Festival singers offer fall, winter concerts
After a very successful series of summer concerts, The Elora Festival Singers are about to launch their ever-popular series of performances for the fall and winter season.
This annual tradition showcases six choral performances in both Fergus and Elora this season featuring the Grammy and Juno-nominated Elora Festival Singers with guest musicians.
On Oct. 27, the Elora Festival Singers are joined by organist Michael Bloss, an international performer and music educator, for Nine Lessons and Carols for Harvest, a reflection on the autum harvest with nine glorious choral works.
On Nov. 30 at St. John’s Church in Elora the singers will present the one-act opera Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti.
On Dec. 8, again at St. John’s Church in Elora, the Singers and conductor Noel Edison will bring to life Handel’s English-language masterpiece, Messiah, one of the best-known and most frequently performed choral works in Western music.
Fast becoming a Christmas tradition itself, Festival of Carols has three performance times just to accommodate the popularity of this communal event filled with wit and good cheer.
The popular Soup Concert series is back on Jan. 19, with a light lunch served at the Elora Legion prior to a talk by Edison, and the Elora Festival Singers’s performance of A German Requiem.
Closing the winter series is Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. John Passion on April 6.
Tickets be purchased by calling 519-846-0331 or visiting www.elorafestival.com. For more information call 519-846-0331 or email info@elorafestival.com.
