• CONCERT: Welcome Christmas, Wayzata

    St. Bartholomew Catholic Faith Community 630 Wayzata Blvd E, Wayzata, MN, United States

    Advance ticket sales are closed, but tickets will be available for purchase at the door beginning at 7 PM. Swing in the holiday season with VocalEssence and Nils Lindberg’s A Christmas Cantata for chorus and big band. Blending jazz-infused style with traditional melodies, Lindberg’s cantata is an “iridescent medley that invigorates, inspires and swings in…  Read More

    $10 – $30
  • FAMILY CONCERT: Star of Wonder

    Plymouth Congregational Church 1919 LaSalle Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, United States

    Come listen, clap, dance, and sing at Star of Wonder, our annual one-hour family Christmas concert. Kids sit up close as members of the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers perform familiar holiday music, including a rousing (if a little goofy) “Twelve Days of Christmas” sing-along. Bring the whole family. Baby bottles and teddy bears welcome! VocalEssence Ensemble Singers…  Read More

    $3 – $17
  • FAMILY CONCERT: Star of Wonder

    Plymouth Congregational Church 1919 LaSalle Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, United States

    Come listen, clap, dance, and sing at Star of Wonder, our annual one-hour family Christmas concert. Kids sit up close as members of the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers perform familiar holiday music, including a rousing (if a little goofy) “Twelve Days of Christmas” sing-along. Bring the whole family. Baby bottles and teddy bears welcome! VocalEssence Ensemble Singers…  Read More

    $3 – $17
  • CONCERT: Welcome Christmas, Roseville

    Roseville Lutheran Church 1215 Roselawn Ave. W., Roseville, MN, United States

    Advance ticket sales are closed, but tickets will be available for purchase at the door beginning at 7 PM. Swing in the holiday season with VocalEssence and Nils Lindberg’s A Christmas Cantata for chorus and big band. Blending jazz-infused style with traditional melodies, Lindberg’s cantata is an “iridescent medley that invigorates, inspires and swings in…  Read More

    $20 – $30
  • CONCERT: Welcome Christmas, Roseville

    Roseville Lutheran Church 1215 Roselawn Ave. W., Roseville, MN, United States

    Advance ticket sales are closed, but tickets will be available for purchase at the door beginning at 7 PM. Swing in the holiday season with VocalEssence and Nils Lindberg’s A Christmas Cantata for chorus and big band. Blending jazz-infused style with traditional melodies, Lindberg’s cantata is an “iridescent medley that invigorates, inspires and swings in…  Read More

    $20 – $30
  • CONCERT: Welcome Christmas, Minneapolis

    Plymouth Congregational Church 1919 LaSalle Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, United States

    Advance ticket sales are closed, but tickets will be available for purchase at the door beginning at 2:30 PM. Swing in the holiday season with VocalEssence and Nils Lindberg’s A Christmas Cantata for chorus and big band. Blending jazz-infused style with traditional melodies, Lindberg’s cantata is an “iridescent medley that invigorates, inspires and swings in equal…  Read More

    $20 – $40
  • TOUR: River Songs and Tales with Mark Twain, Moorhead

    Memorial Auditorium, Concordia College 901 8th Street South, Moorhead, MN, United States

    Supported by an Arts Tour grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, members of the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and Don Shelby as Mark Twain go on the road to Northern Minnesota to celebrate life on the Mississippi River. Through choral music and the spoken word, VocalEssence takes listeners on a musical journey of the past…  Read More

  • CONCERT: VocalEssence WITNESS: Morehouse College Glee Club

    Orchestra Hall 1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, United States

    This performance has limited availability. Please keep checking back as tickets may be turned back for resale. Low notes will be high points when the internationally-renowned Morehouse College Glee Club teams up with VocalEssence to celebrate male singing. Founded in Atlanta in 1867, Morehouse College remains the only all-male historically black college in the nation.…  Read More

    $10 – $40
  • CONCERT: Four Saints in Three Acts

    Goodale Theater at The Cowles Center 528 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, United States

    Called “ebullient, grand and unusual” and “a high camp masterpiece” by critics, Four Saints in Three Acts changed American opera when it premiered in 1934. Set in 16th-century Spain, the playfully humorous Four Saints traces the lives of saints on Earth through a witty libretto by Gertrude Stein and a stunning score by Pulitzer Prize-winning…  Read More

    $20 – $30
  • CONCERT: Four Saints in Three Acts

    Goodale Theater at The Cowles Center 528 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, United States

    Called “ebullient, grand and unusual” and “a high camp masterpiece” by critics, Four Saints in Three Acts changed American opera when it premiered in 1934. Set in 16th-century Spain, the playfully humorous Four Saints traces the lives of saints on Earth through a witty libretto by Gertrude Stein and a stunning score by Pulitzer Prize-winning…  Read More

    $20 – $30
  • CONCERT: Four Saints in Three Acts

    Goodale Theater at The Cowles Center 528 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, United States

    Called “ebullient, grand and unusual” and “a high camp masterpiece” by critics, Four Saints in Three Acts changed American opera when it premiered in 1934. Set in 16th-century Spain, the playfully humorous Four Saints traces the lives of saints on Earth through a witty libretto by Gertrude Stein and a stunning score by Pulitzer Prize-winning…  Read More

    $20 – $30
  • TOUR: River Songs and Tales with Mark Twain, Detroit Lakes

    Historic Holmes Theatre 806 Summit Avenue, Detroit Lakes, MN, United States

    Supported by an Arts Tour grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, members of the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and Don Shelby as Mark Twain go on the road to Northern Minnesota to celebrate life on the Mississippi River. Through choral music and the spoken word, VocalEssence takes listeners on a musical journey of the past…  Read More

  • TOUR: River Songs and Tales with Mark Twain, Mora

    Paradise Theatre 237 Union St S, Mora, MN, United States

    Supported by an Arts Tour grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, members of the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and Don Shelby as Mark Twain go on the road to Northern Minnesota to celebrate life on the Mississippi River. Through choral music and the spoken word, VocalEssence takes listeners on a musical journey of the past…  Read More

  • TOUR: River Songs and Tales with Mark Twain, Bigfork

    Edge Center for the Arts 101 Second Avenue, Bigfork, MN, United States

    Supported by an Arts Tour grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, members of the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and Don Shelby as Mark Twain go on the road to Northern Minnesota to celebrate life on the Mississippi River. Through choral music and the spoken word, VocalEssence takes listeners on a musical journey of the past…  Read More

    $12 – $24
  • CONCERT: Listeners’ Choice LIVE

    Ordway Concert Hall 345 Washington Street, Saint Paul, MN, United States

    Hear your favorite choral pieces performed live by VocalEssence! In partnership with Classical Minnesota Public Radio’s Choral Stream (heard nationally on YourClassical.org), VocalEssence will perform a countdown of the top 15 a cappella and piano-accompanied choral pieces, voted on by you and listeners from all 50 states. Will number one be Aaron Copland’s “Simple Gifts,”…  Read More

    $20 – $40