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Open Arts Community Choir:

E M膩lama -听Trad Hawaiian

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The Lourdes Pilgrimage Choir:

Salve Regina -听Missale Romanum

Ave Maria de Lourdes -听arr Jean-Paul L茅cot

O Sacrum Convivium -听Farrant

Tu Rex Gloria Christe -听Gounod

Concentio:

Evening Prayer -听Ola Gjeilo

Belfast Philharmonic Society:

Et Clamabant -听Sean Doherty

Va Pensiero (Nabucco) -听Verdi听 听 听 听 听 听 听

Songs Of The Fleet (excerpt)听-听Stanford

Northern Ireland Military Wives Choir:

Bring Him Home (les Mis茅rables)听-听Boublil, Sch枚nberg听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听Stronger Together听-听Geoff Lawson, Gareth Malone

The choir was formed over thirty years ago by its first director Mr Raymond Lennon and is now directed by Louis McVeigh with Colum McGarry as accompanist and Deputy Director. The initial purpose of establishing the choir was to accompany the newly established Diocesan Pilgrimage. The choir has developed and produced a vast repertoire of sacred music. It is this sacred, spiritual and often inspiring music that touches the hearts of those who travel to Lourdes each July and who are, very often, suffering with grave illnesses.

The choir accompanies every aspect of the journey of the sick pilgrims.

Many sick pilgrims who travel to Lourdes, along with a large team of volunteers from the medical profession, stay at the Hospital of Our Lady of Lourdes.听 The Down and Connor Choir even go to the hospital wards to sing for their pilgrims, many of whom spend much of their lives at home, housebound.听

Louis McVeigh is originally from the Ballymurphy Parish of Corpus Christi. He joined the parish children's choir at the age of eleven which sparked off a keen interest and love for liturgy and sacred music. By the age of eighteen Louis was made organist and Director of Music at Corpus Christi Parish and Assistant Organist at the renowned Church of the Most Holy Redeemer at Clonard Monastery, Belfast.

He studied theology at Queen's University Belfast and went on to Graduate from Queens with a Bachelor's Degree in Theology and a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of Ulster the following year.听

At the age of twenty-two Louis was appointed as Organist and Choir Director at St Patrick's R C Church in Lisburn. 听Around this time he was also invited to become the accompanist for the Down and Connor Diocesan Lourdes Pilgrimage Choir and became 听Director of Music for the Pilgrimage a few years later. In recent years Louis has overseen a massive organ rebuild and restoration programme at St Patrick's.

He hosted the renowned French organist, Jean Paul Lecot (Maitre de Chappelles at Lourdes) as he played at the official dedication ceremony along with many other distinguished, local musicians.