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Coming on June 15 and 16 Songs of Maine: A Belated Bicentennial Celebration Tapestry Singers had planned a musical tribute to the Maine Bicentennial. Rehearsals began in January 2020, and then the pandemic shut everything down. In June we will be performing our belated bicentennial celebration with nods to Maine’s cultural roots. It includes folk songs of the woods and the waterfront, Algonquin and Penobscot water songs, and arrangements of Shaker tunes. One hymn is by so-called "Yankee Tunesmith,” Supply Belcher, who created sacred vocal music for local choirs. Also on the program are arrangements of French Canadian and Scottish folks songs. Four of the pieces on the program are based on the works of some of Maine’s most proli c poets (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edna St. Vicent Millay, Edward Arlington Robinson, and Philip Booth). We will be featuring the songs researched and documented by Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee, and music by Maine composer Matthew LaBarge.

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Music Director Beth Preston holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Brigham Young University and a Master of Music in Vocal Pedagogy from University of Southern Maine. In her role as Music Director for Tapestry Singers she has become known for championing the works of living composers. She directed Tapestry during 1998-2006 and then returned to the group in 2014. She was a founding member of the critically acclaimed, Brunswick-based Vox Nova Chamber Choir. She currently sings in its newer iteration, Una Voce Chamber Choir. She was a member of the chorus of Opera Maine in productions of La Bohème, Lucia di Lammermoor, Faust, Roméo et Juliette, and part of a small women’s choir that performed with Midcoast Symphony Orchestra for Debussy’s Nuages and Holst’s The Planets. She was awarded “Distinguished Choral Director of the Year 2010” by Maine American Choral Directors Association, “Music Educator of the Year 2013” by Maine Music Educators District 3, and “Maine Music Educator of the Year 2019” by Maine Music Educators Association. She is actively involved with the Maine Chapter of National Association of Teachers of Singing, is a member of the VoiceCare Network, and a member of the National Association for Music Education. In June 2019 Preston retired from a 37-year career in the public schools where she conducted award-winning choirs and directed musical theater productions of the highest caliber. She teaches privately, coaching singers who win awards, scholarships, and acceptance into prestigious post-secondary programs.

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Accompanist Sean Fleming is an in-demand keyboard artist, accompanist, and arranger. He performs regularly with the Bowdoin Chorus, Down East Singers, Lincoln Academy Lincolnaires, Lincoln Festival Chorus, Midcoast Community Chorus, St. Cecilia Chamber Choir, Sheepscot Valley Chorus, and Tapestry Singers. He performs regularly with his two bands, the Sean Fleming Ragtime Band, and the Sean Fleming Dixieland Band. He is on the roster of the Amethyst Chamber Ensemble, and is a member of the Maine Friends of Music chamber ensemble. He is a member of the newly-formed professional vocal ensemble, Butterscotch Sock Hop. He was recently the music director for the Hearts Ever Young troupe. He regularly accompanies many high school and junior high festivals. Fleming has worked with Ann Arbor Camerata, Bowdoin Chamber Choir, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival Chorus, Coastal Chorale, Colby College Chorale, Maine Pro Musica, Oratorio Chorale, Renaissance Voices, University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society, University of Southern Maine Chorale, University of Southern Maine Chamber Singers, and Vox Nova Chamber Choir. He has directed or accompanied over 80 musical theater productions nationwide. A piano and organ recitalist who has performed throughout the United States, Fleming studied organ and piano with Ray Cornils, John Doney, Michael Lindsey, and Gerald McGee. For the past 28 years he has served as organist at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Newcastle. He was the recipient of a 2009 St. Botolph Club Foundation grant award. (Photo: Bob Mitchell)

Bass-baritone John David Adams is acclaimed for the “depth and power” of his singing and “consistently polished and graceful” performances in a career spanning concert, opera, recital, and professional vocal ensembles. His repertoire ranges from Baroque masterworks to world-premiere compositions, in performances with orchestras, choral organizations, and musical ensembles across the country including the San Francisco Symphony, Hartford Symphony, Portland Symphony, Bangor Symphony, Berkeley Symphony, Arlington Philharmonic, North Shore Philharmonic, San Francisco Bach Choir, Masterworks Chorale, Chorus Pro Musica, Oratorio Chorale, and Longfellow Chorus, as well as the Blue Hill Bach, Portland Bach, White Mountain Bach, Lincoln Arts, and Portland Early Music festivals. His diverse opera and stage credits, from Handel to Sondheim, include productions by Opera Boston, San Francisco Lyric Opera, Granite State Opera, Berkeley Opera, Opera Maine, Apollo Opera, New England Light Opera, and Maine State Music Theater. In addition to performing, he serves on the voice faculty of Bay Chamber Concerts Music School in Rockport. Owen Kennedy is an award-winning musician whose love of traditional music and enthusiasm for performing has captivated audiences from San Diego to the Shetland Islands and all over New England. He is the 2022 New England Regional Open Scottish Fiddle Champion, the 2021 Junior U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion, and he won the 2021 Young Stars of Maine “Glenn Jenks Future in Music” prize from Bay Chamber Music School. As an emerging musician rooted in the Maine Maritime tradition and immersed in his growing passion for Scottish music, Owen’s debut album Oh When: Now is out. It is a musical snapshot of the places he has visited and the musicians he’s played with and learned from, featuring tunes he’s loved for years as well as newer favorites from Scotland, Cape Breton, and Shetland. Owen also wrapped up a solo project, “50 Fiddlers from 50 States,” last spring before heading up to Cape Breton to attend the Beinn Mhàbu Gaelic Foundations: Living Cultures program for his rst year of university in fall 2023.

Program

Audience is kindly requested to turn off cell phones. There will be no intermission.

The Shortest Day of the Year

Susan Cooper (b. 1935)

Malpas Wassail Song from Truro in Cornwall Trio: Gordon Clark, Gordon Lind, Zora Margolis

Drive the Cold Winter Away English Traditional Solos: Hayden Sears, John Strong, Marcel Young-Scaggs ’Tis Winter Now

“Danby”arr. Monte Mason (b. 1945)

Spotless Rose

Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978) Solo Descant: Natalie Norris

Sing We Now of Christmas

French Traditional arr. Susan Conant (b.1959) Solo Descant: Violet Holbrook, Janet Thatcher

I Saw Three Ships/Blarney Pilgrim

In the Bleak Midwinter

English Traditional arr. Robert Taylor (b. 1964)

Brian Edward Galante (b. 1974)

Season of Light

Jacob Narverud (b. 1986)

Mi zeh Y’maleil

Sephardic Folk Song arr. Joshua Jacobson (b. 1948)

Maoz Tsur

Traditional arr. Michael Berg Raunick (b. 1986)

Star in the East

Reginald Heber (1783-1826) arr. in The Southern Harmony Solo: Skip Simonds

Behold That Star

Traditional Spiritual arr. Mark Hayes (b. 1953) Solo: John Adams

Children, Go Where I Send Thee

African American Traditional arr. Mary Haugen (b. 1950) Solos: Jenny Brown, Jaja Martin, John Strong

A Holiday Sing-Along Medley arr. Audrey Snyder (b. 1953) Audience invited to sing along. Lyrics on page 27.

Auld Lang Syne

Mairi Campbell and David Francis arr. Michael Hanawalt and Justine Sasanfar Solo: Kayla Cruz

Stille Nacht

Franz Xaver Gruber arr. Chip Davis (b. 1947)

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, arr. Mark Hayes (b. 1953)

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A Holiday Sing-Along Lyrics Deck the Hall Deck the hall with boughs of holly (chorus) Fa la la la la la la la la ’Tis the Season to be jolly Don we now our gay apparel Troll the ancient yuletide carol Fast away the old year passes Hail the new, ye lads and lasses Sing we joyous all together Heedless of the wind and weather

Jingle Bells Dashing through the snow in a one-horse open sleigh O’er the elds we go laughing all the way. Bells on bobtail ring making spirits bright. What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight! Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells. Jingle all the way. Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh. Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells. Jingle all the way. Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh.

O Christmas Tree O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, How lovely are your branches. O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, How lovely are your branches. Not only green in summer’s glow But ever green in winter’s snow. O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, How lovely are your branches.

We Wish You a Merry Christmas We wish you a merry Christmas We wish you a merry Christmas We wish you a merry Christmas And a Happy New Year! Glad tidings we bring to you and your kin.

Glad tidings for Christmas And a Happy New Year! We wish you a merry Christmas We wish you a merry Christmas We wish you a merry Christmas And a Happy New Year!

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