The ceremony, which will be broadcast from RTE, is a Service of Reflection on the recent pilgrimage to the Holy Land undertaken by Dean Philip Knowles, Church of Ireland, Cashel and 23 other pilgrims.

The Tipperary Gospel Choir was founded last May by the well-known Bansha singer Marji Maxwell and includes 50 members, young and old, from around the county.

Since then it has performed on RTE Radio One's Sunday Service; a concert for the South Tipp Mental Health Association in St. Michael's Church in Tipperary town; a concert for the Church of Ireland in Dundrum and the charity concert in aid of Bothar at Aherlow House last December.

They sing gospel and spiritual songs such as Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Kumbaya, I'll Fly Away and Amazing Grace.

The choir won't be mistaken for any other choir, as they wear the blue and gold colours of their home county in gowns that were made by the Moorehaven Centre in Tipperary town.

Their busy schedule includes a concert in the next few weeks in aid of the victims of the Haiti earthquake, and a concert to raise funds for defibrillators in the community in Annacarty on Friday, 5th March.

They will also appear at the Tipperary Vintage Rally in aid of South Tipperary Hospice at Tipperary Racecourse on Easter Sunday, April 4; and will sing at a concert with Michael English in March.