DGC Blog

Hey everyone!
The Dublin Gospel Choir will sing at the 7pm Sunday Mass on the 21st of December in our Friary Church, Church St. D7. This will be the last Gospel Mass until February and so will be a very festive occasion. The DGC will stay on to perform a “mini” concert featuring Christmas Songs after […]

To all the students out there who are sitting, have sat or will sit exams this year. The Dublin Gospel Choir are pleased to invite you to our annual candlelit Gospel Music Mass for Students in the Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Church St, D7 (near the four courts), this Sunday at 7pm. […]

Well, after a long Summer of rehearsing and rehearsing…and even a litle more rehearsing on top of that, we are almost ready to hit the tour circuit again. Only last weekend we unleashed a few of our new numbers on an unsuspecting (and slightly the worse for wear) crowd at the Electric Picnic!
For the […]

Well, it’s been quite a while since anything was written into the DGC blog and as I was passing and as it’s (yet again) a wet Summer’s afternoon I thought why not pause and leave a few words behind me? So here they are… a few midsummer musings on the nature of Gospel and the […]

It has been quite a while since I posted on this Blog! To be honest, I think Kevin has been doing a wonderful job keeping you all up to date on the joys of being a member of the DGC! However, once in a while an event happens that makes me reach for the keybord […]

It started as all the best days do with a very early rise to meet the DGC boogie bus on the Naas Road. One by one the choir assembled at that lonesome Bus Eireann stop opposite the Green Isle Hotel. Shaking off the early morning fog was easy, a few coffees and we were off, full of excitement and anticipation for what was to be a landmark day in the life of DGC. To top off the fantastic experience we had had in 2005, this year we were to again open the main stage with a longer set but this year we were also to perform at 9pm on the Big Tree Stage with the cream of Ireland’s talent and artists. We knew this was going to be an amazing day.

But what’s three and a half months between friends? Or, more accurately, blog writers and the throngs of avid blog readers. Ahem.
So what have we been up to? It’s been deceptively quiet-ish on the gig front for the past few months, because of our really-quite-exciting new project which I’ll mention later. We’ve just started […]

There are loads of great things about being in the Dublin Gospel Choir, or the DGC as we like to say sometimes (can you crack the code?). For example, having a ticket to see one of your favourite singers (in this case John Legend) and then finding out you’ll be backing him up onstage. Or […]

You know, the Dublin Gospel Choir has a lot in common with the Sugababes. Namely the letters s, b, u, g and e. As if that wasn’t impressive enough, we too have an ever-shifting lineup. So, just as they welcome That New Girl into their group, the DGC says hello (in three-part harmony, of course) […]

Well we’re back in to the swing of things in terms of rehearsals and preparations for what is shaping up to be a hectic 2006… Rehearsals have a different feel so far though. We usually have two rehearsals a week, and at the minute one of those is a little bit different to what I’m […]