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2009-2010 Season

CELTIC VOYAGES CONCERT AND CD RELEASE

Join us at St Leo Church in historic Merion Village, Columbus, for one last chance to hear our popular Celtic music program, as we celebrate the release of our new Celtic Voyages CD, recorded at St Leo in May and June 2009. The program is a feast of traditional songs from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Appalachia.

Friday September 25, 2009, 8:00 pm
St Leo Church, 224 Hanford St, Columbus map
http://www.savesaintleo.org/

Admission free, donations to the St Leo Organ Restoration Fund
CDs will be available, suggested donation $15 per CD

WITH SWEET REJOICING

This year�s Christmas program includes traditional songs, renaissance repertoire, and contemporary music from the Baltic, the British Isles, central Europe, Nigeria, and the USA. Featuring Latvian and Celtic carols, renaissance masterpieces by Monteverdi, Dufay, and Praetorius, music by Veljo Tormis and Morton Lauridsen, plus well known carols for all to join in singing.

Sunday December 6, 2009, 4 pm
St James� Episcopal Church, 155 N 6th St, Zanesville map
Admission free, donations accepted

Friday December 11, 2009, 8 pm
St James� Episcopal Church, 3400 Calumet St, Clintonville map
Admission free, donations accepted

Saturday December 12, 2009, 7:30 pm
St John�s Episcopal Church, 700 High St, Worthington map
Admission free, donations accepted

Sunday December 13, 2009, 6 pm
St Francis of Assisi Church, 386 Buttles Ave, Columbus map
Also featuring the choir of St Francis.
Admission free, donations accepted.

In Magpie tradition, one of our Christmas collections will be donated in its entirety to a local charity.

Our new compact disk - Celtic Voyages - (ideal Christmas present!) will be available at all our Christmas performances, and can also be ordered here.

IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD

A Lenten hour of Early American and Folk Hymns

Tuesday March 9, 2010, 7:00 pm
Trinity Episcopal Church, 75 E Main Street, Newark map
Psalm settings, Shaker tunes, music in the shape note tradition, and folk hymns

GYPSIES & SAILORS

Songs of travel, exploration, pilgrimage, exile, escape, and the journey of life itself - featuring sea shanties, medieval pilgrim dances, spirituals, songs from China, the Faeroe Islands, and South Africa, excerpts from Brahms' Zigeunerlieder (Gypsy Songs), and finally a voyage along the Milky Way, in the form of Dream Songs by Sheena Phillips.

Saturday April 10, 2010, 1 pm (PREVIEW of limited selections)
Columbus Main Library, 96 S Grant Ave, Columbus map
Admission free

Friday May 14, 2010, 8 pm
King Avenue United Methodist Church, 299 King Avenue, Columbus map
Admission free, suggested donation $10

Saturday May 15, 2010, 8 pm
Trinity Episcopal Church, 125 E Broad Street, Columbus map
Admission free, suggested donation $10

Sunday May 16, 2010, 4 pm
Redeemer Lutheran Church, 1555 S. James Rd., Columbus map
Admission free, suggested donation $10

Saturday September 25, 2010, 8 pm
St. Leo Church, 221 Hanford St., Columbus map
Admission free, suggested donation $10

Our Gypsies & Sailors program is generously supported by the Greater Columbus Arts Council

EXTRA! EXTRA!

ALL ABOARD FOR HAITI!

A benefit concert for Haiti, featuring the Magpie Consort, the Kata Bomba Drummers, the Capriccio! vocal ensemble, a Complaints Choir (read on!), and The Ohio State University African American Voices Gospel Choir, in a great program of sea shanties, Haitian drumming, spirituals, gospel songs, and and a new piece specially composed for Columbus's first 'complaints choir' - don't miss!

Saturday June 5, 2010, 7:00 pm , 7:00 pm
First Congregational Church, 444 E Broad Street, Columbus map

Admission free. Donations to benefit Habit for Humanity Haiti Relief