Tapestry Singers is hosting the group's silent auction and dinner fundraiser on Saturday, Jan. 25 to support the Tapestry Senior Singers as they attend the Kamloops Performing Arts Festival this year and next year’s Canadian Rocky Mountain Festival in Banff.
Tapestry Singers is a performance group whose mission is to create a joyful and beautiful sound, to strive for choral excellence while fostering a life-long love of music and music making.
The Tapestry Singers have been in the Prince George community for 18 years.
The senior component of the Tapestry Singers are students in Grades seven to 12 while some are attending college and university. Several of the senior singers have been members of Tapestry for more than nine years and although it’s mostly a treble choir, the group does include some changed voices as well.
Tapestry Singers are active in the Prince George community, singing at sporting and civic events, performing and collaborating with local choirs and musicians. Tapestry's Senior Singers are consistently recommended as provincial delegates to Performing Arts B.C, Carolyn Deurksen, founder of the group, said in an email.
Members of the Tapestry Singers have travelled to music festivals in Edmonton (non-adjudicated festival), Whistler (Gold), Seattle (Gold), Sun Peaks (Gold), and The Canadian Rocky Music Festival in Banff, Alberta (non-adjudicated festival). Most recently, Tapestry’s Senior Singers travelled to the Whistler Cantando Music Festival, where they received a gold level standing for their performance, Deurksen added.
The upcoming fundraiser will be held at the Columbus Community Centre, 7201 St. Lawrence Ave, with doors and auction open at 5 p.m., tapestry singers first set at 6 p.m. and dinner is at 6:30 p.m., featuring beef dip and vegetarian lasagne, Caesar salad and vegetable platter and for dessert Swiss Cream Tarts and traditional Milanais cookies.
There is a silent auction featuring 80 items, Swiss chocolate door prizes and a cash bar. Tickets are $55 each and can be purchased by emailing [email protected].
For more information about the choir visit pgtapestry.ca/.
