Music Matters Inclusive Community Choirs Newsletter May 2015

Benefit Concert for Music Matters Music Matters is hosting a Benefit Concert in the beautiful and historic surroundings of the Dublin Unitarian Church, St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2 Sunday 17th May, 2.00 - 5.00 PM We have a fantastic line-up - guaranteed to provide an afternoon of toe-tapping entertainment! The High Hopes Choir (as seen on RTE 1) Newpark Senior Tours Orchestra The Flukey Ukes Ossia Youth Choir Mariachi San Patricio And Soloists from Music Matters Tickets: 12 each or Family Tickets: 25 All tickets include one free raffle entry As part of the Bealtaine Festival, which celebrates older people in our community - we are encouraging people to bring an older person along for a bargain OAP ticket price of 10so invite your granny, grandad, neighbour, along to this great gig! All proceeds raised will benefit Music Matters Inclusive Community Choirs. Our many choral projects support people with and without disabilities, those from various cultural, social and economic backgrounds, older people and those with dementia and members of the LGBT community

New Choir for older people and those with dementia

Dublin City Council and St Agnes Community Centre for Music & the Arts are delighted to

announce the creation of a new community choir open to those living in the Dublin 12 area

This fun choir will run for 16 weeks initially and is for older people, with a particular welcome for

people with dementia or memory loss, their family members, neighbours or friends. The choir

will be directed by Grinne OGrady

First Rehearsal: Wednesday 13th May If you would like to join, or for more info; Please phone

Miriam or Tom at Dublin City Council, Crumlin Area Office, (01) 222 5504

Places in the choir are limited. Please register if you want to get involved

Table Quiz Thank You for your support On Thursday 16th April, Music Matters had our first ever Table Quiz at The Black Sheep, Capel St, Dublin 1

Our Quiz-Master for the evening was Dave Flood, who joined us as Assistant Musical Director, 4 months ago. Dave is also Musical Director of Fingal Gospel Choir some of their members took part in the quiz. We were also delighted to have so many of our members, their families, our volunteers, our friends and supporters coming along we got a full house!

We would like to thank all our sponsors: Petermark, TGI Fridays, Hard Rock Caf, Powerscourt Waterfall, Lambert Puppet Theatre and The Carphone Warehouse for sponsoring such fabulous prizes. Thank you to our volunteers Lorraine and Grinne for getting these prizes. Thanks a million to Dave for being a fantastic super enthusiastic quiz master tonight, for Elaine for all her usual wonders with admin & social media, to Sabrina our brilliant super friendly jack-of-all-trades volunteer and to the talented, committed Rachel Gallen for her wonderful work on our new website & for her photography skills!

Thank you to everyone who took part on the night and all who made donations we raised an incredible 750

New Transgender Community Choir The first rehearsal for our new Transgender Community Choir recently took place at Dublin City University. We would like to thank Dr Mel Duffy and Dr Briege Casey, from DCU School of Nursing & Human Sciences, for their invaluable support and facilitating the development of this choir believed to be the first of its kind in Europe New members are welcome to join at any time NO previous musical experience or audition necessary! For more info: Email mel.duffy@dcu.ie or grainne@musicmatters.ie

Singing Amach Grinne OGrady has been working with Running Amach LGBTQ womens social networking club to develop a new choir called Singing Amach Their first rehearsal took place recently for more info about this choir, visit the Running Amach meetup.com event page: http://www.meetup.com/Dublin-LGBTQ-Womens-Social-Networking-Club/

Training Event Take Note: Working with the Aging Voice & People with

dementia, through Singing & Choirs This event has been organised and is proudly supported by the partners involved in the Musical Memories choirs: Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council Arts & Health Promotion, Health Service Executive, Living Well with Dementia Project and Music Matters. WHERE: Lexicon Library, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin WHEN: Monday May 25th 2015, 10.00 AM - 4.00 PM, Please arrive by 9.30 AM to register Price: 80 (payable on day of event: 40 deposit required to secure place) Please note this event is open to professional musical directors & musicians/ teachers only Training Facilitator & Co-ordinator: Grinne O'Grady Guest Training Facilitators:

Catherine Daly, Occupational Therapist

ilis Hession, Manager of Services for older people, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown HSE, Lead for Living Well with Dementia Project

For more info, or to register Please Contact Grinne O'Grady Email: grainne@musicmatters.ie or Phone: 087-980 3020 http://musicmatterschoir.blogspot.com/2015/05/training-event-take-note-working-with.html