FESTIVAL CHOIR
Come Sing With Us!
The Festival Choir, under the direction of Choir Director Deborah Handley, celebrates unity in community, bringing together audience members with festival artists to collaboratively sing in concert. This Festival Choir is inclusive, empowering, and welcomes all who want to sing.
2024 Festival Choir Repetoire
For 2024, the Festival Choir takes its inspiration from the world around us, internationally and locally, and will sing songs that answer war with peace, hate with love, and destruction with renewal. In doing so, the Festival Choir performance will amplify themes of joy, compassion, hope, and the enduring power of love.
2024 Song Selections include:
Better Times Will Come
Words & Music: Janis Ian
YouTube Links:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SWmZKtRNNA
Crowded Table
Lori McKenna, Natalie Nicole Hemby, Brandi Marie Carlile
Arr. Andrea Ramsay
YouTube Links:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyXecgzGkNI
Easy On The Earth
Words & Music: Luke Wallace, Arr. Shawn Kirchner
YouTube Links:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=63WyZTFNSi0
Harbour
Anna Tabbush
YouTube Links:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=98PMNK-lS0U
Hope Lingers On
Lissa Schneckenburger
Arr. Andrea Ramsay
YouTube Links:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0bmhcvPwTI
Community rehearsals will take place at 7-9pm on Tuesday July 23rd & Thursday July 25th at St Andrews Church, 2nd Ave, Mission, BC. [map it] Though not mandatory, these two sessions can be helpful. On site Festival rehearsals will happen three times over the weekend with the performance scheduled to open Mainstage on Sunday night. Please remember that the Festival Choir Project is about singing in community. All voices are welcome and encouraged. Please contact Deb Handley for more information at dahandley@hotmail.com
We look forward to singing together again!
