Bluegrass comes to Lynnwood
Traditional bluegrass band Ohop Valley Boys will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21 at Edmonds Community College.
The Ohops have become “a national act who have chosen not to go national.” Two-time winners of the Kentucky International Bluegrass Showdown, the band is known for their fast instrumentals, high and lonesome vocals, and originality.
Ohop Valley Boys perform Nov. 21 in the Triton Union Building, 2nd floor, at Edmonds Community College, located at 20200 68th Ave. W. in Lynnwood. Performances are free with a suggested donation of $3 adults, $2 children. Seating is limited; tickets are available at the door and the show starts at 7:30 p.m.
Fantastic Fridays performances are sponsored in part by the City of Lynnwood Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department, Lynnwood Arts Commission and Edmonds Community College Student Programs, Jack Carroll’s Lynnwood Dodge and a grant from the Washington State Arts Commission.
For more information call the Lynnwood Recreation Center at 425-771-4030.
Trinity organ series continues Nov. 23
Trinity Lutheran Church’s “Artists at the Organ” continues its ninth season at 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 23 with a performance by Seattle area musicians, Joseph Adam and Karla Flygare, both on the faculty of the University of Puget Sound.
Adam is Cathedral organist at St. James Cathedral in Seattle, and in that capacity serves as the principal organist for the Cathedral and curator of the Cathedral’s organs. Flygare holds the principal flute position with the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra, the Northwest Chamber Orchestra and the Auburn Symphony. The evening’s program features music for organ and flute by J. S. Bach, Pinkham, Langlais and others.
The organ was designed and built for Trinity Lutheran Church by Martin Pasi Organ Builders of Roy, Wash. The 29 stop, 2 manual, mechanical action instrument is encased in an ornate Italianate, freestanding black walnut case.
Suggested donation $10 for adults, pay as able for seniors and students.
Trinity Lutheran Church is located at 6215 196th St. SW in Lynnwood. For further information, call Norma Aamodt-Nelson, Minister of Music at 425 778-2159 or Penny Lorenz, Chairman of the Organ Recital Committee at 425 745-1316, or visit the web site at www.trinitylutheranchurch.com.
Local choirs perform with CYSO
Members of the choirs at Grace Lutheran Church of Lynnwood and the United Methodist Church of Edmonds will lend their voices to the 250 voice combined choir performing with The Cascade Youth Symphony Orchestra as it opens its 27th season Nov. 21 in a performance at Benaroya Hall.
The program will open with the orchestra of 80 young musicians from around the Puget Sound performing the final movement of Glazonov’s 5th Symphony, followed by “Sones En La Giralda for Harp and Orchestra” by Jaquin Rodrigo. and Lizt’s Symphonic Poem #3, “Les Preludes”
The concert’s second half will be performed by the orchestra and the combined choir which also includes members of local church choirs from Seattle and Kirkland. The orchestra and choir will begin with “Christus: There Shall a Star Come Out of Jacob” by Felix Mendelsohn, followed by the featured work “Song of Luke” composed by Gerry Jon Marsh, Cascade Youth Symphony’s Music Director and Conductor. This is a five movement work celebrating the Christmas story with libretto by Ryan Marsh.
The Cascade Youth Symphony Organization consists of five orchestras featuring weekly rehearsals and a total of five concerts a year. It offers a summer day camp, a concerto competition open to members and takes a touring orchestra to Europe every three years.
The performance takes place at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21 in the S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium at Benaroya Hall in Seattle.
Tickets are $18 and available by calling Ticketmaster at 206-292-2787 or at the door.
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