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UST Hosts Notre Dame Folk Choir Concert
12/8/2010
 The University of St. Thomas will host a special Concert of Sacred Music by the University of Notre Dame Folk Choir Winter Touring Ensemble at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 11, on the UST campus in the Chapel of St. Basil, 3802 Yoakum. The concert is sponsored by the University of St. Thomas Catholic Outreach.
The University of Notre Dame Folk Choir is a unique ensemble of 60 singers and instrumentalists. Their arrangements of sacred music include four-part choral harmony, flute and strings, ethnic percussion instruments, guitar and organ.
The music ministry of the Folk Choir has led them to sing in both prestigious and disadvantaged places throughout the world. They have toured extensively throughout North America, Ireland and England. They have sung before prelates and popes: for His Holiness John Paul II at the '93 World Youth Day in Denver, Colorado, and for the Arch¬bishop of Canterbury in their 2000 tour to the British Isles.
In August of 2009, the choir began their first overseas community, Teach Bhríde, the House of Brigid, dedicated to reinvigorating the liturgy and bringing the youth back to the church. Four choir members are currently serving in an intentional lay community in the Diocese of Ferns, County Wexford, in Ireland.
Recordings include Of Holy Women, Candled Seasons (with the monks of Gethsemani Abbey), Prophets of Joy, The Seven Signs, Crossroads of Praise, Witness of the Saints, and Psalms of the Notre Dame Folk Choir. Their most re¬cent recording, a collection of Irish music entitled Songs of Saint and Scholars was released in March of 2009.
The music and recordings of the Notre Dame Folk Choir are available through World Library Publications, Chicago, Illinois.
The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Elsie Biron at (713) 525-3171.
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