Community Choral Celebration

THE MARKET STREET SINGERS invite you to another… 

FESTIVAL OF FAVORITES: A COMMUNITY CHORAL CELEBRATION

Saturday, January 26, at 7:30pm

Ballard First Lutheran Church

NW 65th & 20th NW (across from Smokin’ Pete’s BBQ)

In the summer of 2011 The Market Street Singers presented a community sing-along event featuring favorite choral classics, familiar “chestnuts” which singers continue to love no matter how many times they sing them. This was such a huge success that we were requested to do this again at last year’s Folklife Festival. At the festival many people asked us to do it yet again, perhaps making it a regular thing. With such enthusiastic feedback we have decided to offer this as an ongoing annual event in late January.

We’ll 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 the expense of this event.

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? There is nothing better than a large crowd of happy people singing music they love.

For more information visit www.marketstreetsingers.org.

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.

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 are a 501(c)3 organization. Your gifts are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law. We are based in Seattle and 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.

While you’re thinking of what to tell Santa you want this year, come hear The Market Street Singers in…    

 

My Grown-Up Christmas List

 

With special guests, the Rockin’ Recorders!

 

The Market Street Singers invites you to a sound celebration that’s often reflective but not always serious. From Renaissance motets to Justin Bieber with ukuleles, you are certain to find something on your Christmas music list. The storms of the holiday rush, famous carols in a gospel hue, the reassuring lights of Chanukah…we’ll cover a wide range of holiday moods. We’re particularly happy to feature an appearance of the Rockin’ Recorders, a trio of young women from the Music Center of the Northwest who do remarkable things with their wooden flutes.

 

And, of course, there will be a holiday sing-along.

 

Saturday, December 15, 7:30pm at First Lutheran Church Ballard (NW 65th & 20th NW, across from Smokin’ Pete’s BBQ).

 

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 by calling the State Charities Program at 800-332-4483 or visiting  www.sos.wa.gov/charities.

 

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

 

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Time to celebrate the holidays with a concert by your favorite chorus. It's fun and it's free so join us on the 15th!

 

The Market Street Singers invite you to our 8th annual Rummage Sale

Saturday,October 6th from 9 AM to 4 PM

St. Luke's Episcopal Church

5710 22nd Avenue NW (by the Ballard Library)

 

Cash only please.

For more information please visit http://www.marketstreetsingers.org or find us on Facebook.

Some examples of items for sale are:

• Clothing: all styles, sizes for children, women (VINTAGE DRESSES!) and men

• Clothing accessories: belts, boots & shoes, gloves, purses

• Backpacks, camping gear, tents

• Bedding, linens, curtains

• Books: hardbacks, paperbacks

• Cameras, projectors

• CDs, DVD’s, Tape’s, Video’s, Players, Radios

• Fabric, patterns, arts and crafts, yarn

• Household items: tools, small appliances, blenders, toasters, dishes, glassware, utensils

• Jewelry and eyeglasses

• Paintings and wall hangings

• Toys, skates, games, bikes, trikes

• School supplies: stationery, photo albums

• Small furniture: small chairs, nightstands, end table, small bookshelves

The Market Street  Singers sing the music of…

Gilbert & Sullivan and Lerner & Lowe

A Ballard Artwalk Event

Saturday, September 8, 7:30pm

First Lutheran Church Ballard

(NW 65th & 20th NW, across from Smokin’ Pete’s BBQ).

Join us for a light, end-of-summer concert featuring music by two of the most popular songwriting teams in the history of music theater. Whether you’re a fan of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “topsy-turvy” light operas of the 18th century London stage, or the more contemporary Broadway and movie productions of Lerner and Lowe, you’ll enjoy many favorites and perhaps hear a new song or two. We’ll mix it up with selections from Camelot, Patience, Gigi, Iolanthe, Paint Your Wagon, The Mikado, My Fair Lady, and a slightly reinterpreted H.M.S. Pinafore.

Plenty of good humor and romance are winning combinations for a musical September evening in Ballard. Check out the Artwalk before and after the show.

This is a free event, but contributions gratefully accepted.

Click this link for a map and directions to First Lutheran Church Ballard: http://www.ballardfirstlutheran.org/map.html

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Summer fun

We took a break from rehearsing for our September 8th concert last week and held our annual choir picnic at Golden Gardens. We had a little more sun than last year and the temperature was a bit warmer but it was still brisk at the beach. Chris B. served as grillmaster providing hot dogs for all and members brought salads, fruit and yummy desserts. Gordon brought his ukelele and strummed out a few tunes for us. Chris V. and Brandon sang in Italian. Penelope, Rosalyn and Mariah got some rounds going. Meghan brought her darling kids. It was a lovely time. And now back to rehearsals!

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Free English Choral Concert!

Free choral concert this weekend! We're getting up a group. Why don't you join us?

The Choir of Christ's College of Cambridge is performing Saturday at 8 pm at Seattle First Baptist Church. Great opportunity to hear English choral music properly done. Details here.