After months of great dedication to rehearsal, we arrived to De La Salle College Chapel, Waterford one Saturday morning to record our CD, Memories & Melodies with our ever patient Musical Director Niall Crowley and accompanist Sinead Dempsey to meet with Cian O’Carroll the recording expert who was to become our Musical Director some years later. We soon learned not to move on the beautiful parquet flooring in case it squeaked and to stop whenever a motor bike or ambulance siren passed in the distance. We also realised at that point it would take more than one day to complete. And so, we returned time after time each with their own music folder and square of carpet (to lessen the squeaks) in order to complete the task. We are very grateful for the wonderful artwork completed for the album cover by Eimear & Aoife Dillon, granddaughter and daughter of our long serving member Tony Dillon.

CD Tracks:
Impossible Dream - arr. J. Leavitt

My Luve is like a Red Red Rose - arr. H. Robertson

Sunshine in my Soul - John Coates

Die Nacht - Schubert	  

Bonny Wood Green - Stephen Hatfield

Drunken Sailor - arr. Parker/Shaw

Our Father - Nikolai Kedrov

Kymbayah - arr. K. Dinham

Ol’ Man River - arr. R. Robinson

If Ye Love Me - Thomas Tallis

Danny Boy - arr. Ben Hanlon

Battle Hymn of the Republic - arr. P. Wilhousky

Drunken Sailor - arr. Parker/Shaw

Waterford Male Voice Choir was founded in 2001 and since its inception has created quite a stir in music circles in the South-East. The idea to set up the choir came about when a few friends who share a love of singing met in a local pub and decided the time was right to set up a male voice choir. While Waterford is famous for its choral traditions there had never been a Waterford Male Voice Choir. They decided to meet on a regular basis and experience singing in a more formal setting; the rest, as the saying goes, is history.

From an initial group of just 10 members the Choir has gone from strength to strength and now boasts a membership of nearly 60. The Choir soon realised it had the potential to progress far more than it originally thought and performed in two concerts and competed in the New Ross, AIMS Festival in its first year. Since then it has performed many concerts with local and international choirs raising tens of thousands of euros for Waterford charities along the way.

Waterford Male Voice Choir has travelled extensively over the years to the UK, Poland, Italy, Austria and Spain. In Rome, the Choir had the great honour of performing at Sunday evening mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica.  It has also performed in the Schubert Theatre in Vienna competing at the 30th International Franz Schubert Choir Competition where it achieved a “Silver Standard”. Another proud achievement was to be invited to sing in our own National Concert Hall in Dublin, where we performed in the Friends of St. Luke’s Annual Paddy Cole Concert, 2013.