PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Friends Meeting will host a benefit concert featuring local singer Sigrid Cummings and the Singers in the Rain men’s chorus at 7 tonight.
The concert will be at the Friends Meetinghouse at 1841 Sheridan St.
It is a benefit to raise money for the loan on the Friends Meetinghouse.
A donation of $5 to $20 is suggested but no one will be turned away.
A dessert social starts at 6:30 p.m. with the concert at 7 p.m.
Cummings has spent much of her life singing in choirs, most recently with the Tacoma Symphony Chorus, but also the Port Townsend Community Chorus and RainShadow Chorale.
Her solo experience comprises song in church, jamming with her Blues buddies, and in Centrum’s Gospel Choir.
Her first love is the music from the “Golden Age” and from musicals, she said.
She was invited to work with Hazel Johnson, musical director and pianist, and Sydney Keegan, vocal instructor, on this concert of quintessential standards including such songs as “Dancing in the Dark,” “Autumn Leaves” and “Somewhere.”
Singers in the Rain, the men’s ensemble, will sing during the second half of the concert.
They will reprise close harmony songs from their last season, including barbershop harmony.
The group is now in its ninth season and includes men who are just starting out in their journey with song and many others who return each season to learn and perform.
Familiar songs on the night’s playlist are “I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now” and “Baby Face.”
Diane Thompson will be the group’s pianist.
For more information, contact Hazel Johnson at 360-385-6000.
