This series of four weekly summer concerts commenced in 1999 and is now entering its twenty-seventh year and has thus become a well-established feature of the summer national cultural calendar, having survived the Covid years when public performances with live audience had to be abandoned in favour of online performances of one kind or another. Thank God we are now well back to the normal annual pattern of five weekly July recitals in the beautiful parish church which has such a special and splendid Danish-built pipe organ.
Central to each of these five recitals is our Danish-built pipe organ. Once again it is fitting to acknowledge the generosity of the Lutheran Church of Copenhagen in giving this magnificent organ to our beautiful Church in Tullamore some thirty years ago. We are reminded that we have here a world-class organ of which we are truly proud, and this series of summer concerts gives the wider public an opportunity to experience its grandeur in the hands of some of the most acclaimed international and national organists, playing solo and making music with fellow musicians and ensembles. It is my wish that this 27th annual series of concerts will bring as much enjoyment and refreshment as in previous years to all who participate and listen.
+ Tom Deenihan
Bishop of Meath