Finalists in Ireland’s largest social event for senior citizens were feted yesterday ahead of the climax of the hugely popular Over 60s Talent Competition this weekend.

CORK has a new orchestra, and the aptly named Cork Concert Orchestra will soon hold its inaugural performance.

Cork City Hall will turn into a classical winter wonderland this weekend as New Zealand soprano Hayley Westenra teams up with Cork Youth Orchestra for a special Christmas concert.

Opera legend José Carreras has promised a magical midsummer night when he performs his first concert in Cork next year.

Some of the country’s best young classical musicians will be teaming up with one of the kings of the West End to take a 20-year journey through the music of the silver screen.

Over the course of The Menu’s career as a professional stove-jockey many moons ago, the apex of his career remains a prolonged spell as apprentice to sorcerer Seamus O’Connell of the Ivory Tower.

It’s become as much a part of Christmas as the tree and mistletoe.

TEENAGE members of the country’s oldest youth orchestra are tuning up for the performance of their lives with one of the world’s greatest stars of musical theatre.

TRANSATLANTIC co-operation between two police forces will culminate this coming Friday with a major concert designed to raise money for families of children battling cancer.

LEGENDARY folk rock band Loudest Whisper will celebrate 40 years on the road with a big concert in Cork this weekend.

LAST Friday after a concert in the Cork School of Music, the Berne Youth Symphony Orchestra had their tour bus broken into, and a camera and two violas stolen.