Music Matters Inclusive Choir Newsletter March 2013

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Rehearsal Venue: NLBI, 21 Hill St, Dublin 1 (Wednesday evenings, 7-9 PM) Music Matters has lots of interesting volunteering opportunities; including support workers, administration assistants, accounting assistants, fundraising assistants, film makers, social media and public relations, and a volunteer manager. Please visit our blog for more info: http://musicmatterschoir.blogspot.ie/2013/01/volunteering-and-internship.html

February was an interesting and eventful month for Music Matters Inclusive Choir! The highlight of our month was a visit from Kathleen Lynch, TD, who is the Minister for Disability, Equality, Older People and Mental Health. She came to our rehearsal on Wednesday 13th February, and what an exciting night it was! Well done to Denise, Willie and Dominic for presenting gifts to Minister Lynch. Congratulations to Aine for her beautiful violin solo you all did us proud!

We all put on a fantastic performance for Minister Lynch, and as the pictures show, she was really impressed with our choir! She even clapped along to This Little Light of Mine! We are all delighted that Rima Malukaite, our Official Choir Photographer, could come along and share her time and wonderful photography skills!

Music Matters at LiFT Youth Arts Festival Music Matters is delighted to announce that we are running an exciting series of vocal workshops and an integrated choir for young people, with and without disabilities, who are aged 17-30, over the next few weeks! Rehearsals will take place every Friday in the Axis Theatre, Ballymun from 5-6.30 PM. The first rehearsal already took place on Friday 1st March. The choir will learn 2 songs: This is Love by will.i.am and Shine Bright like a Diamond by Rihanna

This Youth Choir will perform at the LiFT Youth Arts Festival, which will take place in Ballymun from the 20th-27th March 2013. For one full week, the streets and venues of Ballymun will be hopping as young people showcase and experience the very best of youth arts! The Youth Choir will perform in The Helix, one of the best-known theatres in Ireland, where the RTE talent show The Voice is recorded. This concert will take place on Wednesday 27th or Thursday 28th March (exact date and time to be confirmed). Choir Photo Shoot These photos were all taken by Rima on Wednesday 13 th February: