Canto Open Evening: 7:30pm - Tue 17 June 2025
Family and Friends of Canto attended the Open Evening on Tuesday 17 June
As Denis and Carol are away and the Butlerstown Community Centre will undergo major building works, Canto is taking a break for the summer. So on Tuesday 17 June friends and family were invited to come along to an interactive evening of singing and fun to see what we get up to. Canto plans to resume on Tuesday 2 September. So if you would like to come and try it out Register Here
Here's a complete playlist recording of most of the songs in order for the folks who missed the event:
(54 minutes)
And here are the recordings song by song from the evening:
Saint Patrick's Breastplate
B flat minor
A sad sad round!
Earth Song
Denis O'Regan's arrangement of Michael Jackson's epic song
Caledonia
Everybody sang along to this unplanned tribute to Mary O'Neill
Grace
We taught the audience this 4-part round that families might sing before a meal
Mad World
Denis O'Regan's arrangement of this Tears for Fears hit
Ave Verum
Sumer is icumen in
Read more about this 11th Century Round
(The audience sang the 'Pes')
The Wellerman
Read about this Sea Shanty from New Zealand
The Orchestra Song
A fun song - with audience participation
Mini Interlude
The choir took a short break whilst Anne-Marie O'Brien and Carol and Denis O'Regan entertained with the following
The Swan
A famous Cello piece from 'The Carnival of the Animals' by Saint-Saëns
Panis Angelicus
Anne-Marie O'Brien joined Carol and Denis for Cesar Frank's setting
The Alto's Lament
Anne-Marie performs this comedy song about the frustrations of singing Alto
Good Vibrations
A fun short extract from this Beach Boys classic sung as a tribute to composer Brian Wilson who dies last week at the age of 82
Fix You
We have only recently started to learn Denis's arrangement of this classic anthem by Coldplay
The Parting Glass
We finished aptly with this song of parting beginning with solos from three of the youngest members of Canto