Benefit Concert: Cantiamo Sonoma (a capella group) February 15, 2009

Cantiamo Sonoma: "When Dreams May Come"

One of Sonoma County's leading a cappella choral groups, Cantiamo Sonoma, performs select choral chamber music by Byrd, Lassus, Finzi, Thompson, Moses Hogan and others in Calvary's Kit Stewart Chapel.

Cantiamo Sonoma is a 16-member vocal ensemble directed by the acclaimed soprano soloist Carol Menke. The ensemble began in the early 1990s as the Schola Gregoriana, under the leadership of tenor Jeff Morse. The Schola focused on singing Gregorian chant and polyphonic masses and motets in their proper liturgical settings. After Menke became director in 2002, the group renamed itself, and expanded its repertoire to include both sacred and secular works.

Public Transportation: MUNI #3 Jackson, #22 Fillmore, #24 Divisidero
Drivers: Public Parking at CPMC hospital garage (Clay St. between Fillmore & Webster)

This concert is part of Calvary's "ConcertConnect" series; a program of monthly concerts featuring top local musicians and benefiting a different Bay Area charity--as selected by the performing artists--each month. This month's concert proceeds will be delivered to the San Francisco Network Ministries, which provides computer training, affordable housing, kids programs, a safe house for prostituted women, memorial services for poor and homeless people, pastoral care for AIDS patients, and political advocacy for residents of the Tenderloin neighborhood.

Suggested donation at the door: $10-15.

Official Website: http://www.mychurchevents.com/calendar/calendar.aspx?cei=231298468&event_date=2/15/2009&ci=G1N8L6H2K5I3N8N8H2&igd=