublin, together with their Director of Music, Tristan Russcher, visit Nuns Cross Church, Killiskey, Ashford, on Sunday June 17 to sing a traditional Service of Choral Evensong at 7.30 pm.

Girls Choir
Girls Choir
The Service of Choral Evensong dates back to the Book of Common Prayer (1662) and is used daily in Anglican Cathedral Churches worldwide. The tradition of singing the daily office is maintained here in Ireland in Cathedrals in Dublin, Cork and Belfast.
 
The service in Killiskey Church has been organised by Canon John Clarke and the Revd Ken Rue as part of the preparation for the Confirmation group who are due to be confirmed by the Archbishop later this year.
 
The music for the service will include some well known congregational hymns, a setting of the Evening Canticles by Irish born composer, Charles Villiers Stanford, and an anthem by Baroque composer and sometime organist of Westminster Abbey, Henry Purcell.
 
The girls and gentlemen of Saint Bartholomew’s Choir have performed in Cathedrals in Dublin, Armagh, Kilkenny, Cashel and Cork as well as visiting St Mark’s Cathedral in Venice for a concert tour in 2009. Their CD “ And the house was filled with smoke “ recorded in December 2011 will be available for sale after the service.
 
This will be the second occasion that a Choir from Saint Bartholomew’s Church will have visited Killiskey Church. On a previous occasion the boys and gentlemen performed a concert in aid of the Church Restoration Fund in May 2002.

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