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Grammy Award-winning Los Angeles Children’s Chorus (LACC) will take its show on the road with a 13-day summer tour of the British Isles.

From June 29 through July 11, the the Concert Choir, Chamber Singers for treble voices, and the Young Men’s Ensemble for singers with changing voices will perform a total of 10 concerts in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, England, and Wales. LACC Artistic Director Fernando Malvar-Ruiz and Dr. Steven Kronauer lead the choirs.

The public is invited to a free local send-off concert to launch the tour on June 27, at 7 p.m. The Pasadena Presbyterian Church hosts. The program features a sampling of the repertoire each of the three choirs will be performing individually and jointly on the tour. Repertoire includes works by Felix Mendelssohn, György Orbán, Beethoven, Gwyneth Walker, and others. They will also perform selection of traditional folk songs from America and the British Isles.

First up, the LACC’s Chamber Singers will sing at a VIP reception for an Independence Day Celebration hosted by the US Embassy in Dublin July 3. This is followed by a performance in Belfast, Northern Ireland at St Mark’s Church, Dundela, on July 4.

Heading to England on July 5, LACC will perform for patients at the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital in Camden. On July 6, a concert is held at the Old Royal Naval College Chapel, and the Wesley Memorial Methodist Church in Oxford concert is scheduled for July 7.

The final stop on the tour is Wales, where LACC will give four performances at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, a six-day festival that features more than 5,000 singers, dancers, and musicians from some 50 countries. LACC will be featured in three performances on July 9 and present its final concert on the festival’s Oakleigh Stage on July 10.

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