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Lord Mayor’s Tea Dance
for the Young at Heart

City Hall, Cork Sunday 29th January 2012
3.00pm-6pm
Tickets €6 Pro Musica Oliver Plunkett St., Cork

2012 is the European Year of Active Ageing and Intergenerational Solidarity

Evelyn Grant and the Cork Pops Orchestra

Video from the 2006 Lord Mayor's Teadance

This is a not-for-profit initiative to address the issue of loneliness and the elderly, organised by a local committee of people from the public, private and voluntary sectors. The committee is chaired by Dr. Andrew Crosbie.

We are asking younger people to bring an older person or a group of older people to the ‘Ball’.

Previous Tea Dances have proven to be great fun and the need for these events is greater now than ever before. These dances recognise the role of a previous generation and offer a wonderful opportunity to celebrate and acknowledge this contribution.

We are inviting ‘The Young at Heart’ of the nation to use the ‘free travel’ to come to Cork for the ‘craic’.

We hope by publicising this event nationwide that local groups in cities towns and villages throughout the country will repeat this initiative.

Entertainment is provided by the Cork Pops Orchestra conducted by Evelyn Grant and we expect some of our dancers to out-dance ‘Strictly Come Dancing’.

Tickets are now on sale in Pro Music Oliver Plunkett St. Cork. Rona Coulter and her dancers from Viva Dance Studios will provide an entertaining interlude with a selection of dances.

The Cork Pops Orchestra will perform a selection of up-tempo and ‘smoochy’ numbers. Dancers can enjoy a range of music from Johann Strauss to Abba and demonstrate their dancing skills in waltzes, tangos, two-steps and a bit of rock ‘n’ roll.

The Cork Pops Orchestra’s Tea Dances were devised by Gerry Kelly and grew from the successful Millennium Tea Dance project for ‘The Young at Heart’, which took place in Cork City and County with the assistance of the National Millennium committee and the Millennium committees of Cork City and Cork County Council. Cork City Council, HSE, CIT, Cork 2005 and the private sector have supported subsequent dances.

About the Cork Pops Orchestra

The Cork Pops Orchestra has evolved as Ireland’s only Community Orchestra providing an educational and entertainment service to the public and private sector. Large-scale projects that the orchestra has been involved in include the annual UCC Strauss Ball, the annual Doc Nunan Ball, The Kinsale Gourmet Festival, "The Tall Ships" visit to Cork, the Tour de France, the Port of Cork Maritime Festival, an annual winter and spring concert series for schools in City Hall, Tea Dances for ‘The Young at Heart’. The Cork Pops Orchestra has a special interest in projects for people with a learning or physical disability. The Cork Pops Orchestra runs a mentoring programme for students and emerging young professionals in music performance, multimedia and community music.