Diocesan News
Virtual choir records carols and anthems for parishes to Use this Christmas
Available to all parishes in the Church of Ireland
A special Covid–era Christmas collaboration has seen over 100 singers from almost 20 church choirs gather virtually to record a Service of Nine Lessons and Carols. With a bidding prayer given by the Archbishop of Dublin and concluding with a blessing from the Archbishop of Armagh, the service will provide a wonderful resource for parishes this year when restrictions mean that most carol services cannot take place physically.
The full Carol Service will be available soon on the Dublin & Glendalough YouTube channel here (subscribe to the channel to receive alerts when the video is posted). In the meantime, the sound files of the carols and two anthems are available for parishes to download to use in their physical Christmas services where singing cannot take place, or in their virtual services online.
Conducted by Tom Maxwell, Director of Music in St Brigid’s Church in Stillorgan, with organist David Adams, the recordings can be downloaded from the Church Music Dublin website here.
Singers are drawn from parishes including: Killiskey Parish Nun’s Cross; St Patrick’s Church, Powerscourt; Rathfarnham Parish Choir; St Brigid’s Church, Castleknock; Sandford Parish and St Philip’s Milltown; Monkstown Parish Church; Taney Parish; Culwick Choral Society; St David’s Church, Naas; Wicklow Parish Church; St Paul’s Glenageary; Mullagh Parish, Cavan; Patrickswell/Ballybrown Parish, Limerick; St Mark’s Church, Dundela; St Patrick’s Church, Dalkey; St Brigid’s Parish, Stillorgan; All Saint’s, Blackrock; and St Swithen’s, Magherafelt.
The project was supported by the Revd Jack Kinkead, chair of Church Music Dublin.
For further information please contact:
Diocesan Communications Officer, Dublin & Glendalough
087 235 6472
Mrs Lynn Glanville
dcodublin@gmail.com