Lord Mayor’s Tea Dance
City Hall, Cork Sunday 26th January 2020
3.00pm-5.30pm
Evelyn Grant and the Cork Pops Orchestra
Special Guests
Keith Hanley –Voice of Ireland
DJ Dashka – award winning music producer
Tickets €10 Pro Musica Oliver Plunkett St., Cork
A January
‘Gathering’ of young and old, from communities all over Cork and beyond who
love to dance, will take to the floor in City Hall, to the ‘Savoy Hotel’ style
music of Evelyn Grant (RTÉ lyric fm) and the Cork Pops Orchestra. The
Lord Mayor’s Tea Dance, hosted by Cllr. John Sheehan, Lord Mayor of Cork, is a not-for-profit initiative organised by a local
committee of people from the public, private and voluntary sectors. The
committee is chaired by Dr. Andrew Crosbie.
Afternoon tea is a highlight of the
occasion and there will be a ‘Cinderella’ raffle prize for one lucky lady, who
will receive a hair do prize Ikon Hair Salon, lunch for two from the Monenotte
Hotel. The proceeds from the raffle are in aid of Enable Ireland.
Young people are invited to bring an
older person or a group of older people to the ‘Ball’.
Previous Tea Dances have proven to be
great fun and the need for these events is greater now than ever before. These
dances recognise the role of a previous generation and offer a wonderful
opportunity to celebrate and acknowledge this contribution at the start of 2020.
We are inviting ‘The Young at Heart’ of
the nation to use the ‘free travel’ to come to Cork for the ‘craic’. We hope by
publicising this event nationwide that local groups in cities towns and
villages throughout the country will repeat this initiative.
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’.
The orchestra will be joined by special
guest Keith Hanley –Voice of Ireland and award winning music producer DJ Dashka,
who has performed worldwide. http://www.djdashka.com
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, a bit of rock ‘n’ roll and then let it all hang
out with DJ Dashka, Keith Hanley and the Cork Pops Orchestra.
We would like to acknowledge the
continued support of Cork City Council; The HSE,; First South Credit Union; Valerie
Finnegan Cahill (Ikon Hair Salon); Dino Cregan and his family, the Douglas
Street Business Association and the Cork Youth Orchestra transition year
students.
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 in 2000.
See
link to see a previous Tea Dance on youtube
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