The Market Street Singers present.....

Roll Over Beethoven!

Featuring Beethoven’s “Choral Fantasy”

With Ingrid Verhulsdonk, piano soloist

And for the first time, we’re performing in the U District at

University Christian Church

(4731 - 15th Ave NE)

on

Saturday, May 30 at 7:30pm

and

Sunday, May 31 at 3:00pm

After celebrating our tenth anniversary season with a musical retrospective of our first decade together, we greet 2015 by pushing new boundaries. We present a selection of new and rarely heard music, as well as Ludwig van Beethoven’s epically delightful Fantasy in C minor for Piano, Chorus, and Orchestra, commonly known as the “Choral Fantasy.” Our accompanist, Ingrid Verhulsdonk, is the featured piano soloist for this challenging work, with a festival orchestra brought together for this special production.

We proudly introduce two new works by area composers Mitchell Fund and David Reznick, along with a rarely heard choral piece by renowned American opera composer Carlyle Floyd. To this we add a new choral setting of a famous poem by Emily Dickinson and a lush arrangement of the Shaker song Simple Gifts. As a way to give voice to the downtrodden, we offer an early 17th century choral hymn from colonial era Peru, most likely composed by and for Andean native peoples and sung in the Quechua language. And we liven up the room with a rousing version of Lift Every Voice and Sing, often called the “Black American National Anthem.” This is a truly diverse concert with many surprises.

This is a FREE event. Contributions are gratefully accepted. The Market Street Singers is a 501(c)3 organization and your gifts are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law. Based in Seattle, we are registered with the Washington State’s Charities Program.

Visit the Market Street Singers online at www.MarketStreetSingers.org for more information and ideas for parking.

THE MARKET STREET SINGERS invite you to the 2015 edition of…
FESTIVAL OF FAVORITES: A COMMUNITY CHORAL CELEBRATION

Sunday, January 25, at 3:00pm
Ballard First Lutheran Church - Haavik Hall
NW 65th & 20th NW
(enter from parking lot to the west of the church sanctuary building)

Since 2011 The Market Street Singers has presented community sing-alongs featuring favorite choral classics, familiar “chestnuts” which singers continue to love no matter how many times they sing them. The success of these choral classics festivals has led us to offer them as ongoing events. There has recently been increased choral sing-along activity 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. Singers of all abilities are welcome, and non-singers are welcome to just show up and enjoy the music. A suggested donation of $10 will help cover expenses.

There is no need to reserve a space, but if we run out of music scores, you may have to share with someone. But isn’t this a lovely way to make friends?

SPREAD THE WORD! There is nothing better than a large crowd of happy people singing music they love, or music they are falling in love with…

You can look forward to singing things like:
Billings “Africa” - Morley “April is in My Mistress’ Face” - 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” - Tallis “If Ye Love Me” - JS Bach “Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring” - Lassus “Jubilate Deo” - Morley “Now is the Month of Maying” - Vittoria “O Magnum Mysterium” - Rene Clausen “Seat Me as a Seal” - Palestrina “Sicut Cervus” - “Sumer is a cumin in” - Brahms “Waldesnacht” - Bennet “Weep O Mine Eyes” - Vittoria “O Vos Omnes” – Randall Thompson “The Road Not Taken”

A concert for all the good, little girls and boys, of every age.

Come hear The Market Street Singers in…

Down the Chimney

The Market Street Singers invite you to set out a plate of cookies and a glass of milk while we wait by the chimney for Santa. In the meantime we’ll do some seriously fun singing, enough musical goodies to fill any of those stockings hung in a row.  No lumps of coal!  ALL the creatures will be stirring, even the mice! We’ll do most of the work but you’ll get to sing a little, too.

Saturday, December 13, 7:30pm

Ballard First Lutheran Church

NW 65th & 20th NW (2006 NW 65th St) in Ballard

This is a free event. Contributions are gratefully accepted.

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

Visit the Market Street Singers online at www.marketstreetsingers.org for more information.

The Market Street Singers’ annual rummage sale will be held from 9 AM to 4 PM on Saturday, Oct. 18 at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Ballard at 5710 22nd Avenue NW (across the street from Ballard Commons and one block north of the Ballard Public Library). 

 

Previous sales have included popular items, such as:

• books
• clothing
• linens
• small tools and housewares
• functional electronics
• small working appliances
• dishes
• knickknacks

And More! 

 

Please come support your local singers.  We are a non-audition community choir based in Ballard. In the ten years since our founding we have grown into a diverse group of more than 85 singers. We are proud of our inclusive, service-oriented vision. We seek to be an agent of change and community building through musical excellence and public outreach.  To find out more about the Market Street Singers, visit www.MarketStreetSingers.org.  Sorry, the rummage sale is cash only.  Hope to see you there!

Our First Ten Years!

The Market Street Singers presents…

Our First Ten Years!

Celebrating Our Tenth Anniversary

And for the first time, we’re performing at the…

Ballard High School Performing Arts Center

1418 NW 65th Street, Seattle, WA  98117

Saturday, September 13, 7:30pm

This is a free event. Contributions are gratefully accepted.

When on September 11, 2004 we created, on short order, a choir to do just one performance at a Ballard ArtWALK event we couldn’t have dreamed it would eventually become one of the area’s largest and most dynamic choral ensembles. Here we are, ten years later, serving up gloriously beautiful choral music and pursuing a mission to build communities with song. This concert, which brings together new members with special alumni from the past, will be a joyful and nostalgic celebration not to be missed. As usually we will present a little bit of everything, much of it our favorite selections from the last ten years, and some things truly new and different.

We are thrilled to be holding this concert at the Ballard High School Performing Arts Center, our first time at that venue. This will provide extra space in the audience for you, and all of your friends and family. So please save the date and spread the word.

The Market Street Singers is a 501(c)3 organization.  Visit the Market Street Singers online for more information about the choir or our upcoming show at www.MarketStreetSingers.org

The Market Street Singers presents…

Communitatis: Two Communities Join in Song

A joint concert featuring our guests Earthrise Choir with theWestside Unitarian Universalist Chorale

  

Saturday, May 17, 7:30pm

Westside Unitarian Universalist Congregation

7141 California Ave SW (West Seattle)

and

Sunday, May 18, 4:00pm

Ballard First Lutheran Church

2006 NW 65th St (Ballard)

This is a free event. Contributions are gratefully accepted.

The Market Street Singers kicks off its tenth anniversary year with a grand, celebratory concert including the newly created vocal ensemble, Earthrise Choir, with additional support from the Westside Unitarian Universalist Chorale. The “Singers” will perform the ever popular “Gloria in D” by Antonio Vivaldi with orchestral accompaniment and guest soloists Marie Morris and Madison Cox. After some additional “graveside humor” the celebration continues with Earthrise Choir and the WSUU Chorale who always present engaging and thought-provoking selections. The concert closes with all voices singing together; one large vocal ensemble joining two communities.

Click this link for a map and directions to Westside Unitarian Universalist Congregation:

Directions to WSUU

Click this link for a map and directions to Ballard First Lutheran Church:

Directions to Ballard First Lutheran

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www.MarketStreetSingers.org

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The Market Street Singers is a 501(c)3 organization. Your gifts are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law. Based in Seattle, we are registered with the Washington State’s Charities Program. Additional information is available by calling the State Charities Program at 800-332-4483 or visiting www.sos.wa.gov/charities.