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Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Concert at St. Joseph's- 2025


Tonight was the annual concert of the West Shore Choir and our bell choir at St. Joseph's Church in Hart. I've showed you a lot of pictures of the building in the past. It's beautiful! But I try not to share the same stuff over and over.

Om got a pretty good picture of us playing the bells.
bell choir


Most of what the choir does is from the loft at the back. I'll just remind you that this church is a favorite of the directors because it has amazing acoustics. You can't really see anyone in this picture, but it gives you the sense of how it's staged.
lighted choir loft


The decorations are always beautiful.
poinsettias


Part of the choir (the portion that are students at West Shore Community College) did come down in front to sing Carol of the Bells a capella. They were spot on!
choir


We played all four of our songs. (Between the church service on the 21st and Christmas Eve, I'll get them recorded.) The choir pieces ranged from popular Christmas songs to a portion from "The Messiah" with the Hallelujah Chorus.

Everyone got to sing three carols.

And, as usual, the church fed all the musicians afterwards. We stayed briefly.

I got some work done in the morning.

See Concert at St. Joseph's- 2024

6 comments:

Ann said...

I bet everyone sounded amazing

The Furry Gnome said...

I always love the bell choir at our church. I've attended seven churches as we've moved around, but never heard bells at any other church.

Sharkbytes said...

Ann- we always sound amazing at that church!

Sharkbytes said...

Stew- several here disbanded, but then I know of a couple new, small ones as well.

The Oceanside Animals said...

Java Bean: "Ayyy, that is a very pretty church! And is that a pipe organ? Also, tell us more about the food!"

Sharkbytes said...

Bean- Huh... I don't know. I've never heard it played. It must be in the balcony. But, Bean, they had... beans! And Polish roses, if you know what those are, and other good things too