Popular support concert for South Tipperary Hospice Movement makes a welcome return
Movies & Musicals
A popular fundraiser for the South Tipperary Hospice Movement is to make a welcome return.
The annual concert was always a feature on the social calendar prior to COVID-19 and is now making a return.
A Movies & Musicals show will take place on Friday, November 1 at Hotel Minella which has staged some memorable concerts for the Hospice over the years.
The concert will feature the Clonmel Concert Band with special guests Andrea Ruth, Emmet Donlan and Sinead O’Donovan and the compere will be Niall Carroll from Lyric FM.
Among the performers on the night will be Sinead O'Donovan.
Sinead is from Fethard and graduated from the Cork School of Music with a First Class Honours degree in both BA Popular Music and MA Vocal Performance. As a session vocalist, Sinead records backing vocals for the Olympia and Helix pantomimes annually. Sinead regularly performs with function bands and is an established wedding singer. Sinead has performed with numerous musical societies including St Mary’s Choral Society in Clonmel.
She has also performed as a soloist in the National Concert Hall under the musical direction of David Hayes in Legends of Swing and in the Bord Gais Energy Theatre in West Side Story in Concert.
In March 2022 Sinead was the soloist in the Broadway Babes concert, also under the musical direction of David Hayes as part of the Finding a Voice Festival. She was a part of the original cast of Find Your Way Home, an Irish musical that premiered in the States in 2017.
She also features on Inside Westside, an upcoming album exploring the music of West Side Story. She also performed in Angela’s Ashes the Musical at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre. As well as her love for performing, Sinead is passionate about vocal education and is a BAST-certified vocal coach teaching in Voiceworks Studios in Cork.