• 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
  • 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
  • FAMILY CONCERT: VocalEssence ¡Cantaré! Community Concert 2016

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

    Experience the music of our southern neighbors at a multi-generational fiesta! Prominent Mexican composers work as composers-in-residence with school choirs, community choruses, and VocalEssence to bring the sounds of Mexico to Minnesota. Join us for a family-friendly, bilingual music celebration! Featuring: Longfellow Alternative High School (Carnegie Hall Lullaby Project Partner), Minneapolis Folwell School, Performing Arts Magnet,…  Read More

    Free
  • FAMILY CONCERT: VocalEssence ¡Cantaré! Community Concert 2016

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

    Experience the music of our southern neighbors at a multi-generational fiesta! Prominent Mexican composers work as composers-in-residence with school choirs, community choruses, and VocalEssence to bring the sounds of Mexico to Minnesota. Join us for a family-friendly, bilingual music celebration! Featuring: Champlin Park High School, Champlin Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, Minneapolis Northport Elementary School,…  Read More

    Free
  • CONCERT: The Voyage

    Central Lutheran Church 333 South 12th Street, Minneapolis, MN, United States

    Advance sales for this event are now closed. Tickets are still available and can be purchased at the door beginning at 2:30 PM on Sunday, October 16. As a chill hits the air, wrap yourself in the warm sounds of choral music and recall times when the kindness of others created a path out of…  Read More

    $20 – $40