SAGE SOUND SINGERS

Exciting news!

We are proud to announce that we’ll be putting on a concert “Over The Rainbow” in May of 2026!

We have an exciting lineup of music for you to enjoy.

Stay tuned for more!

Fiddler on the Roof opens next week!

April 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th   —  All shows start 7:00PM with doors open 30 minutes prior.    April 12th, there is a Matinee at 1:00PM

Click to get your tickets:   Fiddler On The Roof Tickets

If online purchasing is not your thing, you can also get them at the
Ashcroft HUB  (711 Hill Street) M-F business hours

or you can Google   “Eventbrite  Fiddler” and that will guide you to Eventbrite

Produced by special permission from MTI (Music Theatre International)

Hello Everybody – and welcome to a New Year!

We are busy rehearsing for our full production of Fiddler on the Roof. Things are going well, but we are learning this is quite an undertaking, and we are up to the task!

The performance dates are now firm.
Tickets go on sale in March 2025.  Check back here for details.

ASHCROFT HUB (711 Hill St, Ashcroft, BC)

Doors open 30 minutes prior to the performance.

April 8, 2025 –  7pm Evening Performance
April 9, 2025 –  7pm Evening Performance
April 10, 2025 – 7pm Evening Performance
April 11, 2025 –  7pm Evening Performance
April 12, 2025 –  1pm Matinee Performance
April 12, 2025 –  7pm Evening Performance

Hello all!
It’s an exciting time to be part of Twisted Desert and Sage Sound Singers!
We started our rehearsals for the music in early September and are well into it.
Things are going well, and we have “almost” a full cast and Chorus!!!!    Just missing a few minor parts, which I’m sure we can get filled by the end of the year.
We start script rehearsals in early January 2025.  That will be exciting!

SAVE THE DATE!

We have our performance dates nailed down,
(but the dates could change in an extreme circumstance!)

ASHCROFT HUB
April   8, 2025 – Evening Performance
April   9, 2025 – Evening Performance
April 10, 2025 – Evening Performance
April 11, 2025 – Evening Performance
April 12, 2025 – Matinee Performance
April 12, 2025 – Evening Performance

All our ducks are in a row!  If you live in the South Thompson River Area of British Columbia, Canada, please consider auditioning!

We are excited to let you know that Dimiter Terziev will be performing a solo piano recital in Ashcroft, featuring masterpieces by J. Haydn, J. Brahms, A. Scriabin, and L Boulanger. Each representing a different country and generation of European composers.

Sage Sound Singers will also be performing several songs before Dimiter begins, as well as perform a short choir piece within his recital.

The magic begins on FEBRUARY 10, 2023  at  2:00PM at St. Alban’s Hall (501 Brink) in Ashcroft.
Tickets are $15 at the door or online:   Click here for tickets!

Although, this is a short season for us, we have 20 singers with 5 in each section (SATB). We are welcoming new people to Sage Sound Singers. For many, this will be their  first time singing in a choir. We are especially pleased getting young people interested in singing. Thankfully Michelle is a wonderful teacher and knows how to make it easy. Its just like the song from the Sound Of Music – Do  Re M, the first three notes just happen to be…. (you know the rest!)    She has a way of getting the most out of all of us, regardless of our ages. It is so nice to see our area’s youth wanting to sing with us!
We started our rehearsals on January 7^th and will be rehearsing Sunday’s and Tuesdays right up to the Concert date.  Our plan is to be “off book” (just like a play!) for the concert.   We’ll have Dimiter helping us learn the music at our Tuesday rehearsal.
We don’t have a lot of time to learn our music, but with the more experienced singers helping the newly minted singers, we should be fine!
In a way its better that we are doing a smaller concert (but including Dimiter’s recital) so the new folks won’t feel so overwhelmed by a full scale concert and will be excited about singing in  our planned Fall 2024 Christmas Concert.

We hope you can join us on February 10th!

Hello one and all!
Since our smashing success at Carnegie Hall (with the help of 115 other singers!) we are back again.   We took a break for the Fall of 2023 due to sheer exhaustion from New York. Well we did provide “vocal support” for the W.R.A.P.S. production of Shaken Not Stirred:  A James Bond Pantomime, and a number of us were actually in it.

That done, we are going to do a concert with Dimiter Terziev.  He will be performing a  solo piano recital featuring masterpieces by J. Haydn, J. Brahms, A. Scriabin and L. Boulanger, each composer representing a different country and generation of European composers.

Here is a video sample of Dimiter’s concert

Sage Sound Singers will help out by performing three of our own pieces prior to the main event of Dimiter playing. We will also help him out with a choir chorus within one of his pieces. We are SO excited Dimiter asked us to do this!
The concert is on February 10th at St. Alban’s Hall in Ashcroft, BC with Dimiter also performing his Generations concert in Kamloops on February 17th.

Our tentative plan for Fall of 2024 is a our annual Christmas Concert.  The format will be a surprise to all!

We had the opportunity to sing at Carnegie Hall in the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage! It all started in Spring of 2022. We were invited to be a part of this fabulous event. The idea was to gather as many choristers from BC choirs and beyond and sing Missa Brevis at Carnegie Hall in June of 2023. The choir would need be around 130 strong.  We’d even have an orchestra to accompany us!  We were ready to take on the challenge.  Rehearsals began in early January  2022 for Missa Brevis in C minor by Imant Raminsh. There were 13 of us from Sage Sound Singers who were quite excited about a road trip in 2023 – especially to NYC and Carnegie Hall! The rest of the choir was composed of people from Kamloops, Prince George, Kelowna, Ashcroft, Cache Creek and beyond. There were even a few from Ontario and India, giving us a grand total of 69 singers. We also had a name for our “new” choir. We were now collectively the “Raminsh Choir”. At the end of May 2022 we had most of Missa Brevis under our belts, so we took a long break, resuming rehearsals again in January 2023. This is where it got grueling. We were practicing two to three days per week from January to June, rotating between Kamloops and Ashcroft. We were told we needed at least 100 singers and we only had 69, so we joined forces with a choir from Arizona USA. They would perform our Missa Brevis with us, and we would perform their  “Lion Teeth Suite” by Anders Edenroth with them. We finally had the magic number of over 100 choristers. Opening night came on June 27th, 7:00 PM at Carnegie Hall. It was exhilarating to be standing on a stage so many famous people had performed on. The hall was almost to capacity, the orchestra warmed up, and the conductor on his platform. I can’t describe how we all felt at that moment, but it was a culmination of hard work, LOTS of practice, and the determination to do this.  It went well and we got a standing ovation (and asked to return in 2025!) We all will look back at this with fond memories and the knowledge that “We did it!”

Our conductors were Cvetozar Vutev, and Ryan Holder. They are fourth and fifth from the right in the poster below.

What a thrill to see that it was for REAL!

Sorry for being so late with this post! but we did pull off another concert in December 2022.

It was chock full of Beatles music and, of course, some traditional Christmas music. It was a smashing success with almost full-houses for both concerts.

We successfully pulled off a Christmas Concert on December 18 and 19, 2021.  It was a great success. Now we are planning our 2022 Season.  We will be working hard this Spring 2022 preparing for our Spring 2023 Season. We won’t have a Spring Concert, but we will be very busy!  You must be wondering what we have planned for 2023?  Well – it is exciting!  We have been asked to sing with a 100+ National Choir in June of 2023 — (drum roll!) at Carnegie Hall in New York USA!  We will be performing the music of Imant Raminsh. Our conductors will be our very own Cvetozar Vutev and the composer himself, Imant Raminsh!  We are VERY excited and honoured to be asked to be a part of this event.

Never fear, we will have a Fall Concert in 2022.  As we get the planning done, I’ll keep you posted!

Jim