Experience The Totally Made Up Orchestra at the Ballina Fringe Festival as it brings the brilliance of the orchestral experience to more people and truly reaches out to new people.

Irvine passionately believes too many people in our communities feel orchestras are ‘not for the likes of me’ and have nothing in common with them and their lives.

Come and hear the ambitious and fun-filled new music written by the orchestra during a morning workshop in Ballina as it uniquely places the experiences, lives and worlds of Ballina people and participants from all social classes at its heart.

The orchestra, led by Brian Irvine, is the perfect antidote to any stuffy, formal perceptions - it's a unique orchestra that blends composition, improvisation, words, sounds, movements, noises, gestures, humour and much head scratching into a unique and captivating performance.

This is like nothing you’ve ever heard before!

Super fun and wild adventurous music guaranteed!

We’d love the orchestra to have a sizeable, supportive and enthusiastic audience for their 30 minute concert, so please come along, grab a coffee and be prepared to be ‘wowed’!

Please note:
/ this is a 30 minute concert
/ it's free to the public but ticketed
/ tickets available soon via www.ballinafringefestival.ie
/ to express an interest in joining the orchestra for the morning workshop visit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Q0V1jrAlAeQzYhlO6HLKn6fpRiWMtdGc8JE6vwTHiBs/edit

About Brian Irvine
Brian is an Ivor Novello award winning composer from Belfast. As Artistic Director of Dumbworld, he’s at the vanguard of community-music making and composition in Ireland and the UK.

He has collaborated and made work with artists from vastly different disciplines including Seamus Heaney, Primal Scream, David Holmes, Joanna Macgregor, U2 and Jennifer Walshe, as well as thousands of groups and individuals from all dimensions of society including ex-paramilitaries, young offenders, victims of violence, special needs groups, residential homes, community choirs, gardeners, footballers, bankers, homeless associations, call centre workers and schools.

https://www.brianirvine.uk/
https://dumbworld.co.uk/

This event was produced by Ronan Quinn in partnership with NCF Cultural Co-Op.
The project was funded by a Creative Ireland Community Grant & Mayo County Council.