Jan 12
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Lord Mayor’s Tea Dance 2012
The Lord Mayor’s Tea Dance 2012 is taking place in City Hall Cork Sunday January 29th, 3pm-6pm. Tickets are €6 and are available from Pro Musica.
Entertainment is provided by the Cork Pops Orchestra conducted by Evelyn Grant and we expect some of our dancers to out-dance ‘Strictly Come Dancing’.
Rona Coulter and her dancers from Viva Dance Studios will provide an entertaining
interlude with a selection of dances.
The Cork Pops Orchestra will perform a selection of up-tempo and ‘smoochy’ numbers. Dancers can enjoy a range of music from Johann Strauss to Abba and demonstrate their dancing skills in waltzes, tangos, two-steps and a bit of rock ‘n’ roll.
The Cork Pops Orchestra’s Tea Dances were devised by Gerry Kelly and grew
from the successful Millennium Tea Dance project for ‘The Young at Heart’, which
took place in Cork City and County with the assistance of the National Millennium
committee and the Millennium committees of Cork City and Cork County Council.
Cork City Council, HSE, CIT, Cork 2005 and the private sector have supported subsequent dances.
The Cork Pops Orchestra – www.corkpops.ie – has evolved as Ireland’s only
Community Orchestra providing an educational and entertainment service to the
public and private sector.
Large-scale projects that the orchestra has been involved in include the annual UCC Strauss Ball, the annual Doc Nunan Ball, The Kinsale Gourmet Festival, “The Tall Ships” visit to Cork, the Tour de France, the Port of Cork Maritime Festival, an annual winter and spring concert series for schools in City Hall, Tea Dances for ‘The Young at Heart’.
The Cork Pops Orchestra has a special interest in projects for people with a learning or physical disability. The Cork Pops Orchestra runs a mentoring programme for students and emerging young professionals in music performance, multimedia and community music.
