BRATTLEBORO-On Tuesday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m., the Latchis Theatre will ring again with the sounds of Sing Nowell: Songs & Carols for Midwinter & Christmastide.
This is the third year of the community celebration bringing together Andy Davis and Fred Breunig of Nowell Sing We Clear, the vocal ensemble Windborne (Lauren Breunig, Jeremy Carter-Gordon, Lynn Rowan, and Will Rowan) as well as an ensemble of Arthur Davis, Emma Schneider, Guillaume Sparrow-Pepin, and Laurel Swift.
Tickets are available at tinyurl.com/SingNowell2024. Those unable to attend in person will be able to tune in on a livestream feed and make a donation online. Groundworks Collaborative, which assists people experiencing housing and food insecurity, will again be the beneficiary of the concert proceeds.
Andy Davis and Breunig are well-known figures in the Brattleboro traditional music scene, having played together for 30 years in Nowell Sing We Clear. They are also contra and square dance callers and musicians. Andy hosts the Village Dance Series in Dummerston and Guilford. Both are also active in the music program of Guilford Community Church.
Windborne will have already started its Music of Midwinter tour on Thanksgiving weekend and will be in good voice for Brattleboro. During the last year, members toured internationally - including a month in Australia - as well as across the U.S.
On stage again this year is Arthur Davis, a Brattleboro native, singer, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist who revels in building community connections; Schneider, who sings locally with the Brattleboro Camerata, West Willow Octet, and Hallowell, as well as nightly on the lullaby circuit; and Guillaume Sparrow-Pepin of Westminster, an accordionist and vocalist rooted in folk and world music, and member of the folk trio Nova, who performs across New England and beyond.
Swift, a UK native now living in Brattleboro, is a musician, a dancer, and an instigator of creative new projects and performances rooted in the folk arts. A vocalist, double-bass player, and clogger, she performs with her U.K. band, Gadarene.
Featured at the sales table at the concert will be Windborne's new seasonal album and book, To Warm the Winter Hearth, just delivered after a successful crowdfunding campaign. Also available will be Nowell Sing We Clear Songs & Carols for Midwinter & Christmastide, the songbook containing more than 100 songs of the group's repertoire. Look also for many other recordings from all of the performers.
For wheelchair-accessible seating at the Latchis Theatre, e-mail Jon Potter at [email protected] or call 802-254-1109, ext. 3. For more information about the Sing Nowell concert, call 802-254-9019 or email Fred Breunig at [email protected].
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