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Article: Teen choirs from Northern Ireland, United States memorialize attacks
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- August 7, 2003
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Dateline: NEW YORK
The voices of almost 60 Northern Irish and American teenagers filled
a chapel near the World Trade Center site as two youth choirs performed
a concert to memorialize victims of terrorist attacks in their homelands.
"Both countries have lost a lot of people in terrorist attacks," Daryl
Simpson, musical director of the Omagh Community Youth Choir of Northern
Ireland, said Wednesday at St. Paul's Chapel. "For us, the significance
of performing here is to share our experiences and emotions with people
in New York."
Simpson, 27, founded the choir shortly after a car bomb blast in Omagh,
Northern Ireland, killed 29 people and injured ...