PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Friends Meeting will continue its roster of benefit concerts at 7 p.m. Saturday with the singing of the Port Townsend Youth Chorus, a troupe of 25 students age 7 and older.
Fundraiser
The concert is a benefit to raise money for the loan on the Friends Meetinghouse.
A dessert social is planned at 7 p.m. and music at 7:30 p.m.
Organizers ask a donation of $5 to $50, but no one will be turned away from the Meetinghouse, 1841 Sheridan St.
The evening’s music will include folk tunes (“The Ash Grove,” “Danny Boy”), well-known songs (Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” the Beatles’ “Blackbird”) and traditional concert repertoire (“Cantate Domino”), according to a news release.
The Port Townsend Youth Chorus is led by local teacher and performer Leslie Lewis, the chorus director since 1995.
The choirs manage the rigors of performing for the public and also continuously learn the skills of reading music, developing harmony singing, exploring new styles of music, observing performance ritual and etiquette, and most of all developing a love of the art form and how to work as an artistic team, organizers said.
Two separate choirs
The group rehearses in two separate choirs by age level, the younger singers aged 6 to 10 and the older students 10 and older.
Singers come from all local private and public schools as well as home-schooled students.
The chorus will be joined by accompanist Diane Thompson on piano.
For information, contact Hazel Johnson at 360-385-6000.
