30th September 2022
Tickets are now fully booked for the annual Lord Mayor’s Community & Heritage Concert which will take place this Saturday in the Concert Hall. But don’t worry if you aren’t one of the lucky ones with a ticket as the event will be live streamed on the night.Just log on to the Cork City Council’s YouTube channel from 7.30pm to see some of the amazing acts perform in what is the grandest venue in town.
The Concert will feature talented community music groups such as the Barrack Street Band, the Voices of Cork Choir along with well-known singers Linda Kenny and Art Supple, amongst others. The event has entertained thousands of Corkonians since being established in 2010.
Lord Mayor Cllr. Deirdre Forde said: “It is a privilege to be officiating at this year’s Lord Mayor’s Community & Heritage Concert showcasing Cork’s history, culture, and heritage. This concert epitomises social inclusion and community participation at work in the city. It is fitting this year’s concert has a special piece of culture and heritage from Ukraine and exhibits our solidarity with Ukraine again as part of it. This will be a very entertaining evening, showcasing the best-in-class talent that Cork and Ukraine have to offer”.
As an act of solidarity with our newly arrived Ukrainian friends now living in the city, this year’s event will also feature a Ukrainian Folk Song and Dance element to it with performances from Nina Yelenchuk and many others.
The annual concert celebrating Cork’s history, culture and heritageis organised by a voluntary committee comprised of members of the Cork Lions Club, Teresa Dineen, Concert Producer Billy O’ Callaghan, (Barrack Street Band and Cork Academy of Music), Cork historian Richard T. Cooke and Committee Chair, former Lord Mayor of Cork, Mr. Brian Bermingham, Pat O’ Brien Cork Lions Club, with special recognition for Donal Horgan, who has retired from the committee and who had served this concert so well since its inception, and Kieran O’ Connell from Cork City Council’s Social Inclusion Section, who also played a key role in organising the event.
Covid-19 impacted on this concert over the past number of years, but the organising Committee and Cork City Council are delighted the event will once again be held in City Hall at 7.30p.m. on Saturday 1st of October 2022.
