Over 1,000 primary school children from 63 Dublin schools will sing their hearts out all this week as part of a regional concert series organised by the ESB. Then, throughout April and May concerts will also be held in Waterford, Kilkenny, Clonmel, Kildare, Tullamore, Galway, Longford, Thurles, Westmeath, Offaly, Kerry, Sligo and Limerick.

Eventually, 1,000 children will be picked to take part in a concluding concert in the National Concert Hall under the baton of Sean Creamer. The choir, which goes back to 1985 and the European Music Year, was founded by Creamer, a former music inspector at the Department of Education, to foster choral singing among primary school children.

The concerts will feature over 23 songs based on Robert Louis Stevenson's poetry and a selection of songs which include Irish airs, religious music and classical pieces.