SPECIAL EVENT! GratiTuesday Fundraiser at Reuben's Brews in Ballard - 6/3/25!

Please join us for a special fundraising event this coming Tuesday!

The Market Street Singers will be partnering with Reuben's Brews for a special fundraising event to celebrate GratiTuesday! Join us for an evening of fundraising, community, and maybe even a song!

TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2025

5-9 p.m.

REUBEN'S BREWS Ballard Tap Room

5010 14th Avenue NW

Seattle, WA 98107

$1 from all pint sales, including all brews $6 and higher, all growlers, and all sets of at least 3 tasters (excluding bottles or cans) will be donated to TMSS. There will be both alcoholic and non-alcoholic options available.

We will have a table staffed with friendly volunteers who are looking forward to chatting with you about the choir and what we're all about. Stop by, say hi, and be sure to take home some TMSS sticker swag!

Please be advised that masking will not be required at this event.

We hope to see you there!

The Market Street Singers Present: THEMEFUL

The Market Street Singers are proud to present our spring concert, "Themeful"! Join us for an afternoon of amazing choral music, featuring everything from a Beatles medley to a trio of madrigals, and so much more! Plus, this concert will feature incredible guest artists!

When: Sunday, June 1, 2025 at 2:30 p.m.

Where: Ballard First Lutheran Church - 2006 NW 65th St., Seattle, WA 98117

This is a FREE event, but contributions are always gratefully accepted. Our community cookbook, "That Sounds Good!", will be available for purchase, and we will have a limited supply of our new t-shirts available as well. Please visit https://www.marketstreetsingers.org/  for more information about The Market Street Singers or to make a donation.

Please note that performers will be masked. Audience masking is encouraged, but not required.

We look forward to seeing you!

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The Market Street Singers is a choral ensemble that builds connections within diverse communities. Celebrating the joy of choral music among singers and listeners, we aspire to cultivate neighborhood pride with choral arts that are truly community identified. We recognize that singing builds communities and brings us and our audiences great joy. We want to share this joy limitlessly with the wider world around us. We therefore include and encourage participation by people of all races, ethnic and national origins, genders and gender identities, sexual orientations, religious backgrounds, socioeconomic statuses, ages, and physical and mental abilities among our singers and audiences.

Join Us for FESTIVAL OF FAVORITES at NW Folklife!

 Please join The Market Street Singers for our annual "Festival of Favorites" sing-along at the 54th Annual Northwest Folklife Festival!

Date: Monday, May 26. 2025

Time: 1:30-2:15 p.m.

Location: Cornish Courtyard, 201 Mercer St., Seattle, WA 98109

Visit https://nwfolklife.org/festival/home.html for more information about the festival.

NEW TMSS T-SHIRTS! Order by 4/30/25

The Market Street Singers board of directors have been hard at work the past couple of months planning this year’s t-shirt fundraiser, and we are excited to finally share it with you!

In March, we held a design contest encouraging artistically inclined chorus members and their friends or family to submit design ideas for our new shirts. The choir then voted on the submissions in April, with the winning design announced in our newsletter on April 20^th.

CONGRATULATIONS to chorus member Pamela Faulkner for the winning t-shirt design! Her beautiful design will be featured on a sapphire-blue, 100% cotton t-shirt available in unisex crew neck and ladies’ V-neck cuts.

Please consider supporting the choir and helping us fundraise by ordering one of these AMAZING shirts! Sizing information can be found HERE for unisex and HERE for ladies’ cut. 

Shirts are $25 each.

UNISEX SIZES: Youth Extra Small, Youth Small, Youth Medium, Youth Large, Youth Extra Large, Adult Small, Adult Medium, Adult Large, Adult Extra-Large, Adult 2X Extra-Large, Adult 3X Extra-Large, and Adult 4X Extra-Large.

LADIES CUT V-NECK SIZES: Adult Small, Adult Medium, Adult Large, Adult Extra-Large, Adult 2X Extra-Large, and Adult 3X Extra-Large.

Sizing is standard, although the ladies’ cut will possibly run a half-size smaller. Please keep this in mind when ordering.

Ready to order your TMSS shirt? Have questions? Contact our executive director, Adelaide Leroy, at executivedirector@marketstreetsingers.org. Please note that all orders must be made by midnight on April 30th, 2025.

Payment for your shirt can be made on our website -- please leave a note that the payment is for t-shirts! We regret that we will be unable to process orders received after the April 30 deadline, but future orders may be possible -- more information to come. 

We are thrilled about this new fundraising opportunity for our choir, and, as always, we are grateful for the love our community has shown us over the years. Your generous support allows us to keep doing what we love and building our community through song. 

Thank you!

 

 

 

More than a Silent Night

Celebrating the anniversary of the world’s favorite Christmas song,
and the moods and mysteries of the season,


The Market Street Singers present…

More than a Silent Night

Saturday, December 8 at 7:30pm

Sunday, December 9 at 3:00pm

Ballard First Lutheran Church (2006 NW 65th Street)

We celebrate the 200th anniversary of the song "Silent Night" with organ, brass, and audience sing-along. Also featured are the Magnificat by Charles Theodore Pachelbel, three choral premieres by local composer/arrangers, and plenty of music to capture the spirit of the season. Expect some surprises!

Chris Vincent, conductor

Ingrid Verhulsdonk, accompanist

Tim Clements, guest soloist 

This is a free event. Contributions are gratefully accepted.

Visit the Market Street Singers online: www.marketstreetsingers.org


The Market Street Singers, based in Seattle, is registered with the Washington State’s Charities Program as required by law. Additional information is available by calling the State Charities Program at 800-332-4483 or visiting www.sos.wa.gov/charities.


The Market Street Singers is a recipient of the Civic Partners grant from the City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.


The Market Street Singers is a choral ensemble for Ballard that builds connections within diverse communities. Celebrating the joy of choral music among singers and listeners, we aspire to cultivate neighborhood pride with choral arts that are truly community identified.


We recognize that singing builds communities and brings us and our audiences great joy. We want to share this joy limitlessly with the wider world around us. We therefore include and encourage participation by people of all races, ethnic and national origins, genders and gender identities, sexual orientations, religious backgrounds, socioeconomic statuses, ages, and physical and mental abilities among our singers and audiences.

THE MARKET STREET SINGERS
invite you to the seventh anniversary of…

A FESTIVAL OF FAVORITES:
A COMMUNITY CHORAL CELEBRATION
(and bake sale!) 

Saturday, August 25, at 7:30pm
Magnolia Lutheran Church - Downstairs Social Hall
2414 - 31st Ave W
In the Magnolia neighborhood. Street parking available,
as well as some parking spaces in the LDS Church lot across 31st Ave.

For seven years The Market Street Singers has presented community sing-alongs featuring favorite choral classics, familiar “chestnuts” that singers continue to love no matter how many times they sing them. The success of these “Festivals of Favorites” has led us to offer them as ongoing events, at various venues, including NW Folklife. There has recently been markedly increased interest in choral sing-alongs in the area and we are proud to be part of this exciting trend.

We provide the music, all you have to do is show up and enjoy the fun. This is not designed as a concert performance, but rather a community music making event. Whereas singers of all abilities are welcome, non-singers are welcome to show up to just enjoy listening to the music. And singers, YOU get to choose what music we do from a list of over 25 titles. Things like…

Billings “Africa” – Mozart “Ave Verum Corpus” – Biebl “Ave Maria” – Farrant “Call to Remembrance” – Billings “David’s Lamentation” – Farmer “Fair Phyllis” – Rutter “For the Beauty of the Earth” and “Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind” – Tallis “If Ye Love Me” – JS Bach “Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring” – Lassus “Jubilate Deo” – Morley “Now is the Month of Maying” and “April is in My Mistress’ Face” – Faure “Cantique de Jean Racine” – Vittoria “O Magnum Mysterium” and “O Vos Omnes” – Lauridsen “Sure on this Shining Night” –  Palestrina “Sicut Cervus” - “Sumer is a cumin in” – Brahms “Waldesnacht” – Bennet “Weep O Mine Eyes” –  Randall Thompson “The Road Not Taken” and “Alleluia” and “Choose Something Like a Star” –  Jeffers “I Have Had Singing” – Joseph Martin “The Awakening”

A suggested participant donation of $15 will help cover expenses. We also invite you to enjoy our bake sale. As you know, everything goes better with cookies and brownies.

There is no need to reserve a space, in the unlikely event we run out of music scores, you may have to share with someone. But isn’t this a lovely way to make friends? We do, however, want to make sure we have enough chairs set up. If you plan to attend we request you notify director@marketstreetsingers.org  or call 206-465-3296.

There is nothing better than a large crowd of happy people singing music they love, or music they are falling in love with. Pure choral joy. Almost as good as a choral jukebox!

The Market Street Singers invite you to…

A Holiday Concert +/-

Saturday, December 9 at 3:00 pm 

Saturday, December 9 at 7:30 pm

Ballard First Lutheran Church

NW corner of NW 65th and 20th NW in Ballard

Not your usual holiday concert, we're doing a lot of music you can hear all year long. But we do also have our famous holiday sing-along and lots of good figgy pudding cheer. We are presenting two concerts, both on Saturday.

This is a free event but contributions are always gratefully accepted.