Kitka September 10th

                       Kitka
                       South Congregational Church - St. Johnsbury
                       Saturday, September 10th
                       7:30 PM

                       $22                    Regular Adults
                       $20                    Member Adults
                       $10                    Students

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Exquisite Harmonies from Eastern Europe and Beyond!

Eight-member San Francisco women's vocal ensemble, bringing earthy and ethereal timbres to traditional ballads, sacred music, and Eastern Europe folk songs. Dedicated to developing new audiences for sacred song and music rooted in Balkan, Slavic, and Caucasian women's vocal traditions, Kitka also strives to expand the boundaries of folk song as a living and evolving expressive art form.

Founded in 1979, Kitka began as a grassroots group of amateur singers from diverse backgrounds who met regularly to share their passion for the stunning dissonances, asymmetric rhythms, intricate ornamentation, lush harmonies, and resonant strength of Eastern European women’s vocal music.  Kitka has grown to earn recognition from the National Endowment for the Arts, Chorus America, and the American Choral Directors’ Association as one of this country’s premier touring vocal ensembles. In addition, many international musical authorities consider Kitka the foremost interpreter of Balkan and Slavic choral repertoire working in the United States.

Kitka has released eleven critically acclaimed recordings, most recently Cradle Songs (2009). Cradle Songs has been named “One of the Top Ten CDs of 2009” by NPR, and one of the “Most Memorable Internationally-Flavored CDs of 2009” by the Los Angeles Times. Kitka has been featured on PRI’s The World, A Prairie Home Companion, All Things Considered, On Point, The Story, West Coast Live, Performance Today, and National Geographic World Music Profiles. A frequently occurring symbolic word in Balkan women’s folksong lyrics, Kitka means “bouquet” in Bulgarian and Macedonian.

                                                     “A stunning group unlike any other…absolutely electrifying.”
                                                                                               – Garrison Keillor.

          “KITKA’s songs are hauntingly beautiful, simple, yet otherworldly. The rich sound these women produce       resonates as if energized by the universe itself, as if it were calling all live beings and still matter into togetherness and unity.”
                                                                                     — San Francisco Bay Times

                                            Simply amazing harmonies...the most wonderful singing I have ever heard."
                                                                       - David Crosby, CROSBY, STILLS, AND NASH

                                                                                                "Chillingly beautiful."
                                                                                             -The Gaurdian (London)

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