It was a group of people who had been involved in the Trim Musical Society of the 1940s and 1950s that came together to form the modern Trim Musical Society, founded in 1986. Since then, this "new" society has gone on to produce 14 shows of as high a quality as you will see anywhere in the country. The first show, staged in 1987 was The White Horse Inn and it had an astonishing 90 people in the cast, all crowded onto the small stage in the Town Hall. As the expertise and reputation of the young society grew, it began to receive nominations from the Association of Irish Musical Societies (AIMS). This reputation was enhanced down through the years when three of our members - P.V. Dunne, Danny O'Brien and Mary Brennan -won national AIMS awards. P.V. brought further honour to the society by being selected to play the lead comic role of Ah Hakim in Gay Byrne's live radio production of Oklahoma! while Mick Miley won out against top-class competition in auditions for a supporting role in that historic broadcast and six members took part in the chorus. Choral singing has always been one of the society's greatest strengths. This was officially recognised when our Musical Director, Jane Lynch, received no less than three AIMS nominations as Best Chorus Master. A particularly proud boast of the society has been the fact that the show, including all principals, is always cast from entirely within the membership.