PORT TOWNSEND — The 15th Fort Worden Children’s Choir Festival Concert, with 110 young singers, will be presented at 3 p.m. Saturday.
The concert will be at McCurdy Pavilion, Fort Worden State Park.
Admission is $15 for adults and $12 for students. Tickets are available at the door starting an hour before the concert.
Founded in 2000, the Fort Worden Children’s Choir Festival brings together some of the children’s choirs from throughout the region and the West Coast for a two-day event each Memorial Day weekend.
This year’s festival conductor is children’s choir director Angela Broeker from University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn.
Two choirs
Two Puget Sound-area choir organizations make up this year’s festival choir.
This year’s choristers come from Northwest Girl choir, Seattle, directed by Sara Boos, and Spectrum Choral Academy, Gig Harbor, directed by Stephanie Charbonneau.
Each choir works throughout the year on selected festival music as well as songs to present individually during the concert.
This year’s festival music will feature all 110 singers performing Broeker’s rendition of “In These Delightful Pleasant Groves” by Purcell and an arrangement of “Peace Like a River,” created by Jay Broeker, Broeker’s husband.
The concert also will premiere a setting of “Two Bobobo Songs” — music from Ghana, arranged by Karen Howard.
Three local instrumentalists will be joining the singers on stage for this concert: Julie Cole Mandery, festival accompanist from Port Orchard; Madelyn Kowalski, cellist; and Kate Powers, violinist.
Today and Saturday will be filled with joint rehearsals under Broeker’s baton.
For more information, go to www.fortwordenfestival.com.
