Fáilte from the Chair
A Daoine Uaisle agus A Cháirde!
It gives me great pleasure to welcome our members, guests and visitors to Killarney for the Irish Association of Barbershop Singers 2024 Convention. We hope by the end of the weekend, you'll have brilliant memories to bring home with you! I want to say Céad Míle Fáilte to the over 350 delegates who are here this weekend from all over Europe and further afield.
We have a jam-packed schedule for you all, and the programme is available online all weekend. Please check it regularly in case there may be amendments to the schedule. Please note that it is our intention to run the contest to schedule, so if a group does not use up its entire allocated time, we will wait until the next groups time to call that group on stage.
This convention doesn’t happen without the organisation of a fantastic team and the support of the wider membership as volunteers here at the event and behind the scenes. The names are too numerous to mention, you know who you are and I want to thank you all for everything you have done for the organisation of this event!
We will be joined this weekend by the largest cohort of youth Barbershoppers we have ever had at Convention, and I want to say a special thanks to their directors, Lorena and Doug, their parents and chaperones and everyone who has made it possible for them to be here this weekend!
So enjoy, sing and be merry!
It gives me great pleasure to welcome our members, guests and visitors to Killarney for the Irish Association of Barbershop Singers 2024 Convention. We hope by the end of the weekend, you'll have brilliant memories to bring home with you! I want to say Céad Míle Fáilte to the over 350 delegates who are here this weekend from all over Europe and further afield.
We have a jam-packed schedule for you all, and the programme is available online all weekend. Please check it regularly in case there may be amendments to the schedule. Please note that it is our intention to run the contest to schedule, so if a group does not use up its entire allocated time, we will wait until the next groups time to call that group on stage.
This convention doesn’t happen without the organisation of a fantastic team and the support of the wider membership as volunteers here at the event and behind the scenes. The names are too numerous to mention, you know who you are and I want to thank you all for everything you have done for the organisation of this event!
We will be joined this weekend by the largest cohort of youth Barbershoppers we have ever had at Convention, and I want to say a special thanks to their directors, Lorena and Doug, their parents and chaperones and everyone who has made it possible for them to be here this weekend!
So enjoy, sing and be merry!