Festival of Voice: Waterford High Hopes Choir

Festival of Voice is a weekend festival celebrating the power, beauty and universality of the human voice.

Recognising the healing power of music, this choir was established to assist people in their recovery from addiction, abuse, mental health issues, serious illness and the effects of homelessness.   
  
The High Hopes Choir was formed in 2014 by renowned conductor David Brophy, as part of a project in conjunction with RTE to make a documentary highlighting the issue of homelessness. Now known as the WATERFORD High Hopes Choir, their membership is now not exclusively for homeless people, although they still have some of the original members, who, thankfully, now have accommodation. Membership has broadened to include people with variety of issues, whilst also having members who just want to sing and help in any way that they can.   

Festival of Voice will include a series of pop-up events
· Morning Songs – a song to start the day
· Songs of the Liberties – a collective participative choir event celebrating the songs of the city
· Puccini in the Pub – Puccini over a pint…
We will announce details of pop-up events in the run-up to the festival

Presented by NCH and supported by IPUT Real Estate Dublin