Kansas City Bronze presents an inspiring concert of favorite hymn arrangements for their 2024/2025 season opening concert. Kansas City Bronze is a 6-octave handbell ensemble ringing Malmark handbells and handchimes. Please come and be prepared to be inspired by classic hymn tunes performed with new and unique percussive sounds. Admission is FREE, but donations will be graciously accepted.

The William Baker Festival Singers, Kansas City's award-winning semi-professional a cappella chorale specializing in sacred a cappella classics, new works, spirituals and gospels, open their 27th season with a diverse concert on the theme "I believe." Selections include works by Kim Andre Arnesen, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Juan de Lienas, Moses Hogan, William Dawson and Robert Ray. The concert will include the world premier of "My Shepherd" by Composer in Residence Dr. Sean Sweeden with organist Jacob Hofeling and percussionist Mark Lowry.

Wine & Cookie Reception Following the Concert.

New South Festival Singers, created in 1985 as Gwinnett Festival Singers and known for decades as William Baker Festival Singers Atlanta, celebrates the start of their 40th Anniversary Season on the theme "Follow Me to Heaven." The concert features works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Eriks Esenvalds, John Lennon, Bobby McFarrin, and many others. This first concert of the 2024-2025 begins Lynn Swanson's final season as Music Director & Conductor.

The William Baker Festival Singers perform an informal concert of appreciation for our rehearsal home, previewing the 2024-2025 season.

Vox Venti, under the leadership of Music Director Ed Frazier Davis, presents a concert of music on the theme of nurturing. The centerpiece of the evening will be To the Hands by Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw for choir and string quintet. Also featured will be works by Nathaniel Dett, Ēriks Ešenvalds, and Daniel Godsil, a world premiere by Vox Venti director Ed Frazier Davis, and Visions of a Child by Chickasaw composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate in celebration of Indigenous People’s Day.

The William Baker Festival Singers offer Choral Evensong in the nave of the historic St. Mary's Episcopal Church in downtown Kansas City. The Festival Singers is Chorus in Residence at the magnificent c1880 church. This is a public service of Christian worship.

In the Summer Singers 25th year of singing in Kansas City, we're pulling out all the stops! The AVODATH HAKODESH, or Sacred Service, of 20th century composer Ernest Bloch will be the centerpiece of this exciting concert, performed in one of the most acoustically perfect halls in the world, the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts!

The singers will be joined by organ and percussion, utilizing Helzberg Hall’s magnificent Casavant 102-rank organ of 5,548 pipes. Distinguished baritone Joshua Markley will be in the role of the Cantor. Don't miss this event!

Contact the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts ticket office to purchase tickets ranging in prices from $25 - $50 each. Please visit https://tickets.kauffmancenter.org/events to purchase online or call 816.994.7222 to purchase a ticket over the phone.

The Summer Ringers Academy is bringing a new kind of summer choir to Lee's Summit! Under the direction of Amy Chinnery-Valmassei, The Summer Ringers Academy will present their first annual concert in the community of Lee's Summit, Missouri.

The Summer Ringers Academy ensemble has a mission of 'building a community of ringers to support others across the Kansas City Metro area'. They will present a concert of selections demonstrating a variety of bell techniques, like basic ringing, marting, hand-chimes, and more! They will perform on 2 sets of 3 octaves, Schulmerich bells, and 3 octaves of hand-chimes.

Please support this brand new Choral Foundation group in their inaugural summer of ringing.

$10 general admission tickets can be purchased at the door or on the following eventbrite link https://www.eventbrite.com/e/summer-ringers-academy-inaugural-concert-tickets-927892059127?aff=oddtdtcreator

Donations will also be gratefully received at the door to support wonderful & innovative music in our community! Wine and Cookie reception to follow the concert!

The Summer Singers of Atlanta led by Music Director Andrew Schmidt will perform a majestic program of music for chorus, organ, brass, and professional soloists featuring the thrilling GLORIA of John Rutter.

Other classics on the program includes Mendelssohn: VERLEIH UNS FRIEDEN; Fauré: CANTIQUE DE JEAN RACINE; Bruckner: OS JUSTI and LOCUS ISTE; and a modern work by Glenn Rudolph: THE DREAM ISAIAH SAW. It is an inspiring collection of diverse and beautiful music.

The concert will be performed in the historic Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church on Sunday, August 4th at 4:00pm. General Admission Tickets @ $25.00 and Patron Reserved seats @ $75.00 are available through Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/summer-singers-of-atlanta-rutter-gloria-tickets-927873754377 online or you can purchase at the door.

The William Baker Festival Singers is thrilled to welcome Music Director, Ben Bedroske and Milwaukee's Chant Claire to Kansas City for their first regional tour. Chant Claire is one of America's up and coming choral ensembles, celebrating the culmination of their 10th anniversary season in Kansas City.

The 70-voice Chant Claire will perform works of Gjielo, Holst, Vaughan Williams, Paulus, MacMillan, and others. The William Baker Festival Singers will welcome Chant Claire with highlights from their 23/24 concert season. The choirs will combine to 120 voices to sing Alexander Gretchninov's 'Our Father', Ralph Vaughan Williams 'Lord, Thou Hast Been our Refuge', and Kansas City composer Sean Sweeden's 'In the Beginning'.

They will be hosted by the award-winning William Baker Festival Singers on Sunday, June 9 @ 3:00pm in the nave of the St. Mary's Episcopal Church, 1307 Holmes Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Admission is free, with donations gratefully received. A Wine and homemade Cookie Reception will follow the concert.

Since their first appearance at Charleston's Piccolo Spoleto Festival in 1989, the New South Festival Singers have performed annually to capacity audiences. Previously known as Gwinnett Festival Singers (1985-1998) and the William Baker Festival Singers Atlanta (1998-2015) the Atlanta based a cappella choir has delighted festival audiences with their signature diversity of classics from across the globe, their early American hymns and spirituals, and their rousing gospel selections. Now under the direction of Music Director Lynn Swanson the 40 singers will celebrate 35 years in Charleston with one of their most exciting concerts ever! Please arrive early for best seats.

Have you felt the wonder that flows without end?

The closing concert of Vox Venti's second season under the direction of Ed Frazier Davis largely explores the concept of dreams, of both the sleeping and waking variety—some fantastical, others grounded in the here and now. We will perform works by Eriks Ešenvalds, Adolphus Hailstork, Caroline Mallonee, André Thomas, Mari Ésabel Valverde, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Eric Whitacre, plus the first and second prize winners of the Institute for Choral Creativity’s annual composition competition, and a new commission from a composer to be announced.

The award-winning William Baker Festival Singers, a 50-voice semi-professional chorale specializing in sacred music, performs a one-hour concert of sacred choral classics and spirituals. The performance is sponsored by the Music Ministry of the St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Lee's Summit A Wine & Cookie Reception presented by the Friends of St. Paul's Music will follow the performance. Admission is free, with donations gratefully accepted. 100% of donated funds will benefit Hillcrest Transitional Housing www.HillcrestKC.org .

The William Baker Festival Singers is an ensemble of the Choral Foundation. www.WilliamBakerFestivalSingers.org

The New South Festival Singers has performed annually to capacity audiences at Charleston's Piccolo Spoleto Festival since 1989. Hear a preview of their exciting 2024 concert for their hometown Atlanta audience. Music Director Lynn Swanson has chosen a thrilling blend of classics, new works, spirituals and gospels to celebrate 35 years at the prestigious festival. Early arrival recommended for best seats.

The Wiliam Baker Festival Singers is a 50-voice semi-professional chorale specializing in sacred a cappella classics and spirituals that is Chorus in Residence at the historic St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Kansas City. The award-winning chorus has performed in 14 states and the nation's capital. Our concert is a hometown performance of repertoire for their 2024 Chicago Tour. Featured composers include Sean Sweeden, Norman Dello Joio, Eric Whitacre, Eriks Esenvalds, and Ralph Vaughan Williams. The Festival Singers welcome guest artists from the Allegro Choirs of Kansas City, Christy Elsner, Music Director. The gala concert will be followed by a Wine & Cookie Reception. Early arrival is recommended for best seats.

Join the festivities at Kansas City's original Cinco de Mayo Festival at the Guadelupe Centers in Kansas City, MO! This will be the 2nd annual appearance for Voces Festivas as a featured performer. Expect to hear choral music from Mexico, Argentina, and more with the unique sounds and rhythms of Spanish music. Please support this unique choral group in our community!

Guadalupe Centers bring to the KC community its Cinco de Mayo celebration presented by CommunityAmerica Credit Union!! This fundraiser not only benefits Guadelupe Centers' programs, but it continues a neighborhood tradition that originally started in 1922, making it the original Cinco de Mayo Fiesta in Kansas City!

This year’s fiesta will be a three-day event, where families can enjoy local and national entertainment, mariachis, folkloric dancers, food, kids activities, petting zoo, vendors, artists, contests, raffles and much more!.

Free Admission

The William Baker Festival Singers and Chicagoland's own Vox Venti perform a joint concert at the culmination of the Festival Singers' 2024 spring tour. Vox Venti, Ed Frazier Davis, Artistic Director, is an ensemble of the Choral Foundation in its second concert season. The performance will be in the spectacular nave of the 1893 era St. Chrysostoms Episcopal Church. The program will be wide-ranging, including classics, works by living composers, and American spirituals.

As part of their 2024 Chicago tour, Kansas City's William Baker Festival Singers sing a Vigil Mass followed by a mini-concert in the magnificent St. Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Church in the Pulaski Park area of Chicago. The 19th century church is one of the most beautifully ornate worship spaces in Chicago. Choral selections will include works by Bruckner, Brahms, Durufle, Vaughan Williams and Esenvalds. This is a service of Christian worship open to everyone followed by a public concert.

The William Baker Festival Singers & Chamber Orchestra presents the 12th annual Kenneth Babcock Memorial Masterworks Concert in the splendor of St. Mary's Church in Kansas City, Missouri. Featured works include Benjamin Britten: FESTIVAL TE DEUM; William W. Dreyfoos: SONGS OF THE HOLOCAUST; Leonard Bernstein: CHICHESTER PSALMS; Ralph Vaughan Williams: DONA NOBIS PACEM, and Ed Frazier Davis' AT OUR LAST AWAKENING. Wine and Cookie Reception following the concert.

Music Director Lynn Swanson leads The New South Festival Singers, soloists and orchestra musicians in Leonard Bernstein's thrilling "Chichester Psalms" and other works of Jewish composers. This is the annual Andrew Cain Memorial Masterworks Concert. In the 39 seasons of the Festival Singers, the Atlanta-based ensemble has performed an impressive array of choral-orchestral classics.

Vox Venti under the direction of Ed Frazier Davis presents an emotional concert exploring these two titular themes, both central to the human condition, through repertoire full of moving and inspiring choral art.

The chorus will perform works by Calixto Álvarez, Kim André Arnesen, Bob Chilcott, Ed Frazier Davis, Adolphus Hailstork, Gabriel Jackson, Bernice Johnson Reagon, and John Tavener, plus Herbert Howells' funereal masterpiece Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing (composed for a memorial for John F. Kennedy) and a new commission from Vox Venti’s own Bass II section leader Tabes Bridges.

Each February The William Baker Festival Singers present an outreach concert in the Heartland region. Our 2024 performance will be a joint concert with the St. Joseph Community Chorus, Timothy Jon Tharaldson, Artistic Director. Each chorus will perform highlights from their own repertoire before joining in thrilling mass choir selections led by Mr. Tharaldson. The program will be a special tribute to music of black composers and of the African-American song tradition.

Since its founding in 1985, The New South Festival Singers has championed the music of black composers and the folk songs and spirituals of the black experience. For our annual "Tribute to the American Black Composer" concert in 2024, Music Director Lynn Swanson has chosen the deeply moving cantata, "Changed My Name" by Linda Twine. Using traditional songs and composed music the cantata tells the story of seeking freedom through the words of 19th century heroes Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman. Dr. Norma Raybon plays the role of Sojourner Truth, and the Reverend Henrietta Andrews plays the role of Hariett Tubman.