The Bakersfield Higher education Chamber Singers are all set to place on their “Traveling Footwear” but they want your help.
On Saturday, the pupil group will conduct a concert that includes visitor artists as a fundraiser for an approaching vacation to central Europe.
Around the previous 12 months and a 50 percent, members of the BC Chamber Singers each and every created a contribution to the expense as properly as elevated an impressive $85,000, with no economical aid from the college.
The remaining $27,000 wanted for the excursion ought to be lifted by Feb. 14, according to Jennifer Garrett, director of choral and vocal scientific tests.
Garrett claimed the trip’s itinerary is packed with destinations and musical functions.
“They will go to Vienna, Austria Prague, Czech Republic and Leipzig and Berlin, Germany,” she wrote in an e-mail. “They will accomplish with other university choirs in Vienna and Berlin, give their personal concert in Prague, and give a recital in St. Thomas Church the place Bach wrote tunes for 27 many years.
“This is the tour of a lifetime and these pupils will come back unique persons. They will not only see some of the most major web sites in songs heritage, they will also get to know and conduct with other students in the two Vienna and Berlin. They will also pay a visit to and sing at a focus camp in Berlin.”
Together with the student performers, Saturday’s lineup incorporates noteworthy local musicians, all with household connections.
Singer-songwriter Monty Byrom will enjoy with the Byrom Brothers, which includes brother Tanner on drums along with bassist Gary Rink, Chris Neufeld on keys and vocals, and Paul South on guitar and vocals.
Jim Ranger, acknowledged for his second put acquire on NBC’s “The Voice,” is set to carry out as will his mother, Lydia, who has recordings of her have and serves as a pastor at New Life Church.
Also on the invoice are husband and wife group Ken and Jill Burdick, who have performed in neighborhood theater shows as effectively as endorsing tunes training — Ken as a choir teacher at West Substantial and Jill as vocal director for Music Fusion, an auditioned youth choir by way of the Boys & Ladies Club, and assistant conductor for the Bakersfield Learn Chorale with Garrett.
For the concert, the Chamber Singers will perform two pieces on your own and then give backup for some of the solo items by the guest artists.
Garrett wrote, “The songs will be an extraordinary mixture of designs and genres and there will surely be a thing for everyone! Having this variety of talent on one particular phase alongside one another is simply miraculous and all of Bakersfield need to be at this concert.”
The evening will also consist of a raffle for a range of baskets and a are living auction. Raffle tickets will be marketed just before the concert and at intermission. Winners will be chosen through the next half of the live performance and live auction goods will also be auctioned off then.
Doorways open at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the indoor theater of the Edward Simonsen Carrying out Arts Centre on the Panorama campus, 1801 Panorama Travel.
While tickets are offered-out for an optional preshow live performance, attendees will be equipped to purchase hot dogs and other concessions these types of as sweet bars, chips and h2o starting up at 6 p.m.
Parking for this occasion will be in the solar panel parking large amount on Panorama Generate and Mount Vernon Avenue.
If you are not able to show up at the live performance, donations can also be built to the Choral Audio Fund at the BC Basis at supportbc.org/donate.
Stefani Dias can be reached at 661-395-7488. Follow her on Twitter at @realstefanidias.
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