Wintersongs

with Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble

http://www.kitka.org/features/wintersongs.html

http://www.kitka.org/calendar/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amvVVA5LixY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUcmkZwdpag

Saturday, December 13, 8:00PM

Holy Cross Church, 126 High Street, Santa Cruz

$20

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/872138

http://www.holycrosssantacruz.com

Sunday, December 14, 4:00PM

St. Bede’s Church, 2650 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park

$30

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/872124

http://stbedesmenlopark.org

Friday, December 19, 8:00 PM

St. Paul’s Church, 114 Montecito Avenue, Oakland

$20

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/872130

http://www.stpaulsoakland.org

Saturday, December 20, 8:00 PM

Old First Church, 1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco

$20 advance, $25 at the door

http://www.oldfirstconcerts.org/performances/638

“Wintersongs is Kitka’s critically-acclaimed and wildly popular winter holiday program showcasing seasonal music from a wide variety of Eastern European ethnic and spiritual traditions.

For countless centuries, people around the world have utilized the power or community singing to infuse warmth, cheer, spirituality, wishes for peace, health, and good fortune into the long, dark, cold, and difficult winter season. Eastern Europe’s geographic position as a crossroads between Europe and the Orient has produced an astonishingly rich and varied array of seasonal musical rituals.

Kitka’s 2014 Wintersongs program will feature songs ranging from rousing Slavic folk carols; to lush meditative Eastern Orthodox sacred choral works; to Baltic pagan incantations for the return of the Sun Goddess, to Caucasus Georgian Alilos (hallelujahs); to Yiddish, Sephardic, and Hebrew songs for Chanukah; to Bosnian-Muslim ilahijas (devotional hymns); to rhythmic Balkan Romany (‘Gypsy’) tunes for the winter festivals of Vasilica and Kurban Bajram.

Traditional pieces will be woven together with new folk song arrangements and original compositions by Kitka members and contemporary American and Eastern European composers, all inspired by the customs, beauty, and mystery of wintertime.”