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Spring 2023: Love Your Mother! Celebrating and Nurturing our Mother Earth. Three performances this spring! |
Our spring theme is Love Your Mother (Earth)!
The beginning of our program will highlight music that expresses love for the earth in our hearts - appreciation, reflection, connection, joy. The second half will feature music that expresses our love for the earth in action - doing, moving, making change.
The beginning of our program will highlight music that expresses love for the earth in our hearts - appreciation, reflection, connection, joy. The second half will feature music that expresses our love for the earth in action - doing, moving, making change.
Womansong, Asheville’s longest-running women’s community chorus, invites you to our spring concert, “Love Your Mother!" Under the direction of Artistic Director Dr. Allison Thorpe, along with Assistant Director Claire Lemke and former Director Althea Gonzalez, this concert will focus on songs celebrating and caring for Mother Earth.
We are embracing the beauty of our world in this concert with tributes to our planet, including the songs, Mini Wiconi (Water is Life) and What a Wonderful World; fun songs (you know we always have fun): Compost and My Salsa Garden; and songs that call us to action: most notably, a beautiful new arrangement of Carrie Newcomer's If Not Now, and the world premiere of Lytingale's inspiring composition,Together We Can Change the World (which will later be performed by a mass choir at Sister Singers Network Festival in Cleveland.) Composers include Joni Mitchell, Elise Witt, Vida, and many others. You definitely will want to be in the room for this concert.
Lytingale, Georgia Pressman, Jane Snyder, Sarah Rubin, and Linda Shew Wolf will accompany the choir on piano, flute, violin, sax, and a variety of percussion instruments. And for this concert, we welcome several new singers to our village. (Come sing with us !)
From choral anthems to contemporary pop tunes, there’s something for everyone -- music to make you laugh, cry, and dance.
We are embracing the beauty of our world in this concert with tributes to our planet, including the songs, Mini Wiconi (Water is Life) and What a Wonderful World; fun songs (you know we always have fun): Compost and My Salsa Garden; and songs that call us to action: most notably, a beautiful new arrangement of Carrie Newcomer's If Not Now, and the world premiere of Lytingale's inspiring composition,Together We Can Change the World (which will later be performed by a mass choir at Sister Singers Network Festival in Cleveland.) Composers include Joni Mitchell, Elise Witt, Vida, and many others. You definitely will want to be in the room for this concert.
Lytingale, Georgia Pressman, Jane Snyder, Sarah Rubin, and Linda Shew Wolf will accompany the choir on piano, flute, violin, sax, and a variety of percussion instruments. And for this concert, we welcome several new singers to our village. (Come sing with us !)
From choral anthems to contemporary pop tunes, there’s something for everyone -- music to make you laugh, cry, and dance.
Masks are required and will be available for audience members.
ASHEVILLE:
Friday, May 26 - 7:30pm
Saturday, May 27 - 3pm
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville
One Edwin Place
Asheville, NC 28801
Tickets: $20 +tax/fees
Kids 12 and under: free with a paying adult
Ticket links are active through May 25.
Tickets will also be available at the door.
Masks are required and will be available for audience members.
A Special Community Concert
generously sponsored by
First Congregational Church
introducing Womansong to Hendersonville:
HENDERSONVILLE:
Saturday, May 20 - 3pm
First Congregational Church
1735 Fifth Avenue West
Hendersonville, NC 28739
(Free, public show)
Masks are optional for audience members, but appreciated and highly encouraged.
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Artistic Director, Dr. Allison Thorp, will be joined by Assistant Director Claire Lemke. Former Womansong director Althea Gonzalez will join them as guest conductor. |
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Womansong concerts are accessible to the hearing impaired through music sign language interpretation by Shiner Antiorio.
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Womansong celebrates the unity, diversity, and empowerment of women through musical expression, as we sing for Joy, social justice, and community. Our concerts help fund the operation of our nonprofit organization including the choir’s New Start Program, which provides scholarships and emergency funds to local women in need.
- Doors open for seating 1/2 hour before concert start time. (7:00 for evening; 2:30 for afternoon) (Wheelchair or walker may be admitted first - ask the usher.)
- All seating is general admission.
- Please carpool if possible. (Asheville: Limited handicapped parking in UUCA lot on Bond Street.)
Tickets for Asheville shows:
$20 for adults (and children over 12) (plus tax & a small ticketing fee)
NEW POLICY: Children 12 and under: free with a paying adult.
$20 for adults (and children over 12) (plus tax & a small ticketing fee)
NEW POLICY: Children 12 and under: free with a paying adult.
Please see our Covid policy below.
Tickets are non-refundable... but if your plans change:
Tickets are non-refundable... but if your plans change:
- You can give/trade them to a friend (send by email or print & give them the confirmation).
- Resell them: go to TIXEL, Eventbrite's official resale partner, to safely sell your ticket to another fan. (No, we can't do it for you!)
- Tickets will be sold ONLINE until 24 hours before concert.
- IF we are not sold out, a limited number of Tickets might be available for sale at the DOOR, one hour before show time: cash, check, or credit card.
- You can NOT change the date of your ticket! (No, we can't do it either!)
This link to purchase tickets (through Eventbrite) is now active.
All audience members must agree to abide by our Covid policy! Thank you for your cooperation.
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Important: COVID Policy:
The health and safety of everyone is our top priority.
For admission to the Asheville concerts, please bring:
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RAFFLE!
At the concert, we'll hold a Raffle of a variety of awesome goodies and services to benefit Womansong's New Start Fund. This year's raffle will have a special feature: From Womansong With Love items - services and works of art created by Womansong members! Raffle tickets: $5 a ticket or 5 tickets for $20 - by cash or check or credit card! 
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