$175.00
- Tuesdays January 5-March 9 for Winter 2027
- $175
- Northampton, MA
- To add additional family members, go here.
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Description
As we take in the news each day, it is easy to feel helpless. What are we supposed to do? As singers, we have long understood that each member of the choir has a job to do, a note to sing. Sometimes you stagger your breathing so the sound of the choir can continue without interruption. But it takes many voices to achieve that! As we wonder what our role is in fighting the power, we’ve decided that at least ONE thing we can do is to bring people together to sing––to remind each other that we are not alone in this. So let’s sing together. Let’s sing songs of hope, of power, of suffering, of love, of change, of community.
-Nerissa and Katryna Nields, co-directors
Our mission for the Welcome Chorus is to teach and sing songs from the folk tradition plus our favorite songs from 20th and 21st C pop/rock/indie/
This chorus is aimed at adults who like to sing. Youth under 14 must be supervised by a parent or have permission from the instructors. No need to read music, but sheet music will usually be provided. We learn some songs by ear, others will have written parts. Tuition includes a songbook with lyrics. To complete your registration, after purchasing this item up, go here to fill out a short questionnaire.
Rehearsals take place on Tuesdays evenings- 7:00-8:30 PM January 5-March 2 2027 We will be ending our session with a performance on March 9. We meet at First Churches’ Lyman Auditorium on the corner of Center Street and Main Street in Northampton MA. For more information, write to . Registration is complete once this form has been filled out and payment is made. To add additional family members, go here.
Here are some of the songs we have sung in The Welcome Chorus:
-Crowded Table (The Highwomen)
-The Times They Are A’Changin’ (Bob Dylan)
-There Is More Love (Traditional)
-Dreams (the cranberries)
-Helpless (Neil Young with CSN)
-Don’t Carry It All (Decemberists)
-Sylvie (Huddie Ledbetter)
-Landslide (Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac/The Chicks)
-Ohio, (Neil Young with CSN)
-Welcome Table, traditional
-Many Rivers to Cross, Jimmy Cliff
-Everybody, Ingrid Michaelson-One Day (Matisyahu)
-Home, Phillip Phillips
-Bella Ciao, traditional
-Closer to Fine, Indigo Girls
-Landslide, Fleetwood Mac/The Chicks
-Ohio-Neil Young and CSN
-Bread and Roses, Oppenheimer/Fariña
-Nothing More (the Alternate Routes)
People Get Ready, Curtis Mayfield
-The Parting Glass, traditional
-You and Me on the Rock, Brandi Carlile
-Lovely Day, Bill Withers
On Our Wish List:
-With a Little Help from my Friends (Lennon/McCartney)
-What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)
-Wagon Wheel (Dylan, Old Crow Medicine Show)
-Somewhere Only We Know (Keane)
-Guantanamera, traditional
-We Know the Way, from Mo’ana
-God Only Knows (the Beach Boys)
-I Can See Clearly Now
-After the Gold Rush, Neil Young (Trio version)
