Gloria’s Outreach Choir: Sing Out!
We want you to sing with us at our summer concert in the National Concert Hall on Saturday June 15th. Take part in our Outreach choir! It will be great fun! The Outreach Choir is for anyone who wants to sing. No previous experience needed! With Choral Confusion from Cork, Dublin’s Gay Men’s Chorus and Quire from Belfast, the Outreach Choir will join Glória, DLGC in the concert finale. Together we will be over 200 singers! The rest of the evening you will be enjoying the full concert from the seats in the choir balcony.To prepare for this fantastic event we are holidng a music workshop on Saturday 25th May from 2pm to 6pm in Neilstown Churcn, near Liffey Valley Shopping Centre. Please click here to read more.
Summer Concert: Saturday June 15th, The National Concert Hall! Come along to our big 18th birthday concert! We’ll be joined by lgbt choirs and choruses from all around the island! Click here for more details.
We are on the move! Choo Choo!
We were delighted to have been announced as the very first winners of Irish Rail and RTE Radio One Mooney Show “Journey’s on Us” competition. We were delighted to have been asked to sing for commuters while they waited for their trains at Dublin’s Heuston Station on Monday 29th April. Brenda Donohoe from the Mooney Show captured the atmosphere in the station while we serenaded passers by with some forthcoming songs from our summer concert. We will be using this opportunity to take continue with our outreach work, so look out for us soon as the end of a train line! We were delighted with the kind comments of passers by and received some lovely messages of support on Facebook and Twitter afterwards from people who had never heard us before.
Joining Glória
We are currently not looking for any new singing members. Please email us though and let us know if you’d like to be called for audition for our 2013 autumn/winter season. Email info@gloria.e to be included on our call for audition list.
You don’t need to sing to keep Glória’s 5th Section in harmony!
We’re looking for energetic, dedicated and creative thinking volunteers to join our 5th section – a dynamic non-singing volunteer group who assist us in the lead up to performances and with vital behind the scene services. We are looking for people with skills or experience in hospitality, photography, graphic design, marketing, the music industry, IT and fashion design. Please email info@gloria.ie We’d be very grateful to have your talents!
Our new CD “Classical Glória“
We are delighted to bring you an album of classical favourites,spanning 5 centuries of choral composition, ranging from 17th. century England to 20th. century Russia, by way of the Italian Baroque, French romanticism, and music from the Orthodox Russian church tradition. Also included are some choral standards of the repertoire as well as some interesting backwaters and side-streets. The album is available to purchase from Celtic Note, Itunes and from our online shop
We are very foruntate in Glória to have many supporters who share our artistic vision and our passion for supporting events in the community and creating a positive image of the lgbt community. The support we receive from our Friends helps us to support many good causes around the country and we are very grateful for that.
Glória (the award-winning choir based in Dublin, Ireland) is a charity, but we also sing and raise money for other charities. These have included BeLonG To, GCN Forever, One in Four, The Bonemarrow Trust for Leukaemia, Mental Health Ireland, , Peter McVerry Trust, Harolds Cross Hospice and Temple Street Hospital. To read further about the charities and groups we have supported over the years click here. Looking further into the future we are very excited about Dublin being the chosen city to host the European LGBT choral festival “Various Voices” in 2014, bringing thousands of singers together to what promises to be a fantastic event.
In 2012 we were in Belfast with the London Gay Mens Chorus, sang for Marriage Equality in Cork and Dublin, performed in London, were on RTE’s Instrumental, ILGA/GLEN conference, Guide Clinic St James Hospital, Dublin City Council – Aids Day, Mental health Ireland and our Kids party. In the lead up to our concert in St Patrick’s Cathedral ,we were on the Craig Doyle Tv Show, The Mooney Radio Show and featured in most national newspapers.
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