Dec 8: Christmas Concert! 8pm: Live at the Helix Arts Centre, 4 in a Bar is joined by special guest Laura McCabe and instrumental jazz group the Johnny Taylor trio. Tickets (€14.50) are available at the Helix box office: 01-7007000 or online at http://thehelix.ie/4-in-a-bar/
Our evening promises to be nothing short of spectacular, with festive feel and a cosy cabaret arrangement. Our first half will feature our 4 in a Bar classics, some old, some new, while our second half will bring in our guests and include your favourite seasonal numbers, including:
Jingle Bells, I'll be home for Christmas, Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Walking in a winter wonderland, Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, Have yourself a merry little Christmas, I'm dreaming of a White Christmas, Silent Night and Santa Claus is coming to town!
Proceeds go to Focus Ireland.
Dec 4: 3pm. Performing at 'Light Up A Life' at Our Lady's Hospice, Harold's Cross, the most important annual fundraiser for the hospice, last year raising €500,000 in vital funds. Please visit http://www.lightupalife.ie/about.aspx
Nov 30: 7pm. Harvey Nichols, Dundrum, performing for select guests at Harvey Nichols' Christmas Party 2011.
Nov 19: Cashel Arts Festival, performing in the Brú Ború Cultural Centre, 8:30pm
Oct 7: GOLD! We are again the IABS National Barbershop Quartet Champions 2011, taking the Gold Medal at the IABS Convention at Galway this year.
Sep: Our website is nominated for the Irish Web Awards 2011!
Aug 7: Singing at the RDS Dublin Horse Show, 1-4pm
Aug 6: Singing at the RDS Dublin Horse Show, 2-5pm
Aug 1: Featured guests on set of 'Pitch Perfect' for TG4 television:
June 29: Singing for President McAleese at Aras an Uachtarai:
June 26: Singing at the Helix Arts Centre Family Fun Day, 1pm
June 23: Singing for the Alumni of Trinity College Dublin at the annual 'Pimms in the Pav' fundraising evening:
June 15: After many months, we are proud to announce the launch of our début album, 'Introducing: 4 in a Bar' with a performance at the Workman's Club, 10 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2 (beside the Clarence Hotel) Doors open from 8pm.
Entry is just €6 and CDs will be available by the bucketload. We will have some guest performers joining us too...Please come, we promise to make it a great night!
(Tickets - €6 - available at the door or online at the Workman's Club site)
June 5: Bloom Festival, Phoenix Park. We will be singing live on RTE Lyric FM to open the show 'Movies and Musicals'at 2pm with our version of 'When you wish upon a star'.
May: We announce news of our new 'artistic residence' at the Helix Arts Centre in Glasnevin, Dublin. The Helix has afforded us a great opportunity to become incorporated into the vibrant artistic scene there, and we look forward to future performances in the wonderful spaces in the Centre. The Helix
April: We will be singing at the Cork International Choral Festival as guests in the Gala Concert on Sunday May 1st. We're looking forward to singing with local man Dan O'Regan at that...
2010:
Dec 5: Performing at the Back Loft, St. Augustine Street, Dublin 8, 8pm. For more info, please go to the RawClassico site here.
Oct 1/2: IABS 2010 National & International Barbershop Convention, Limerick. International Quartet Silver Medal Winners:
Aug 5 & 6: Performing at the RDS Horse Show:
Aug 1: Performing at Ballykeeffe Amphitheatre, Co. Kilkenny
July 25: Performing at the Ardmore Pattern Festival, Co. Waterford:
June 10 & 11: Performing at the Taste of Dublin Festival:
Jun 3: Winners of the Wimax/Imagine.ie nationwide jingle competition! Hear the full jingle on youTube here.
May 15 & 16: Featured on Newstalk FM, Ireland AM and Xposé (TV3) to promote our performance on The X-Factor, Dublin
Mar 19 & 22: Educational performance project at Willow Park School, Blackrock, Dublin
Mar 12: Performance at the Royal Dublin Golf Club, Dublin
2009:
Dec 21: Concert in St. Patrick's Cathedral Grammar School, 8pm. Plus special guests. All proceeds go to the Choir school. (€15/10, children free)
Dec 18: Performing for Dublin's 98FM €30,000 cash giveaway, Grafton St, 2pm
Dec 18: Performance for TASCQ, Temple Bar Square, 1pm
Dec 14: Performance for TASCQ, Temple Bar Square, 1pm
Dec 13: Performance at CHQ, Spencer Dock, 1pm
Dec 12: Concert in St. Andrew's Church, Malahide, 8pm. Plus special guests. All proceeds go to UNICEF, the children's charity. (€15/10, children free)
Dec 11: Guest appearance at UNICEF Casino Night Christmas Gala Dinner with Sir Roger Moore, Ballsbridge Court Hotel
Dec 9: Performing in Christmas Concert, Malahide, 8pm
Nov 28: Performing in Dundrum Shopping Centre, 4:30pm
Nov 12: Performing at Meteor Headquarters, Heuston South Quarter, 12:30pm:
Nov 1: Temple Bar Festival of Chocolate, Meeting House Sq, Temple Bar, 2pm.
Oct 28/30: Video shoot for Meteor advert, Dublin.
Oct 2/3: IABS 2009 National & International Barbershop Convention, the Helix, Dublin. National Quartet Gold Medal Winners.
Sep 26: In Concert: '4 in a Bar'! Plus special guests Enchiriadis Youth Choir (dir. Cathal Clinch)
St. Andrew's Church, Malahide, 8pm (€15/10)
Sep 25: Culture Night 2009. Concert performance in St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, 5pm. ->
Sep 21: Live performance on TV3's Ireland AM, 8:20am.
Aug 9: Concert: 'Bach to Barbershop', St. Ann's Church, Dawson St, Dublin. 3pm (€donation)
4 in a Bar is Ireland's leading barbershop quartet, being the current IABS National Champion Quartet of Ireland for the third time now (2008/2009/2011) We have also represented Ireland at European level competitions too (Eindhoven, 2009), the only Irish group to do so for many years.
In recent years, we have been involved in a wide variety of high-profile activities, including performing for the President of Ireland at Aras an Uachtarain, Dublin, national and international TV coverage in commercials (companies like Meteor, Wimax internet, etc), jingle recordings for RTE and other radio stations, international competitions and festival performances and we even had a 'brush' with the TV phenomenon X-Factor...
Besides festival performances, corporate events, weddings and parties, we also like to present our singing discipline in an educational capacity, visiting classrooms and encouraging our country's schools and young people to get involved in the cost-free, healthy activity of ensemble singing, in keeping with the principles of the BHS.
For any school or choir interested in this, please email us for details on our workshop format and costs. Bursaries and grants are available from both the Arts Council and the Irish Association of Barbershop Singing (IABS), with a form for download here.
We are proud to be sponsored by the Helix Arts Centre, a state-of-the art convention and performance facility in north Dublin city where we rehearse and perform, and our outfits are sponsored by T.M. Lewin
Individual profiles:
Ciaran Kelly:
Ciaran (lead) hails from Derry, and has been singing all his life, starting at St Eugene's Cathedral in Derry. He is a graduate of The Royal Irish Academy of Music and currently a Lay Vicar Choral at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He has toured the world with Celtic Woman, Anuna, the Western Youth Orchestra, and has been successful in many competitions as a soloist and, of course, with 4 in a Bar!
Tristan Caldwell:
Tristan, affectionately known as 'T', or 'Mr. T' Is the tallest and lowest in the group (being the bass).
Can be spotted grazing frequently throughout the day, and when interrupted will have a joke at the ready!
Eoin Conway:
Eoin (tenor) is from Dublin and first joined a choir aged seven (prior to that, he specialised in the mimicry of household appliances). He is a graduate in Music from NUI Maynooth. Apart from 4 in a Bar, he sings with several other groups, including the Palestrina Choir of St Mary's Pro-Cathedral. He also works as an arranger and pianist.
In his spare time he enjoys reading, composing, cycling for miles in the rain, and writing about himself in the third person.
Paul McGough:
Paul (baritone) lives in the shadow of Mr. T and bears the brunt of his bad jokes. Paul attended St. Finian's College in his home town of Mullingar as well as Trinity College Dublin, and still laments the closure of the Buttery Bar there. A one-time globetrotter with Celtic Woman, he's now happier at home, singing with the National Chamber Choir of Ireland, Anúna, the choir of St. Patrick's Cathedral Dublin and Resurgam, Paul is also responsible for the management of 4 in a Bar.