St Columb's School of Music bring The Swingles to Derry

The Swingles are one of the world’s most admired and loved vocal groups. With a natural flair as entertainers, their stylish, classy shows take them to venues and festival stages across the world. 

They have earned five Grammy Awards and are recipients of multiple prestigious international accolades. 

With generations of fans from their live performances and appearances on film and TV soundtracks, The Swingles’ musical evolution and creative drive makes them as relevant today as when Ward Swingle started the group nearly six decades ago.

With their trademark vocal dexterity and innate musicality, The Swingles are reimagining jazz, classical, folk and pop from their ever-growing repertoire of arrangements alongside a rich vein of new original material. 

The group’s secret ingredient is the ability of the seven singers, soloists, songwriters and storytellers to combine as one seamlessly blended and timeless sound. 

The Swingles have always made creative use of close-mic amplification, and in the last decade, they have added unique live audio looping techniques to their stage performances – an immersive layering up of vocals to mesmerise the audience.

American-born Ward Swingle first assembled a group of Parisian session singers (originally named Les Swingle Singers) to sing Bach’s music for the keyboard in 1962. 

The resulting album ‘Jazz Sebastian Bach’ was a huge hit, breaking new musical ground and launching The Swingles to fame. Since then, the group has released more than 50 albums encompassing a huge variety of music, fuelled by Ward Swingle’s pioneering spirit and wide-ranging musical tastes.

Now they are bringing their incredible talent to Ireland.

The Swingles will perform two concerts for the St Columb's School of Music.

Each year, St. Columb's School of Music- which opened in 2019- organise a March Gala concert to help provide inspiration to their students, and bring music to the communities and people of the city and further afield. 

The Swingles will also be performing in Dublin in a joint venture with St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, for the School of Music.

You can purchase tickets, for either concert, from: www.stcolumbsschoolofmusic.com, or alternatively, you can buy a hard copy ticket, during opening hours, from Badgers Bar & Restaurant or at St Columb's School of Music.

The Ireland Concert dates are Thursday 2nd March at St Columb's Hall, Derry at 7.30pm and Saturday 4th March at Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin at 8pm.

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