SPRING Concert Weekend

Saturday, May 12 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, May 13 at 4:00 pm

Guest musicians: Alki Steriopoulos and Anna Patton

First Baptist Church, downtown Brattleboro

The Brattleboro Women’s Chorus, directed by Becky Graber, will present “Enjoy Your Life,” their 16th annual Mothers’ Day weekend concerts on May 12 and 13, with several special guests. For the third spring concert in a row, world-class pianist, Alki Steriopoulos, will be the guest musician. He will be joined by clarinet virtuoso, Anna Patton. In addition Patton’s Women’s Vocal Harmony Ensemble class at the Vermont Jazz Center will perform.
 
The concert will feature two songs by Minnesota composer, Diane Benjamin, one of which was arranged for the Brattleboro Women’s Chorus and is entitled, “Enjoy Your Life.” The other is “You Get Proud by Practicing,” based on a work by Laura Hershey, a poet and disability rights advocate.
 
Several gospel songs that Graber learned from Kathy Bullock will be presented, including “Lookin’ for a Miracle.” Also included will be “May I Suggest” by Susan Werner as sung by the trio Red Molly.
 
Patton’s ensemble will open the concert with a Benny Goodman/Charlie Christian tune, which Patton arranged and gave words and a new title, “The Till Tom Special Sailboat Race.” The second selection, written by Anna’s brother, Ben Patton, is “If They’d Had Flappers Back in Shakespeare’s Day.” The ensemble will join the chorus on several other songs, including Graber’s arrangement of the jazz standard, “God Bless the Child.”
 
The concerts are Saturday, May 12 at 7:30 and Sunday, May 13 at 4:00 at the First Baptist Church on Main Street in Brattleboro. Tickets are only at the door, and admission is $15 generous, $10 adult, $8 seniors and children.

If you’ve been waiting for the perfect time to get yourself to a Brattleboro Women’s Chorus concert, you have four opportunities a year. 

Fall concerts take place the weekend before Thanksgiving and spring concerts take place Mother's Day weekend.

Each BWC concert includes an eclectic repertoire of familiar and obscure world music, poetry, and an audience sing along. In many cases we have guest musicians accompany us on some songs.