[POSTPONED] 2022 Seattle Sings Choral Festival
Free
The Seattle Sings Choral Festival has been postponed, likely until October 2022. Given the rise in reported cases, the increase in the reproductive rate, and the elusive nature of the current variant(s) as well as illnesses (Covid and non-Covid) among festival staff and in the choral community, this is the only decision we could make. We make this decision for the safety of our community and our ability to gather in the future.
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The Seattle Sings Choral Festival is live once again! Puget Sound choirs are excitedly gearing up in preparation for the return of the Seattle Sings Choral Festival, live on Saturday, May 14. Twenty choirs of all kinds and from across the region will present a dazzling variety of styles; from Bach to Barbershop, Finnish to jazz, Broadway to classical, symphonic size to chamber music intimacy, there is something to please every taste. As festival co-chair Scott Kovacs says, "I can’t imagine a time when we need choral singing more than right now, and to be returning to the Seattle Sings Choral Festival feels like good medicine for us all!"
The festival is thrilled to collaborate with Northwest composer and University of Washington choral professor Giselle Wyers. In what has become a festival tradition, the Greater Seattle Choral Consortium commissions a work especially for the festival. Dr. Wyers' Join in Gathering, first introduced at the Festival Online Showcase in October 2021, is her contribution as Composer-in-Residence. In keeping with this tradition, audience and choirs will join in singing a portion of this lovely piece.
Admission is free; come and go as you please.