Free concerts in unique venues are part of the Cork International Choral Festival experience.
Four thousand singers from Europe and Canada have arrived in Cork for the five-day choral festival, which attracts thousands of local people and visitors.
Concerts are being held in a range of venues, many of them free to the public.
Today customers of the AIB on South Mall are enjoying choral music courtesy of Musicanova, a choir from Rome.
This is a fitting location, explains manager Glynis Casey, as the architect who drew up plans for the Munster and Leinster Bank headquarters designed it around the Italian palazzo style.
A 'Nationwide' report broadcast on 3 May 2006. The reporter is Mary Kennedy.
'Nationwide' is an early evening magazine programme that brings Irish viewers an eclectic round-up of news, views and events from around the country.
