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KMSP Fox 9: Local Choir Set to Rock with the Rolling Stones

  Posted: Jun 02, 2015 9:47 PM CDT Updated: Jun 03, 2015 8:42 AM CDT by Ted Haller MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) – Over 50 years ago, the Rolling Stones first played Minnesota. It was 1964 and the gig was at the now closed Excelsior Amusement Park dance hall (closed in 1973) where they were reportedly booed…  Read More →

New VocalEssence Vintage Voices brings the power of singing to seniors

March 20, 2015

Older adults are pursuing active lives, and VocalEssence is gladly adding to their options with the launch of VocalEssence Vintage Voices—an exciting choral program that integrates the arts into the everyday lives of older adults by fostering the creation of choirs in assisted living facilities and senior centers. With funding from the Minnesota State Arts…  Read More →

Star Tribune: VocalEssence and the Singers offer winning Christmas concerts

Review: VocalEssence and the Singers bring new work and traditional carols as highlights of the Christmas choral season   By WILLIAM RANDALL BEARD, Special to the Star Tribune Updated: December 8, 2014 – 9:00 PM The highlight of this holiday season’s choral concerts will likely be “A Light in the Stable,” by English composer Alan Bullard, written…  Read More →

Pioneer Press: VocalEssence offers the sounds of Christmas, from the north

  By Rob Hubbard, Special to the Pioneer Press December 5, 2014  An Arctic winter deserves some Christmas music from up around the Arctic Circle. They know something about staying warm on cold nights in the Nordic lands of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark, and Friday night’s first of local choral powerhouse VocalEssence’s “Welcome Christmas” concerts…  Read More →

Got the Saint Louis Blues: Classical Music in the Jazz Age

Vibrant music from the crossroads — South and North, African and American, church and street — characterizes the era between 1914 and 1930. Jearlyn Steele, soprano; Michael Forest, tenor; Paul Shaw, piano; VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and Chorus with orchestra; Philip Brunelle, conductor. “The works on this excellent recording [by VocalEssence] capture the spirit of the…  Read More →

Contact Us/Location

Mailing Address 1900 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403 Street Address 1919 LaSalle Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403 Parking The VocalEssence office is located in Plymouth Congregational Church at 1919 LaSalle Avenue in Minneapolis.  Free parking is available in the church lots. You can enter the building using Door 1 that faces LaSalle Avenue. Press the button…  Read More →