A group of doctors from across Ireland will come together this weekend for a special performance to raise money for a Belfast homeless charity.
The Irish Doctors Orchestra, which is made up of doctors and health workers from across the island, will be playing at Clonard Monastery on Sunday in order to raise much needed funds for The People's Kitchen.
It will be the orchestra's first public performance after it formed a couple of years ago.
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Speaking to Belfast Live, orchestra leader Dr Eoghan Ferrie said: "The Irish Doctors Orchestra is made up of doctors and other health workers from across Ireland and we will have people taking part from Dublin, Limerick and Cork, along with those of us from Belfast and Northern Ireland.
"We formed a couple of years ago, having been inspired by the European Doctors Orchestra, and this will be our first ever public performance and we are all very much looking forward to it.
"The show will be raising much needed funds for Belfast homeless charity The People's Kitchen, which provides vital support for some of the most vulnerable in the city and in our line of work we have become very aware of how important services such as it have become, especially to the city's homeless population.
"As an orchestra we have covered all of the overheads for the performance ourselves, which means that all of the proceeds raised will be able to go directly to the charity."
The performance, which starts at 5pm on Sunday, May 15, is not ticketed and people will be able to attend if they make a donation to the People's Kitchen.
The orchestra will be playing pieces of 20th century music from either side of the Atlantic; Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland.
Dr Ferrie continued: "We are hoping that this will be a brilliant evening in Clonard Monastery and would like to invite everyone to come down, enjoy the show and help a charity that does incredible work in Belfast."
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