After the Blarney Woollen Mill we went to do our concert at the Maryborough Nursing Home. It took a while to actually find them, but when we got there the kids did a nice job on the solo pieces we did at our cabaret night. For this concert Graham also taught the kids "It's a Long Way to Tipperary". We did this as an audience sing-a-long. It went over well and the kids have been singing every since. A lot ever since! Graham seems to have created a singing Tipperary monster. So now I'm thinking of letting them know that it is also a long we back from Tipperary!
Our driver/guide, John suggested that we make an additional stop on our way back to dinner. He drove us in to Cobh, pronounced Cove. Cobh was the final stop to pick up people for the Titanic before heading across the Atlantic. Many of the Irish immigrants who were on the ship joined the voyage at this port. John dropped us at the front door of the cathedral. This is where most of those immigrants celebrated mass in Ireland for the last time before heading out to sea. We walked in and for many of the kids, they saw what the inside of a large cathedral looks like for the first time. There was one other group in the cathedral as well. University aged kids from all over Europe on an English as a second language tour. Their guide was telling them how beautiful the acoustics of the building were. She asked if anyone in their group wanted to sing. No one did. At that point one of our chaperones, Karen, jumped in and said that the other group there was a choir and would they like to hear them. The kids lined up and we sang "O Vos Omnes". Their faces lit up as they heard their voices reverberate throughout the cathedral! We also sang our "Agnus Dei" medieval chant. They were so excited after the performance it was hard to get them to head down to the harbour to see where the Titanic left from. They just wanted to keep singing. It was definitely the musical highlight of the tour so far.
Tomorrow we are off to Dublin so it's time to get some sleep.