BEFORE jetting off to winter in India, music patron Andrew McElroy found time to help organise a rather swank and distinctly musical party. The idea was to launch the BMW Song Circle - which is a slightly unfortunate name in that it conjures up unsettling images of boy racers sitting round a camp fire humming Kum bay yah. What it is, is a perfectly delightful way to spend a Sunday afternoon in October which BMW decided to sponsor.
Mezzo suprano Colette McGahon, baritone Philip O'Reilly and pianist Hugh Tinney will be giving two concerts at the National Concert Hall and all three were at the party to launch the series.
Suzanne Hardy from the fish people Hanlons was there - she provided the lobsters for the party (Colette sang at her wedding last year and brazenly admitted to pulling in all favours when it came to organising the event, something arts events organisers will know all about) also there were Edward Tobin, Alan and Rosemary Ashe Carsten and Ursula Meyer-Weifhausen, Roisin Hand, Yvonne McElroy, Harold Clarke and Georgian and Jim Cooke.