Concerts and Events

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Concerts

Overhead Choir Shot 01 Noteable Lunch Concerts - 12:20pm
Join us for these FREE informal 20 minute performances which happen in public spaces throughout St. John's.

Concerts in the Afternoon - 2:00pm
Festival 500 presents afternoon concerts held simultaneously at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church - 'The Kirk' (Queen's Road) and Mary Queen of Peace Roman Catholic Church (Torbay Road) on Thursday July 7, Friday July 8, Saturday July 9 and Monday July 11.

Opening Gala Concert - July 6, 2011
Arts & Culture Centre - 8:00pm
Join us for an evening of great entertainment as Rajaton and award-winning Canadian Choirs kick off Festival 500 in the Opening Gala concert. As a special treat, you will share in the anticipation as the Association of Canadian Choral Communities (ACCC) announces the winners of the National Competition for Canadian Amateur Choirs.

Festival 500 "East Meets West" Concert - July 10, 2011
Arts & Culture Centre - 8:00pm
A show you will not want to miss! The a capella brilliance of Rajaton (Finland) plus the amazing colour and excitement of the Indonesian Children & Youth Choir in concert!

World of Music Concerts - 8:00pm
At the heart of Festival 500 are these evening concerts held simultaneously at the Arts & Culture Centre and Gower Street United Church on Thursday July 7, Friday July 8, Saturday July 9 and Monday July 11. Each concert features individual choir performances followed by a "sharing of voices" finale.

Small Vocal Ensemble Concerts - 8:00pm
D.F. Cook Recital Hall - Memorial University School of Music
Join us for evening performances by these gifted a capella groups on Friday July 8, Saturday July 9 and Monday July 11.

Rural Concerts

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Lady Cove / Camerata Xara Feature Performance - July 12, 2011
Arts & Culture Centre - 8:00pm

Culture arose in Newfoundland and Labrador in the same way the land was formed - earth's crust pushed to the surface, was pounded by the Atlantic surf, and seasoned for generations in a briny mist. Now, the pace of change in Newfoundland has shifted from languid geological time to rapid digital modernity. We are becoming more urban. We still gain our prosperity from the sea, but now from oil and gas instead of a small boat fishery. Today, the anchors of our cultural sharing are waning as storytelling and song give way to new media.

Lady Cove Women's Choir, one of Canada's leading choral ensembles, has harnessed the possibilities of our new reality to re-imagine and share our cultural heritage. In a multi-media production that links indigenous and contemporary music, poetic, visual and dance traditions with digital technologies, Lady Cove presents an evening of new commissions from the Newfoundland and Labrador songbook and inspired from the traditions of this place including Canadian composers Imant Ramish, James Rolfe, Stephen Hatfield and Christos Hatzis. Feel the past meet the future and experience a culture cut from the land and fished from the sea.

Nova Scotia's Camerata Xara Young Women's Choir will perform 'Played', the tale of a Trickster who uses intelligence, humour and mischief to topple unjust power structurs and reorder lives that have gone astray.

Grand Finale Concert - July 13, 2011 Mile One Centre - 8:00pm
Join in the singing! This speechless extravaganza features a snapshot of all the performing choirs, a massed adult choir, a massed youth choir, over 1000 voices strong accompanied by the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra plus a colourful performance by the Indonesian Children and Youth Choir, concluding with Rajaton performing, with the NSO, selections from their hit ABBA show. Don't miss this show! It will be an experience you won't soon forget!

Tickets for the Grand Finale Concert are available only at Mile One Centre Box Office or online http://www.mileonecentre.com/purchase.asp.