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Concert Blocks

Most choruses will be performing traditional 30 minute set concert blocks which will be running concurrently in all three concert halls. Ensembles will be performing in multiple locations throughout Festival. Festival will also be featuring Coffee Concerts and evening Blockbuster Performances.

Morning Coffee Concerts!

A new feature of Festival 2012 includes a limited number of late-morning Coffee Concerts performed in the primary concert halls to allow flexibility for choruses that would like a longer performance set and/or utilize more complicated staging or instrumentation. Coffee and light breakfast foods will be sold in the lobby before each concert.

The morning coffee concerts will include the following:

Men Alive: "VonTrapped", A Musical Tribute to “The Sound of Music

Sound Circle: Path of Beauty: Singing the Grand Canyon

Portland Gay Men’s Chorus: The Young Person's Guide to the Gay Men's Chorus

Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus: Out of my Range (and Other Age-Related Performance Issues)

MUSE Cincinnati’s Women’s Choir: a thirty-year retrospective of women’s music

Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC: Alexander's House, a new commission for men's chorus, actor-singers, dancers and chamber ensemble

Heartland Men’s Chorus: When I Knew featuring touching moments when we "knew" that we were gay









Collaborations and Shared Concert Sets
We hope to encourage collaborations between choirs as a part of Festival 2012. For example, several choruses have requested back-to-back concert sets in order to collaborate with another chorus or perform a joint song together.

Coffee Cup Photo by Iván Rodríguez Fernández