Easton Choral Arts Society’s “Home for the Holidays” concerts will include traditional music of Christmas, plus holiday works of Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and island music from both coasts of our country. Performances will be on Thursday, December 7th at 7:30pm and Sunday, December 10th at 4pm, both at Christ Church in Easton.
The audience will travel across America through a festive journey of musical styles, from Southern gospel and Midwestern folk to Northeastern crooners and West Coast Hollywood flare. Even the islands of Hawaii and Puerto Rico will share their Christmas spirit. A group of professional instrumentalists will accompany many of the songs. You’ll even hear guitar and ukulele!
Songs of Kwanzaa include “Umoja” and “Kuumba” and will be accompanied by percussion, including rain stick. “Eight Days of Light” will be sung partly in Hebrew and will be accompanied by piano and string quintet.
Old favorites will include a powerful “O Come All Ye Faithful”, “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”, “Home for the Holidays”, “Sleigh Ride”, a rollicking spiritual arrangement of “Go Tell it on the Mountain,” a jazzy “We’re Gonna Decorate the Christmas Tree”, and “Love’s Pure Light” – a gorgeous new arrangement of “Silent Night”. The closer will be the “Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s Messiah.
Tickets are available at the ECAS website: EastonChoralArts.com “Get Tickets”
This concert is supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council, Talbot Arts and the Mid-Shore Community Foundation
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