Lucan Concert Band was formed in 1983 by Eithne Donnelly, its purpose being to provide musical education to the youth in Lucan, County Dublin, Ireland, where it is based.
The band was initially a recorder group for St Mary's Boys School in Lucan, then expanded into a Concert Band, catering for both male and female students. The band has played at various events ranging from their hometown of Lucan, venues throughout Ireland, and even as far as the United Kingdom & Prague.
Since 2001, the band has been under the direction of Lorcan Daly, Principal French Horn player with Irelands Army No 1 Band. Lucan Concert Band have been Intermediate Section winners at the 2005 and 2006 Irish Brass and Concert Bands. In 2008 and 2009 at the Irish Brass and Concert Bands the band came 2nd place in the Section Two Championships.
As part of the band instrumental lessons are taught on various wind, brass, and percussion instruments.
Famous quotes containing the words lucan, concert and/or band:
“The victorious party found favor with the gods, the vanquished with Cato.”
—Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)
“... in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing. When one of us dies, they scarcely know where to bury him.... We have no house, no place, no people of our own. We live in the streets, in the parks, in the theatres. We sit in restaurants and concert halls and look about at the hundreds of our own kind and shudder.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)
“And the heavy night hung dark
The hills and waters o’er,
When a band of exiles moored their bark
On the wild New England shore.”
—Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1783–1835)