Friday 7 May 2021

Northern Ireland Opera launches second series of Northern Songs

Northern Songs - filming Andrew Irwin in Marble Arch Caves - Northern Ireland Opera
Northern Songs - filming Andrew Irwin in Marble Arch Caves - Northern Ireland Opera

Northern Ireland Opera is launching a second series of Northern Songs, films of songs by composers from across the island of Ireland, performed in some of Northern Ireland’s most beautiful and historic locations. For the new series, sopranos Catherine Donnelly and Susie Gibbons, mezzo-soprano Margaret Bridge, tenors John Porter and Andrew Irwin and bass baritone David Howes, all winners or finalists of the company's annual Glenarm Festival of Voice, will perform a mix of art songs and contemporary songs in iconic locations, Enniskillen Castle, Marble Arch Caves, Ballintoy Harbour, the OM Dark Sky Park, Beaghmore Stone Circles, the Ulster American Folk Park, Armagh Robinson Library, the Armagh Cider Company and Belfast’s Maritime Mile.

You can watch series 2 of Northern Songs each Thursday at 8pm from 13 May on the company's YouTube channel; the first film features Catherine Donnelly and Margaret Bridge singing A River Runs Beneath Us by Duke Special and Andrew Doyle, on the Maritime Mile and Titanic Slipways in Belfast. 

Series 1 of Northern Songs is still available on YouTube and on the Northern Ireland Opera website, and was shared as part of the NI Bureau in Washington’s official St Patrick’s Day event, and at the recent NI Expo event for North America.

Further details of series 2 from the Northern Ireland Opera website.

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