The Gleneagle Concert Band is to host a fundraising race night to raise funds for their concert tour to Spain in July 2025.
It will be held on Friday, March 21 at 7.30pm at the Gleneagle Hotel.
The Killarney-based community band, now in its 44th year, will perform joint concerts with the Midleton Concert Band in Seville and Gibraltar under the baton of band conductor Robert O’Brien.
This will be the band’s eighth foreign tour following visits to Holland, Germany and Sweden in the 1980s, Austria in 2002, Paris in 2007, Lisbon in 2013 and Monaco and Cannes in 2017.
Band Manager Ciaran Lynch said: “The band will perform an open-air concert in the centre of Seville. This will be a wonderful spectacle as close to 80 musicians will be performing on stage between our own band and the Midleton Concert Band”,
He added: “This tour will be an amazing musical and cultural experience for band members and we are extremely proud to represent Killarney and Kerry abroad.”
Music Development Officer, Vincent Condon, said there are many costs involved when taking a band on a foreign concert tour.
Members pay for their own flights and accommodation but the band must fundraise to book concert venues, hire percussion equipment, transport instruments and music stands, bus hire and insurance.
“Parents and band members have been working tirelessly to fundraise for the trip and will visit businesses in Killarney throughout March to sell ads for our race night programme. We are appealing to local businesses to support Killarney’s town band, and any assistance will be greatly appreciated,” he said.
A half-page ad for the race night programme is €75, a full-page ad is €120 and to sponsor a race is €250.
Enquiries regarding the race night or parents who wish to enrol their child in lessons in the Gleneagle School of Music or as a member of the Gleneagle Concert Band can contact the band at 087-2229513. Past members and adults with previous musical experience are also welcome to join.
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