02 November 2011
“Pitch Perfect” is a newly created format for TG4 from Good Company Productions which will be hitting our screens from Monday Night 7th November at 7.30pm with an hour long opening extravaganza.
Officially sanctioned by Croke Park and the GAA, “Pitch Perfect” has selected singers from local GAA Clubs and Parishes all over Ireland who will become a Choir and realize their dream of performing Centre Stage at Croke Park singing the songs of the Opposing Teams for the All Ireland Football Final on the 3rd Sunday of September 2011 in front of a crowd of over 82,000 people.
Our Two Mentors, International Soprano Niamh Murray and Composer and former Musical Director with Riverdance Colm O Foghlú will weed out their selection of Altos, Sopranos, Basses and Tenors and train these 30 Voices over an 8 week period and mould them into a Choir representing clubs from all corners of Ireland as the GAA does from Strabane to Schull, Kiltimagh to Killester and Gorey to Gort.
Filming takes place at locations from Maynooth College to the Gaiety Theatre to the National Concert Hall and with such notable Guests as Anuna, Colm Wilkinson, River Dance percussionist Ian McTigue, Barber Shop Quartet “Four in a Bar”, Rock Band “Stand”, Brian Kennedy, Fiachna O Braonáin and Seosaimhín Ní Bheaglaoich joining the mentors.
But “Pitch Perfect” is not just a choral music programme but offers us an incite into how our top County Teams work and train to reach their ultimate footballing stage, Croke Park. Throughout the series we follow the movement of the Football Championship with 8 weeks until the Final with the GAA backdrop being offered by the voices of such notable former GAA playing stars as Dara O Cinnéide of Kerry, Coman Goggins of Dublin, Jarlath Burns of Armagh and Seán O Domhnaill of Galway and many more.
Fáilte go - “Pitch Perfect”
“PITCH PERFECT” BEGINS MONDAY 7TH NOVEMBER @ 7.30PM
AND CONTINUES EACH MONDAY @ 8PM
Orla McIntyre represented Antrim in this.
