About us
Wicklow Sings was established in 2016 to provide a platform for Wicklow-based choirs to gather, perform, celebrate and showcase their choirs, music, work and people. Its flagship event, is the Wicklow Sings Festival, a gala concert held every spring in Greystones. The Festival is a non-competitive, inclusive and multi-generational celebration of community singing, featuring a diverse mix of choirs from every part of the county.
Wicklow Sings For Health is the newest addition to the programme. Launching on 17 October 2026, World Singing Day, it brings together County Wicklow's Singing for Health groups for the first time.
Wicklow Sings Team
Dara Mac Mahon
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Dara is a music educator, facilitator and singing specialist. Working with people of all ages and abilities, she has a special interest in Singing for Health and Wellbeing. Dara believes singing
promotes creativity, confidence and wellbeing, and builds community, which inspired her to set up Wicklow Sings in 2016. Dara runs her own singing studio, Greystones Vocal Academy, and is
involved with many community and health singing projects, for example supporting people with Long Covid, dementia and Parkinsons. She has been Music Director of the Wicklow Parkinsons Choir since
it began in 2014.
Jamie Lyon
Jamie is a Vocal practitioner /Creative producer based in County Wicklow, and a passionate advocate for group singing as a resource for a healthy community. She holds a PgCert in Professional Practice (Vocal Pedagogy), with a specialism in singing for health, awarded with distinction by the Voice Study Centre and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She has also completed trauma- and mental-health-informed training for singing leaders with Music for Good and the Sing Up Foundation. Jamie has actively been involved in Wicklow's Choral Activation initiative through the Creative Ireland programme, and previously served as artistic director of the Unity Gospel Choir.