poems and songs from the December "Before Solstice" service

Recordings of poems and songs from the December 2, 2018 "Before Solstice" service have been added to the BUF Blog under "you tube videos and audio of our songs", and a direct link to the audio files via google drive is here.

Enjoy!

videos from the Interfaith Coalition Music Festival

Videos of Jai Ho and One Day have been added to the BUF Choir blog and links to them are also below. Enjoy!

Jai Ho - BUF Chalice Choir - Interfaith Coalition Music Festival - 2019
One Day - Interfaith Coalition Music Festival - 2019
Adhan Khaled - Interfaith Coalition Music Festival

The upcoming week

Dear BUF Chalice Choir

 

Thanks to everyone who made all these recent BUF music events a success

    Dec 2 – Before Solstice, the poems and songs of Rick Hermann

    Dec 9 – RE Pageant: Tani’s Search for the Heart

    Dec 16 – Bach’s Wachet Auf

    Dec 24 – Christmas Eve Service

    January 15 – Willamette University Concert

 

Genia and I are grateful to belong to the engaged and engaging community at BUF!

We were able travel in Chile for a long time without any concern about keeping the home fires burning.  We would like to share our trip with all interested people next Wednesday in a short slide show in the BUF Sanctuary before dinner:

The End of the Rainbow in Chile

25 Days in Chile in 25 pictures in 25 minutes

5:25pm, Wednesday, January 23, 2019

 

This Sunday, January 20, we will rehearse Ella’s Song at 9:30am.

Thanks to Tessie for teaching and directing this fun song!

Links to YouTube recordings of this song came to you in the previous email :)

Please wear solid blue (any shade) on top and black on bottom.

 

Monday, January 21 we will sing Ella’s Song again for the MLK event starting at 7pm.

Please arrive at 6:30pm to rehearse.

 

This is the order of the MLK program:

6:45pm            Peter Ali “pre show flute music.”

7:07pm            Amanda thanks everyone for coming and intros William

William             Nooksack song

Joshua             Lummi song

Checo             “Everyday People” BUF choir dances up during this song

BUF Choir         Ella’s Song

Terrance          talk

Checo            “Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me around”

Edgar            talk

Checo            “People get Ready”

Christelle         talk

Open Mic.          3 minutes each.

Checo closes     “Love Train”.

 

After BUF has sung, you are free to leave whenever you need to, but you'll want to stay to hear Tracy Spring and friends sing her new hit "Your Heart Is A Muscle the Size of a Fist"

 

See ya,

Kevin

 

Sing with Tracy Spring on Jan. 21

Local composer Tracy Spring is debuting at least part of a new choral arrangement of Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist at the Co-op sponsored Martin Luther King Day celebration at BUF on Monday, January 21st starting at 7pm.  Email her at azizspring@aol.com if you want to give the SATB sheet music a try! She will send you a .pdf of the latest version. There are also sectional mixes of audio files available for those who prefer to learn by rote.

There will be a run-through of the piece somewhere in the building on the day of, at 6:15 pm, hopefully in the Sanctuary with Karen FitzGerald on piano (who is performing with Tracy), but if that space is not available for the run-through, probably downstairs.