Community Choirs

Current Community Choir Projects

• Acapellabella Community Choir: an all female choir meeting weekly on Thursday evenings, based in Schull, West Cork. We enjoy a variety of songs and like to take our songs out into the community and join other choirs for shared activities. New members are welcome all year round and there is no need for any previous experience or music reading skills. The styles and genres we sing vary on a termly and project basis.

Support & Training for Community Choirs

The Community Choir has to be one of the best ways to meet and enjoy singing with others! Singing rates high on the health benefits scale, plus there’s that simple feel good factor to be experienced. I have initiated, supported and ran many choirs – the first in 2003 in Ballydehob, West Cork, Ireland. In 2014, I began to sing with the elderly and those suffering from Dementia, and with various Mental Health groups. Wanting to deepen my own growth and desires within harmony singing and song creation, in 2025 I decided to create a ‘next level’ group singing project…with a more diverse focus for the experienced femaile singer who is ready to expand beyond the regular choir format.  The Creative Voice Project

I offer support, training and mentorship for community choirs and their leaders in Cork and beyond.

“There was a particular moment I relished in our recent community choir event when we were singing in our local library. I was singing in public utterly without fear only pleasure.”
– Elaine Hooper, Cork, 2017

The West Cork Big Sing

Bringing Singing for Wellbeing into the Heart of the Community

The West Cork BIG SING! is a community singing project, aiming to bring the joy and wellbeing benefits of group singing to people across West Cork. Born out of a vision to unite large groups of voices in song, the project kicked off in 2015 with a closing event at the West Cork Feel Good Festival in Bantry on World Mental Health Day, supported by West Cork Mental Health Services. It works to make singing accessible and inclusive, particularly for those who may not otherwise have opportunities to join a group, through workshops, community choir participation, training and mentoring for new facilitators. Groups from seven West Cork towns took part, with events tied to local festivals such as the Clonakilty Wellness Week in May and the Feelgood Festival in Bantry in October.