Special Announcement, October 2021:
After a year and a half of rehearsing only online, the Market Street Singers is taking the bold step to schedule a series of in-person rehearsals this fall, beginning on October 19. These in-person rehearsals will alternate with online rehearsals on a weekly basis through mid-December. Singers choosing the in-person option will be asked to show evidence of being fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, wear masks during rehearsals, and practice reasonable social distancing. Everyone is welcome to participate in either or both rehearsal formats.
For details please contact us HERE.
Like many choirs during this long time of isolation, we have experimented with "virtual recordings." This is when individual singers record their own voice part separately and numerous tracks are mixed together in a composite. We choose the choral classic "Ave Verum Corpus" by Mozart, with several contributions coming from our singing members as well as former members and friends in the community. Our recording includes 27 tracks, or which 19 are video images and several audio-only contributions. "Performing" like this is not ideal, but it is what we have right now. Listening to it sustains our hope and helps us to be content to look forward to when we can sing together in person. Please click the link below:
Link to Ave Verum Corpus, by W.A. Mozart
After a year and a half of rehearsing only online, the Market Street Singers is taking the bold step to schedule a series of in-person rehearsals this fall, beginning on October 19. These in-person rehearsals will alternate with online rehearsals on a weekly basis through mid-December. Singers choosing the in-person option will be asked to show evidence of being fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, wear masks during rehearsals, and practice reasonable social distancing. Everyone is welcome to participate in either or both rehearsal formats.
For details please contact us HERE.
Like many choirs during this long time of isolation, we have experimented with "virtual recordings." This is when individual singers record their own voice part separately and numerous tracks are mixed together in a composite. We choose the choral classic "Ave Verum Corpus" by Mozart, with several contributions coming from our singing members as well as former members and friends in the community. Our recording includes 27 tracks, or which 19 are video images and several audio-only contributions. "Performing" like this is not ideal, but it is what we have right now. Listening to it sustains our hope and helps us to be content to look forward to when we can sing together in person. Please click the link below:
Link to Ave Verum Corpus, by W.A. Mozart
Mission:
The Market Street Singers is a choral ensemble in Ballard that builds connections within diverse communities. Celebrating the joy of choral music among singers and listeners, we aspire to cultivate neighborhood pride with choral arts that are truly community identified.
Statement of inclusion:
We recognize that singing builds communities and brings us and our audiences great joy. We want to share this joy, limitlessly with the wider world around us. We therefore include and encourage participation by people of all races, ethnic and national origins, genders and gender identities, sexual orientations, religious backgrounds, socioeconomic statuses, ages, and physical and mental abilities among our singers and audiences.
The Market Street Singers is a choral ensemble in Ballard that builds connections within diverse communities. Celebrating the joy of choral music among singers and listeners, we aspire to cultivate neighborhood pride with choral arts that are truly community identified.
Statement of inclusion:
We recognize that singing builds communities and brings us and our audiences great joy. We want to share this joy, limitlessly with the wider world around us. We therefore include and encourage participation by people of all races, ethnic and national origins, genders and gender identities, sexual orientations, religious backgrounds, socioeconomic statuses, ages, and physical and mental abilities among our singers and audiences.
Update on Statement of Inclusion:
As we enter the third decade of the present millennia, we join a growing multitude of voices decrying the tragic effects on our community and nation of continuing inequality, systemic racism, oppression, and violence. We cannot truly experience the joy of singing when others suffer under the destructive effects of exclusion and white privilege. We affirm that all lives cannot matter until Black Lives Matter. We will use our voices to create a world in which justice and equality are not just a dream, but a reality.
As we enter the third decade of the present millennia, we join a growing multitude of voices decrying the tragic effects on our community and nation of continuing inequality, systemic racism, oppression, and violence. We cannot truly experience the joy of singing when others suffer under the destructive effects of exclusion and white privilege. We affirm that all lives cannot matter until Black Lives Matter. We will use our voices to create a world in which justice and equality are not just a dream, but a reality.
The Market Street Singers is a recipient of the Civic Partners grant from the City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.
