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Mar
14
Sat
All Night Vigil @ St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Mar 14 @ 7:30 pm
All Night Vigil  @ St. Paul's Episcopal Church | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Please join the Bellingham Chamber Chorale as we continue our “Heading East” 2014-2015 concert season! This March, our selection comes to you from Russia – Rachmaninoff’s monumental All-Night Vigil, traditionally accompanying the Eastern Orthodox Church service of the same name. This monumental 15-movement work encompasses Rachmaninoff’s Vespers and Matins.

You can order tickets online at brownpapertickets.com or pick them up in person at Piper Music, both Food Co-Op locations, Village Books and Time Keepers in Lynden.

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Mar
15
Sun
All Night Vigil @ Salem Lutheran Church
Mar 15 @ 3:00 pm
All Night Vigil  @ Salem Lutheran Church | Mount Vernon | Washington | United States

Please join the Bellingham Chamber Chorale as we continue our “Heading East” 2014-2015 concert season! This March, our selection comes to you from Russia – Rachmaninoff’s monumental All-Night Vigil, traditionally accompanying the Eastern Orthodox Church service of the same name. This monumental 15-movement work encompasses Rachmaninoff’s Vespers and Matins.

Tickets available online and at Gretchen’s Kitchen and Skagit Valley Co-Op.

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Mar
26
Sat
2nd Annual Bham Fam Fair @ Bellingham Sportsplex
Mar 26 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Families get a full day of entertainment, free with event admission, including local favorites Zig Zag N Ragz Z Clowns (performing silly magic at 10:15 a.m.), live music from Seattle kindie rockers, the Not-Its! (playing at noon), plus bounce castles, crafts, ice skating, and much more!

Food trucks will be outside the Sportsplex entry for food and drink purchases. We’ll have Burgers, Pizza, Fish & Chips, Ice Cream, Kettle Corn, and more!

$1 from every ticket goes to Communities in School, helping to keep kids in school and give them the skills they need to succeed in life.

Bham Fam Fair is brought to you by Bellingham Families Magazine, in partnership with our sponsors.

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Nov
17
Thu
Wine, Women & Song @ Lairmont Manor
Nov 17 @ 7:30 pm
Wine, Women & Song @ Lairmont Manor | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Join Allegra Women’s Ensemble and the Whatcom Sound Jazz Singers for their annual musical benefit at the elegant Lairmont Manor. Doors open at 7:00pm with music by Hadassah McGill.

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Nov
29
Wed
Wine, Women and Song @ Lairmont Manor
Nov 29 @ 7:30 pm
Wine, Women and Song @ Lairmont Manor | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Warm up your holiday season with an evening of “Wine, Women & Song.” Join Allegra Women’s Ensemble directed by Dr.Timothy Black and Whatcom Sound Jazz Singers directed by Michael-Paul Gurulé for an intimate evening of sparkling music, delicious light hors d’oeuvres, fine wine  and delightful company. $25. Donation includes one complimentary glass of wine. Tickets in advance at Brown Paper Tickets- “Wine, Women and Song,” any singer or at the door. Doors open at 7:00 p.m.

 

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Jun
3
Sun
Whatcom Chorale: “Bach and Forward” @ First Congregational Church of Bellingham
Jun 3 @ 3:00 pm

Whatcom Chorale, led by Deborah L. Brown, Artistic Director and Conductor, offers “Bach and Forward”— works by two very different Bachs! Refresh your spirit with the beauty of J. S. Bach’s “Jesu, meine Freude” (Jesus, my joy) and “Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf” (The Spirit gives aid to our weakness), and then laugh at P.D.Q. Bach’s “Liebeslieder Polkas,” a satirical homage to the romantic Brahms by the elder Bach’s “only forgotten son.”

Tickets available: (1) online at Brown Paper Tickets; (2) starting three weeks before the concert, at both locations of the Community Food Co-op and Village Books; and (3) at the door. Adults $20, Students/Seniors (65+) $15, Children (under 18) $5.

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Jun
2
Sun
Whatcom Chorale: “The Grand and the Intimate” @ Church of the Assumption (Bellingham)
Jun 2 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Whatcom Chorale: “The Grand and the Intimate” @ Church of the Assumption (Bellingham)

Whatcom Chorale and Whatcom Sinfonia present the premiere of Scott Henderson’s evocative new song cycle, “Ordinary Prayers,” and two works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — the “Coronation” Mass, K. 317 and “Vesperae solennes de confessore,” K. 339, which includes the beautiful “Laudate dominum.”

Tickets are available at the door and online through Brown Paper Tickets, and starting three weeks before the concert, at both Community Food Co-ops (Bellingham and Cordata), and at Village Books (Fairhaven and Lynden). Adult $20, Senior (65+)/Student $15, Under18 $5.

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Feb
23
Sun
Interfaith Coalition Music Festival @ First Congregational Church
Feb 23 @ 3:00 pm

Join us for an eclectic and uplifting program of spiritual music from diverse congregations throughout Whatcom County, ending with an exuberant finale involving all singers with the audience! A Bellingham tradition for many years, this concert showcases diverse choral and instrumental music, and usually attracts a full house. Adding to individual selections by choirs ranging from intimate to majestic, the grand finale will be the 200-voice festival choir singing “Bright Morning Stars Are Rising,” an Appalachian hymn of hope and promise. Interfaith Coalition is a group of 40 Whatcom County congregations working together to end family homelessness in Whatcom County. An opportunity to donate will be available.

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Dec
2
Fri
Sea & Stars VOX PACIFICA joins CHOIR OF THE SALISH SEA @ First Congregational Church
Dec 2 @ 7:30 pm
Sea & Stars VOX PACIFICA joins CHOIR OF THE SALISH SEA @ First Congregational Church

Combining for the first time, VOX PACIFICA and CHOIR OF THE SALISH SEA will be presenting a theme of powerful music about the ocean and universe by many talented composers, on Friday, Dec 2nd, 7:30pm and Saturday, Dec 3rd at 3 pm. at the acoustically delightful First Congregational Church, 2401 Cornwall, Bellingham.
Tickets are available online at our website, voxpacifica.org/events , at Village Books and the door. General audience price is $20, students 12 yrs and under, $10.

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Dec
9
Fri
Whatcom Chorale – Messiah @ Mount Baker Theatre
Dec 9 @ 7:00 pm
Whatcom Chorale - Messiah @ Mount Baker Theatre

Opening our 2022–2023 season of live concerts, Whatcom Chorale and Sinfonia return to the Mt. Baker Theatre with a powerful and uplifting presentation of George Frideric Handel’s Messiah! Messiah stands as a pinnacle of choral composition, overshadowing virtually everything else the baroque master wrote during his fifty-year career. In 280 years of presentations by all manner of ensembles, grandiose, intimate, professional, and improvised, this glorious work has retained its popularity and quite possibly ranks as the most performed piece of classical music in history.

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May
19
Fri
Choir of the Salish Sea presents Galbraith Mountain @ Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship
May 19 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Choir of the Salish Sea presents Galbraith Mountain @ Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship

Singing the World into Balance
Bellingham’s premiere tenor/bass choir presents a musical montage to a mountain bike and trail running mecca. The driving rhythms and lofty harmonies of their singing reflect the energy and camaraderie of the mountain that brings the world to Bellingham.

Songs include: Bicycle Race (Queen), White Winter Hymnal (Pentatonix),
Here Comes the Sun (Beatles), Seven Bridges Road (The Eagles) and songs from BRAVEHEART, CHARIOTS OF FIRE, LION KING, TARZAN and THE HOBBIT

Prizes from local bike and running shops and clubs to be raffled off at each concert.
Ticket holders are automatically entered into the raffle. Must be present to win..

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May
20
Sat
Kulshan Chorus: Considering Matthew Shepard @ Mount Baker Theatre @ Mount Baker Theatre
May 20 @ 7:30 pm
Kulshan Chorus: Considering Matthew Shepard @ Mount Baker Theatre @ Mount Baker Theatre

In October of 1998, Matthew Shepard, a young gay student at the University of Wyoming in Laramie was kidnapped, severely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die in a lonely field under a blanket of stars. Five days later, when Matt passed away, the world was watching. Approaching the eve of the 20th anniversary, Craig Hella Johnson has responded with his first concert-length work, Considering Matthew Shepard.

This three-part fusion oratorio speaks with a fresh and bold voice, incorporating a variety of musical styles seamlessly woven into a unified whole. Johnson sets a wide range of soulful texts by poets including Hildegard of Bingen, Lesléa Newman, Michael Dennis Browne, and Rumi. Passages from Matt’s personal journal, interviews and writings from his parents Judy and Dennis Shepard, newspaper reports and additional texts by Johnson and Browne are poignantly appointed throughout the work.

Considering Matthew Shepard joins the ranks of many significant artistic responses to Matthew Shepard’s legacy. Most noteworthy is The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and the members of the Tectonic Theater Project, which has been seen by more than 30 million people. Jason Marsden, Executive Director of the Matthew Shepard Foundation calls Considering Matthew Shepard “by far the most intricate, beautiful, and unyielding artistic response to this notorious anti-gay hate crime.”

Matthew Shepard’s story must never be forgotten.

—Craig Hella Johnson, Composer

This is an independent event promoted by a renter of the facility. Any comments or opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of Mount Baker Theatre.

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