Barbone Street Jazz Band

• Choir Musical Sundays
• New Year Brand New Orleans Jazz Funeral
• Day of the Dead Mariachi Band
• Christmas Eve
• Kwanzaa
• Guest Artists

• Director of Musical, Mark Daugherty
• Music Ministry
• Choir Leadership

• Choir
• Instrumentalists, dancers and non-choral singers

Choir Music Sundays

Twice a-year, through the December vacations and in the springtime, Mark while the choir present an important choral work with Sunday service, often with orchestral accompaniment. Current works feature

• Orff, Carmina Burana
• Brahms, German Requiem
• Linda Twine, Changed my Identify
• Bach, Mass in B Minor
• Robert Ray, Gospel Magnificat
• Poulenc, Xmas Motets

Unique Holiday Music

• Bury final years’ burdens at our New Year brand new Orleans Jazz Funeral with all the Bourbon Street Jazz Band
• Enjoy those people who have offered at our day's the Dead Service with Los Mariachis Alcones
• Sing a merry Christmas at our Christmas Eve Candlelight Service because of the Really Brilliant Choir
• Enjoy African American practices at our Kwanzaa provider with Abayomi Awodesu & Yomi Peters

Guest Artists

Periodically, our solutions function guest performers particularly Unitarian Universalist singer-songwriter and activist Joe Jencks and buddy Helena Nash (left). Recent guest artists have included violinist Lynn Mather, sitaristThomas Flanagan, and ballet performers Miranda Lennox and Greg Bomke.

Mark Daugherty: Director of Music since 1983, Mark Daugherty has generated our choir into a highly skilled ensemble and led the congregation to its present musically radiant condition. An honors graduate associated with Eastman School of musical, Mark additionally shows music at Chestnut Hill Academy and Springside class and it is the songs Director at Old York Road Temple Beth Am. He could be listed in the 2006 editions of that is whom in the us and that is which in American knowledge. Mark is also our pianist and plays our Austrian tracker organ, which was built-in 1964. Mark’s full bio can be obtained on our Staff page, or click.

Music Ministry: The Music Ministry works with the Minister and musical Director in preparing non-choral songs for chapel solutions and music for summertime services. In addition produces development to minister to musical requirements of chapel users, and special events such as those shown below.

Choir Leadership: The strong basis for our musically radiant congregation, the choir includes a number of our many energetic volunteers. Form 5 hour/week commitment necessary to produce excellent music for solutions, choir users additionally get ready for unique songs services and raise funds to aid preserve our instruments. In addition, many offer on other congregational committees. Existing co-chairs are Andrea Parry and Linda Smith.

Choir: in management of our Music Director, Mark Daugherty, and our four expert soloists, our 40-voice choir sings for many Sunday solutions from September through June. The wide range of selections achieves back into Renaissance and Baroque music—both sacred and secular—and extends to current worship songs situated in classical, modern United states and different globe customs. Rehearses Thursdays from 7:30-9:30 from September through June—open to any or all. To find out more, contact Mark Daugherty.

Instrumentalists, performers and non-choral singers: Opportunities to make songs and party happen throughout the season not merely associated the choir, but in addition doing solos plus in little ensembles (such as our USG Klezmer Band or Medieval songs Ensemble). Through the July-August choir hiatus, the songs Ministry arranges songs for services using gifted artists from our congregation. Past summers have included singer-songwriters, a spirituals group, a Balkan choir, pianists also instrumentalists.