Details of 35th Navan Choral Festival announced

Entries are sought for the 35th anniversary Navan Choral Festival, which takes place from Thursday 8th May to Sunday 11th May next in three venues – Newgrange Hotel, St Mary’s Church of Ireland, Navan, and Simonstown Gaels GFC Clubhouse. Closing date for entries is 31st March.
The festival has seen a huge increase in entries in recent years and some 60 choirs are expected to take part comprising of some 1,600 competitors battling it out for honours at one of Ireland’s most prestigious choir festivals. The competing choirs will come from the four corners of Ireland adding a much needed boost to businesses in Navan. They will compete in competitions for solo singing, school choirs, youth choirs, adult choirs and church choirs, as well as piano solo and solo singing.
As usual, the crowds will throng in to support their favourite  choirs and to hear some of the quality voices in the land.
New Irish language competitions have been added to the programme this year for school and youth choirs, such has been the demand. A primary school gospel choir competition and a junior primary competition have been introduced, and also this year, a new ‘GLEE’ Competition this year.  The Rotary Club of Navan Choral Competition, supported by Rotary Navan, sees choirs from all over Ireland nominated by their own local Rotary Club to take part in this competition.
The undoubted highlight again this will be the National Choir of the Year Competition, proving that Navan Choral Festival stands at the forefront of choral singing here in Ireland. This is sponsored by Navan Rotary, which will be held on Sunday evening 11th May, in the Newgrange Hotel at 7.15pm, with free admission to the
public.
All information, syllabus and entry forms are on www.navanchoralfestival.com, or contact Ernest on (087) 244 3739