Ceremonial Music at Ballybeg

Pádraig D'Arcy: Tenor

Wedding singer Pádraig D'Arcy has had the pleasure of singing for many happy couples throughout Ireland. Having graduated from the Bull Alley Performance department Dublin in 2005, he decided to further his voice studies at Galway Voice Studio with Andres Martorell. It wasn't long after this that Pádraig started offering his services as a professional wedding singer.
Based in his beautiful native Wicklow, this Tenor from Tinahely regularly performs in concerts, church services and stage shows. He has played leading roles in some of the world's best loved musicals and operettas. He has performed in venues such as The National Concert Hall, The Mill Theatre Dublin, An Draíocht Dublin, Nevele Grande Hotel New York and Nun's Island Theatre Galway. He has received awards for many of his performances, perhaps the most notable national award being Best Male Singer presented by AIMS at the INEC Killarney in 2009.
Pádraig works with a wonderful professional piano accompanist. Additional musicians may be hired for your wedding ceremony as per your requirements. Pádraig believes in making the music selection process as easy as possible for you. He offers a rich variety of music for you to choose from and he welcomes any requests you may have. Whether you want traditional Church music, Celtic, Classical, Modern or a selection thereof - Pádraig will be delighted to help you plan your wedding music programme accordingly.
Contact: Pádraig on +353 (0)87 1232911.
Website: www.padraigdarcy.net

Colette Delahunt: Soprano

After graduating from DIT, Colette was awarded a scholarship to Trinity College of Music, London where she completed her studies. Colette worked internationally as a soloist with many opera companies including, English National Opera, Glyndebourne Opera, Aix en Provence and Royal Opera, Covent Garden. Also at home with Lyric Opera, Opera Ireland and Opera Theatre Company.
She has been the recipient of many awards and prizes including the Gervase Elwes Award, Young Glyndebourne Artist, BBC Recording Artist, Margaret Burke Sheridan and many more.
Now living in Ireland Colette continues to perform on the concert platform with RTE and the National Concert Hall, she also has a significant career organising and performing at weddings and services throughout the country.
Colette has vast experience in the setting of wedding selections, in co-ordinating with other musicians and providing an elite standard of music for each couple on their wedding day. Through consultation Colette will guide each couple in making their music selection, in choosing instrumentation and making sure that everything runs smoothly on their special day.
Contact:Colette on +353 (0)86 8244700.
Email: colettedelahunt@eircom.net

Jennifer Rochford: Soprano

Jennifer has been singing from a very early age and was privileged in 1995 to be accepted as a Chorister in the Christ Church Cathedral Girls Choir. The Choir performed weekly in the Cathedral and also visited many Cathedrals throughout Ireland including a trip to Belgium and several appearances on R.T.E. television. On graduating from the Girls Choir she was presented with the 'Dean's Chorister Award' by The Very Rev. John Patterson.
Jennifer has been a pupil of Ms. Patricia Mc Carry in the Bray Music School for many years, and has competed and been a prizewinner in many major competitions throughout Ireland including Feis Ceoil. Just recently, Jennifer performed in a leading role in the Opera 'Dido and Aeneas' at the Mermaid Theatre, Bray.
Jennifer is currently a member of the Bray Holy Redeemer Church Choir and will be travelling to Vienna in April 2006 to perform in several Churches and Cathedrals.

Repertoire for Weddings:
Pie Jesu
Ave Maria
Panis Angelicus
Psalm 23
Responses
O Perfect Love
Ag Criost an Siol
Prayer Perfect
Perhaps Love
And many more.

Would you like to enhance your church or blessing ceremony? We can recommend the voice of Jennifer.
Contact: +353 (0)86 4040412.

The Maynooth Gospel Choir

The Maynooth Gospel Choir has been entertaining Ireland since 2003. One of Ireland’s most exciting vocal harmony groups, the choir is perfectly equipped for any event. From beautiful ballads to high energy Gospel songs the range of the choir cannot be underestimated. Fresh from a hugely successful tour with Jack L, the choir are going from strength to strength. For further information:
Contact: Michael 087 9444810.
Email: info@maynoothgospel.com
Website: www.maynoothgospel.com

Madeleine Doherty: Celtic Harpist/Singer

Madeleine has played at wedding ceremonies and receptions a few times now and we very much like hearing her beautiful harp sound and angelic voice at Ballybeg. Her music and singing would be the perfect complement to a church ceremony.
Madeleine is a professional harpist/singer based in County Wicklow. She plays both Celtic and electro-acoustic concert harps. Madeleine performs at sacred ceremonies including weddings. She is available for corporate events and charity functions as a solo harpist/singer or in a duo with a percussionist. You can see video clips of her work on her website: www.madeleinedoherty.ie
Madeleine regularly plays at festivals and shows across Europe. She has toured worldwide including the US, and the Caribbean, bringing her unique style of composition, combined with loving energy to audiences of all ages. Her latest Irish project is an initiative called “Harps for Healing” which brings harpists in to hospitals to play for patients.
For further information:
Contact: Madeleine: +353 (0)86 2350878 or
Email: info@madeleinedoherty.ie

Dublin Gospel Choir

Not too many Irish acts, let alone international ones, can boast of sharing the stage with music industry heavyweights such as Rod Stewart, John Legend, James Brown, Damien Rice, and The Chieftains. But that is exactly what the Dublin Gospel Choir has achieved over the last few years.
From their modest beginnings as a local school choir in Dublin’s inner city 12 years ago, they have become a household name in Ireland, playing a host of concerts each year, plus a large number of corporate and charity events. Add to that their annual slot at Ireland’s internationally-acclaimed boutique festival Electric Picnic (at which they played on the Main Stage again in 2008) and a performance in front of 82,000 people at Croke Park in 2007, and you have a group of people who are really going places.
The choir also featured along with Chris de Burgh on a special BBC Songs of Praise programme which was broadcast to over 35million viewers worldwide. Whereas the religious audience is one target market for them, the Dublin Gospel Choir seems to have broad appeal. They collaborated with well-known Irish singer Paddy Casey for Today FM’s Even Better than the Real Thing CD and went on to tour with Paddy. This won them a much younger audience and one that remains a large part of their audience at shows right across Ireland. They were also invited by Rod Stewart to join him for two great nights at the RDS in Summer 07.
Apart from their Autumn/Winter Tour 08, the choir are currently working on material for their next studio album (scheduled for release in the first half of 2009) and will be releasing a single in October 08, as part of the Electric Picnic.
5-Year Anniversary Album.
So it’s business as usual for one of Ireland’s foremost
touring groups!
Website: www.dublingospelchoir.com

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