THE SECOND Annual Junior Orchestra Festival will take place in the Lady Gregory Hotel, Gort, on Sunday at 3pm.
This year’s festival will host children from the Sligo Academy of Music Junior Orchestra, Clare Music Makers Intermediate Orchestra, Galway Junior Youth Orchestra, Athenry Chamber Ensemble, St Mary’s Parish Junior Choir, and Gort’s own Coole Junior Orchestra.
In total more than 170 children will take part in the event. The highlight will be when all the children perform the finale together. This year’s finale is Berlin Bear, which was commissioned especially for the festival and is composed by Katharina Baker, the director of Coole Music.
The festival was recently distinguished at the National Concert Hall in Dublin when it was awarded a Special Achievement Award by the Irish Association of Youth Orchestras.
Admission is free for children and €5 for adults. For more details contact 086 - 3467245, [email protected], or go to www.coole-music.com
