{"id":1409,"date":"2025-10-28T14:49:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ppmta.ie\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:49:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:49:22","slug":"calling-all-music-teachers-and-choir-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ppmta.ie\/?p=1409","title":{"rendered":"Calling all music teachers and choir directors!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Sligo Youth Choral Festival<\/strong>\u00a0takes place in the Knocknarea Arena at ATU Sligo on\u00a0<strong>Thursday, 13th November<\/strong>\u00a0and they are looking for more 3 &amp; 4 part choirs &#8211; any combination of voices &#8211; to take part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of potential interest to many music teachers, they are&nbsp;offering a&nbsp;<strong>Bursary&nbsp;for a conductor in the Secondary School competitions to attend Sing Ireland\u2019s 45th International Choral Conducting Summer School.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And they have the \u2018<strong>Big Sing\u2019&nbsp;<\/strong>with Patrick Barrett who will be adjudicating along with Bl\u00e1naid Murphy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have a choir that could compete in this event-a whole day of choral competitions exclusively for young people-get in touch with them now at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:sligoyouthchoralfestival@gmail.com\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sligoyouthchoralfestival@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All information can be found on\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sligoyouthchoralfestival.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.sligoyouthchoralfestival.ie<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ppmta.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1F367214-ABD7-44C6-88A8-C04045CE0895.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/ppmta.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1F367214-ABD7-44C6-88A8-C04045CE0895-724x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1410\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ppmta.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1F367214-ABD7-44C6-88A8-C04045CE0895-724x1024.jpeg 724w, http:\/\/ppmta.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1F367214-ABD7-44C6-88A8-C04045CE0895-212x300.jpeg 212w, http:\/\/ppmta.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1F367214-ABD7-44C6-88A8-C04045CE0895-768x1086.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/ppmta.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1F367214-ABD7-44C6-88A8-C04045CE0895-1086x1536.jpeg 1086w, http:\/\/ppmta.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1F367214-ABD7-44C6-88A8-C04045CE0895.jpeg 1414w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sligo Youth Choral Festival\u00a0takes place in the Knocknarea Arena at ATU Sligo on\u00a0Thursday, 13th November\u00a0and they are looking for more 3 &amp; 4 part choirs &#8211; any combination of voices &#8211; to take part. Of potential interest to many music teachers, they are&nbsp;offering a&nbsp;Bursary&nbsp;for a conductor in the Secondary School competitions to attend Sing Ireland\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ppmta.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ppmta.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ppmta.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ppmta.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ppmta.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ppmta.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"http:\/\/ppmta.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ppmta.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ppmta.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ppmta.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}