BC High student Tim Smyth of South Boston, a member of the Boston College High School Concert Choir, contributed to the festivities on Sunday March 19 with an early morning concert at the Massachusetts Convention Center.
The 42-member choir (41 students and 1 faculty) under the direction of Doctor Marina Rozenberg of Hingham was invited by Senator Linda Dorcena Forry to greet people as they arrived for the breakfast with a medley of Irish songs.
Among the many songs were: USA’s National Anthem, Ireland’s National Anthem on Gaeilge (in Gaelic), Danny Boy, The Wild Mountain Thyme, a Scottish folk song made famous by Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, I am Bound Away, an emotional sea shanty.
Front row (kneeling, left to right):Christian Archibald (Hingham), Nick Brink (Quincy), Thomas Potts (Quincy), Thomas Hamblet (Milton), Scott Czerwinski (Burlington), Kunchok Dingyon (Somerville), An Ngo (Holbrook), Joseph Januszewicz (Brighton), Luc Grenier (Scituate), Kevin Parsons (Braintree), Stephen Recupero (North Easton), Tim Smyth (South Boston), Dorien Perry-Tillmon (Randolph)
Back row (standing, left to right): Bear Martens (Milton), Nate Robards (Hingham), Justin Rich (Bridgewater), Jared Daigle (Waltham), Jake Martens (Milton), David Narrow (Concord), Nick White (Saugus), Ale Oggiano (Stoughton), Chris Keith (Foxboro), William Moody (Charlestown), Michael Duarte (Arlington), James Conley (Milton), Chris Harrington (Arlington), Gavin DSouza (Marshfield), Cooper Roberts (Milton), JR Branch (Randolph), Keenan Byrne (Milton), James Kester (Wellesley), Wyatt Staton-Todaro (Dedham), Kevin McDonough (Milton), Ronan O’Hara (Charlestown), Christian Cattaneo (North End), Tomas Sommer (Milton), Joseph Kester (Wellesley), Adam Jennings (Scituate), Dennis Cogan (Milton), James Caulfield (Dorchester), Mr. Eugene Holmes (Roslindale), Quentin McCarron (Cohassset).
Boston College High School is a Jesuit, Catholic, college-preparatory school for young men founded in 1863. The school enrolls approximately 1500 students from more than 100 communities in eastern Massachusetts. For more http://www.bchigh.edu
