Singers from the Columbia Choral Ensemble from Vancouver, Washington, USA will be performing at St Nicholas Church, Kenilworth on Sunday, July 27 at 8pm, following Evensong.
The concert is free of charge to the public, but donations are welcome and will be to the Parochial Hall Restoration Appeal.
The 40 singers will perform a sacred programme of music with psalms, spirituals and more traditional music, including Clau
sen’s Psalm 100, Hall Johnson’s Ain’t got time to die and Rutter’s For the Beauty of the Earth.
The Columbia Choral Ensemble is made up of singers who are members of a wide range of other musical organisations including small church choirs to symphony orchestras.
The ensemble grew out of the Sanctuary Choir of the Columbia Presbyterian Church of Vancouver, WA.
The choir has performed as part of Expo 86 in Vancouver, Canada and at Expo 88 in Brisbane, Australia.
They have toured in Europe visiting countries such as Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Finland in addition to their tour of Australia and New Zealand.
Washington State University Vancouver University Singers was formed just six years ago as a community choir that later began attracting student participation. This is the first tour in which the singers have participated. This concert is part of a tour beginning in London at the Hospital for Neuro-disability, taking in St Nicholas Church in Kenilworth, Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon and finishing at St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh.
The concert will take place at St Nicholas Church, Bridge Street, Kenilworth.
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