BRATTLEBORO-Brattleboro Harmonia (formerly the Brattleboro Women’s Chorus) will present Ring Out, Wild Bells Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 21 and 22, at 4 p.m. at the Brattleboro Music Center, 72 Blanche Moyse Way.
The concert will bring together more than 90 singers “raising their voices in harmony to celebrate renewal in the dark part of the year” under the direction of Anna Patton, organizers said in a news release. Cathy Martin will accompany on piano and Valerie Thompson on cello.
The program will include the song “Ring Out, Wild Bells,” which is based on an 1850 poem of mourning by Alfred, Lord Tennyson that folk quartet Rani Arbo and daisy mayhem set to music in 2016.
Also on the program are Bernice Johnson Reagon’s “Give Your Hands to Struggle,” “Goldenrod Round” by folk artist Anni Zylstra, and the premiere of a new song, “Mind’s Eye,” composed by Patton.
“This fall, we have been singing about big themes of struggle and solidarity” alongside more mundane aspects of everyday life, Patton said in the news release, adding that “community singing can help us hold both of these perspectives with gentleness and resolve.”
Tickets are available on a sliding scale from $20 to $50 at BrattleboroHarmonia.org/concerts.
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