August 20, 2009
Gotta sing? UW Women’s Choir seeking members again
Faculty and staff women who like to sing are again being offered a chance to be part of a choir that practices once a week and performs several times a year.
Last year, director Jean-Marie Kent opened up the UW Women’s Choir, which had previously been nearly all students, to interested faculty and staff. More than 50 women answered the call, and the year went so well that Kent hopes more women will join this year. (See our earlier story about the choir here.)
Last year, Kent said, the Women’s Choir sang carols from the winter season at Meany Theater and at Seattle Center. They collaborated with Mirinesse and St. Mark’s Women’s Choir in a benefit concert for Noel House, a women’s shelter. They sang the national anthem at a UW women’s basketball game and they sang with Oregon State University and Ballard High School Women’s Choirs.
“The concerts were an excellent way for us to establish ourselves while making connections with other women’s groups,” Kent said.
This year the choir plans to embark on its first “dialogue” concert, in which women from within the choir and from collaborating community organizations will have a chance to share what “home” is. That concert will be in March.
To join the choir or to find out more about it, contact Kent at jmkmusic@u.washington.edu.
