Members Directory

Our repertoire varies from Light, Popular, and Jazz, to Contemporary Choral works, Sacred Music, Songs from the Shows, Competition pieces, and a wonderful Christmas repertoire.

Our choir has performed at European Festivals in Vienna, Nice, Rome, Lake Garda, and Amsterdam. We have performed in the Royal Albert Hall in London, and our own National Concert Hall in Dublin.

If you would like to make new friends, improve your health, and have fun with this great bunch of singers contact us.

Rehearsals in Douglas on Tuesday evenings 7 – 9 pm

Bantry Community Choir strives to serve the community of Bantry and the wider community of West Cork through quality choral music performances. It promotes an inclusive environment of shared musical experience through it’s ethos of community, social interaction and participation for all.

The Choir loves to collaborate - this includes singing with John Spillane & the Claddagh Rogues as part of the nationwide First Fortnight festival. The choir has participated in the first West Cork Chamber Fringe Festival, performed alongside nine other choirs at the annual Celebration of Health Service Choirs and collaborated with Gamelan Spréacha Geala for the Skibbereen Arts Festival in 2017. The Choir love perform all round their native Bantry including for Culture Night and their annual Live Life and Sing concert.

Our aim is to be serious about our music, but to have fun at the same time. We are a sociable group, and in addition to singing in a formal setting, we equally enjoy getting together in informal settings for the odd session. Our musical directions are; songs from musicals, popular / contemporary and a little gospel. However, we are open-minded, and will go where the music takes us. If you are in the East Cork/West Waterford Area and are interested in joining us, email us with your contact details and we will get in touch.

The choir has travelled extensively to music festivals throughout Europe including multiple visits to the UK, France, Italy, Greece, Austria, Poland and Spain where we performed at the Costa Barcelona festival in May 2023.

We rehearse from 7.20 to 9.20pm every Wednesday night at Ballincollig Community School, P31 E030.

We welcome new members in all ladies’ and men’s lines, without formal audition. Ability to read music is not essential, we just need singers who can hold a tune and blend into the overall sound.

Joining at this time of year is ideal as we begin to learn new music.

The choir performs at local and charity concerts, as well as in various choral festival competitions around Ireland. Cantate had a spectacular trio of wins in 2018 comprising of first place trophies from Feis Maitiu Corcaigh, Feile an tSamhraidh and AIMS Choral Festival in New Ross. Cantate also performs regularly at weddings and corporate events.
If you would like Cantate to sing at your wedding or corporate/charity event please
contact cantatesecretary@gmail.com. Applications for membership can also be made
via this email address.

Today, the Carrigaline Singers are delighted to have Alan Carney as their Musical Director. Alan is a native of Cobh and has played instruments and been a member of choirs from an early age. He studied music in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. He has performed and conducted at festivals and events around Ireland and Europe. As well as choral and concert work, Alan is an accomplished pianist, organist, and singer.

Having shared the stage with wonderful acts over the years, such international opera star Russell Watson, American piano virtuoso David Syme, Cork’s own Americana folk troubadours, The White Horse Guitar Club, the wonderful Singing Men of Arkansas, James Kilbane and Amanda Neri to name but a few, the choir have enjoyed some memorable performances around the country and further afield, on stages that included Cork Opera House, University Concert Hall Limerick, St. Martins Basilica & Church of St. Nicolas in Prague, The Everyman Palace, the historical Fota House, Cork City Gaol, the Basilica in Fatima and many more venues to sell out audiences.