PORT TOWNSEND — The Fort Bend Boys Choir, a 38-voice touring choir based in Sugar Land, Texas, is coming to town for a “Candlelight Concert” on Thursday.
The choir, composed of boys age 9 to 14, will fill Trinity United Methodist Church with song — from Mozart to folk tunes — at 7 p.m.
Doors will open at 6:30 p.m., and admission to the performance at 609 Taylor St. uptown will be a $10 donation for adults, with children admitted free.
Refreshments will be served after the music.
As with each of the monthly Candlelight Concerts, proceeds go toward a charity effort; this time, it’s Trinity United’s 2014 mission trip to the Maua Methodist Hospital in Kenya.
The Fort Bend Boys Choir was founded in 1985, and has since sent young singers on tours of the United States and Europe, including a tour last year to France’s Loire Valley, Dordogne and Basque regions and to Normandy and Paris.
On the current tour of Washington state, the boy choir’s repertoire includes Mozart’s “Jubilate Deo” (“O be joyful in the Lord”); Bach’s “Ave Maria” and “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”; Handel’s “Sing with Pleasure”; the spiritual “Keep Your Lamps”; and folk songs like Brendan and Alana Graham’s “My Land.”
For more about the Fort Bend Boys Choir, visit www.FBBCtx.org.
For details about the Candlelight Concert series, phone 360-774-1644.
