Celebrate Folk Songs!

A Message from Music Director Fred Graham

The folk song can invoke many moods and many styles of music. 
On March 11 the Chorale will present a wide range of folk music that represents the cultures of Europe and the Americas with music from Serbia, the British Isles, and North, Central, and South America.

The inspiration for the concert is Cecilia McDowall’s celebration of British folk music in her A Fancy of Folksongs. This four-part work reflects love and courtship. McDowall notes, “The word ‘fancy’ features frequently in the vocabulary of young lovers. For me, it calls to mind Elizabethan times, when courtship rituals were the fashion and when the Fancy (the Fantasy) was a popular musical form.” It is just one of the works to show off our accompanist Deborah Wagner.

We are grateful to collaborate with Southwest Arts in presenting this program.

Tickets for Fancy Folk Songs are $25 Adults; $20 Seniors, and $5 Students online or at the door. Online tickets can be ordered below. Please note that masks suggested for all attendees.

I so enjoyed leading this group for the past five years in sharing beautiful music with you. We do hope to see you for this my last concert with the Sangre de Chorale.

Fred Graham, Music Director

Singer Sidebars, Virtual Concerts, and Musical Works in Progress enabled us to stay in touch with our audiences while we could not perform in person. The entire archive is available here.

The mission of the Sangre de Cristo Chorale is to entertain, educate, unite, and inspire singers and audiences by performing quality choral music.