Navan Choral Festival
Dolce will compete in the Adult Choirs Competition and also in the Choir of the Year Competition in Navan on 12th May 2019. Details of the Navan Choral festival can be found here: Navan Choral Festival
Competition Awards
Dolce was awarded 1st place in the Clontarf Choral Competition on Sunday 3rd March and 2nd place in the Limerick Choral Festival on Saturday 2nd March. These awards are testament to the dedication of Deirdre in bringing the choir to this standard of excellence. The next competition in which Dolce will perform will be in…
Dolce Spring Term
Dolce resume rehearsals on January 10th and will be concentrating on pieces for competitions in March and May. Dolce will compete in Limerick, Clontarf and Navan. Further details will follow.
Auditioning…
Over the past few days I’ve had a myriad of people come to sing for me in the hope of being able to join Dolce. The standard of those singers was very high, and unfortunately I had to turn away some superb singers, such is the demand for places in Dolce. We now have 81…
Thank You for the Music Concert – 22nd May 2018
Dolce’s final performance of our Choral year will take place on Tuesday 22nd May at 7pm in St Gabriel’s Church, Clontarf. Dolce will be joined on the night by the Cameron singers and the Raheny Folk Group. So for a great night of music, come along and join us. Admission is free.
Looking Back at 2016
Well, well, well…2016 may have been a disaster for some, (think Trump, Brexit, Mayo losing again, Kilkenny losing this once..how shameful!!), but for Dolce it was another year of success after success: a VERY busy year of fine performances, laced with lots of fun. It was, of course, the year of the 1916 Centenary, and…
What new members say
In late August of 2016 I joined the Tenor line of Dolce. On the day of my audition I got caught up in chaotic traffic and barely made it on time. At the time I was thinking how bad it would look to turn up late, so I ran like mad. As it turned out…
Trains, Boats and Planes
Alles in Ordnung! The advance party made its way to the Departure Gate on Thursday morning 14th October 2016. Many months of preparation had gone into this trip and now we prepared to board the plane for Cologne/Bonn Airport to start an adventure on German soil. The memory of the last trip to Bilbao two…
Dolce and the Easter Rising
I found history to be boring while I was in school. I learnt about the Rising as an important historical event that happened way before my time and secured Irish independence. The details were unclear, but we got the result we wanted in the end. That was all that mattered to me then. Since Dolce’s…
Looking Back at 2015
Well well…the years just seem to get busier and busier…and better and better! We kicked off 2015 in February with a joint concert in Newbridge with the Newbridge Gospel Choir in aid of a local charity. Both choirs produced great performances in their distinctly different styles (the Newbridge choir was backed by a Rock…