Unexpected sessions of angelic voices are popping up all over Cork City over the last few days.

Nearly 5,000 singers from all around the world will take part in the 62nd Cork International Choral Festival, an event expected to attract up to 50,000 visitors to the city.

King Lear will help write the latest chapter in the storied history of The Loft, writes Colette Sheridan

They were singing on the banks of the Lee last night as Cork’s longest-running festival kicked off its diamond jubilee event on a high note.

A psychiatric patient’s densely written letters to her husband inspired David Fennessy to compose a haunting dirge for the Cork Choral Festival, says Jo Kerrigan.

Hopes are building that MTV could “crash Cork” with one of its most exclusive live music shows.

IN the arts, January is a quiet month. Yet last week, I saw two major plays, Druid’s production of Dion Boucicault’s The Colleen Bawn and the revival of Martin McDonagh’s A Skull in Connemara.

Cork Choral Festival 2013 was another huge success, writes Declan Townsend

Anti-war oratorio ‘A Child of Our Time’ will open Cork choral festival, says Jo Kerrigan.

Cork Choral Festival is more than competition, it is primarily about the joy of singing, writes Declan Townsend

A Glee Club from the Philippines were last night awarded the Fleischmann International Trophy on the last day of the Cork International Choral Festival.

The National Chamber Choir and the Gentlemen Singers both perform at Cork Choral Festival on May 4, writes Nicki ffrench Davis

IT has been interesting to read the many tributes to the late, great Luciano Pavarotti.

ON two consecutive weeks recently, letters claiming to have been written by visitors from England have appeared in your letters column.