ST. PATRICK'S CONCERT.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 63, 14 March 1940, Page 8

ST. PATRICK'S CONCERT.

As St. Patrick's Day this year occurs on Sunday, the Irish national concert is to be held in the Town Hall tomorrow evening. This concert js always one of. the outstanding musical events of the y e?x and on this occasion a specially talented group of performers has been selected, some of them well known to local singers and some from other parts of New Zealand. Miss Teresa McEnroe, an old favourite at St.', Patrick's concerts, will appear; Mrs. L. J.- Cronin, the well-known choral and operatic soloist, will again be heard, and Mr. Ray Trewern. talented tenor, is also billed for a group, of numbers. The committee has made arrangements to bring to Wellington Mr. J. Duffy, the popular Irish singer, ;of Greymouth. Another first appearance will be Mr. Harry Tohill. an artistic exponent of national dancing. Other assisting artists are Mrs. Nettie Mackay, Misses Rosale'en Hickmott and Eva Higgins, and Messrs. Maxwell Fernie and Frank Maher.1 The choral items will ,be given by the massed choirs of the combined Marist Brothers' schools, a total of 500 voices. The box plan is rapidly filling at the D.I.C.