Cantairí Avondale is an accomplished SATB choir that was first established in 1970. The choir performs an eclectic mix of music, both sacred and secular, with the emphasis on a-cappella, oratorio, early music and contemporary commissions.
CHRISTMAS CONCERT 2023
On Friday 8th December, 2023, We joined Skerries Sea Sharps and soloist Callum Jeacle, in St Patrick’s Church, Skerries for an evening of Christmas Choral Music. This was a first performance with our newly appointed musical director, Naoise Whearity. The programme included such highlights as O Jesulein Suss, Bethlehem Down, Bogoroditse Dyevo, In the Bleak Midwinter and In Stiller Nacht as well as many well-loved favourites.
ANNIVERSARY CONCERT 2023
Our fabulous anniversary concert celebrating 50-plus years of making music together took place on 28th May 2023 in the iconic Pepper Canister Church, Mount Street Crescent, Dublin 2. Under the direction of our musical director, John Doyle, with the wonderful soloists Aisling Kenny and Raphaela Mangan, the choir performed the Pergolesi Stabat Mater, the Vivaldi Gloria and Bach’s Ich lasse dich nicht. We had a full house to enjoy this wonderful night and programme of music.
culture night 2022
For Culture Night 2022 we gave three performances of the same programme in the National Library. We performed a 30 minute programme of music selected to reflect the importance of the music and poetry collections held in the National Library of Ireland, and with reference to the National Library's Poet in Residence initiative. Each piece performed was a setting of a poem by a celebrated poet and was preceded by a reading of the poem. We performed settings of the poetry of Yeats, Kavanagh, Coleridge, Bridge, and Rückert.
join us
If you like singing and you are looking for a new hobby or if you have been in a choir before and you are thinking about a return to choral singing, we would love to hear from you.
Please get in touch by emailing us at cantairiavondale@gmail.com to arrange an audition.
