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The choir have appeared twice at the Fez World Sacred Music Festival in Morocco in 1998 and 2002, gave the first ever Irish Prom at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1999 and have toured twenty countries since 1993. They accompanied the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese to Chile and Argentina in 2004. In January 2007 Anuna recorded a series of live performances in Cleveland which have been broadcast extensively on PBS across the USA in partnership with the U.S. Promoter Elevation. The group undertook a two month tour of the USA in Autumn 2007. In 2008 Anuna gave their debut performance at the renowned Concertgebouw Hall in Amsterdam. In July of 2009, Anuna combined with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland for a major concert of Michael McGlynn's compositions in Dublin's National Concert Hall.

They became closely associated with the Riverdance phenomenon from 1994 until 1996, giving the first performance of the piece at the Eurovision Song Contest 1994. Anuna sang the opening choral section entitled "Cloudsong". They feature extensively on the Grammy Award-winning album of the show, and have been appeared again as featured artists on two other Grammy Award-winning albums with the Chieftains in collaborations with Sting and Elvis Costello. The choir won an Irish National Entertainment Award for Classical music in 1994 for their album Invocation, and were nominated for a Classical Brit Award in 2000 for Deep Dead Blue. The group have recorded thirteen albums and been signed to many major record labels including Decca, Universal Classics, Polygram, Philips and Koch International.

The CD Anuna: Celtic Origins became the number one CD on the US World Music Charts in August 2007 according to Nielsen Soundscan and is also an award-winning PBS show and DVD. November 2008 saw the release in the USA of Christmas Memories, a CD and DVD also broadcast nationally in November and December. It achieved in excess of 80% carriage over the Christmas period on the PBS network. Both specials continue to be broadcast across the USA. The CD of Christmas Memories entered the Billboard World Music Charts at number six on first week of release and spent ten weeks in the top twenty.

2009 & 2010 includes performances and tours of Japan, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands and Sweden. Currently on release is Invocations of Ireland Michael McGlynn's self-made film. This is has been broadcast extensively in Australia/New Zealand throughout 2010 on the Ovation Channel with the DVD being released on Australia's DV1 and Columbia Music Entertainment in Japan. The group's latest album Sanctus is a spiritual album which includes Miserere mei Deus by Allegri and the twenty-two track Best of Anuna was released in June 2010, the same month as the choir recorded a DVD and CD with the Australian children's super-group, The Wiggles. In late July the choir combined again with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra at Dublin's National Concert Hall, with special guest violinist Linda Lampenius. At Christmas 2010, the choir released the beautiful CD Christmas with Anuna in Ireland and embarked on a hugely successful tour of the Netherlands, their second of the year.