12th Night with Children’s Choir

COLCHESTER — The Essex Children’s Choir will present its 25th 12th Night Celebration, on Saturday, Jan. 7, at 6:30 p.m., at the Chapel of  Saint Michael the Archangel, at Saint Michael’s College. Twelfth Night Celebration commemorates the visit of the Magi to Bethlehem with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, bringing to close the 12 days of Christmas. The message of peace and good will shall ring through a collaboration of artistry in music, dance, and prose.
The message of Christmas will be re-told through choral literature by G.F. Handel, Benjamin Britten, Harry T. Burleigh, John Rutter, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and carols of African-American, Dutch, English, German and Japanese traditions. Joining the choir in a collaboration of Vermont artists are Heidi Soons, harp; Wayne Hobbs, tenor; Benjamin Dickerson, baritone; Full Circle, recorder consort; Susan Summerfield, organ; the Wheeler Trombone Quartet; Grady Shea, reader; and the  Adirondack Ballet Liturgical Dance Ensemble from Plattsburgh, N.Y.
For information, call (802) 863-9161 or go online to www.essexchildrenschoirofvermont.org.