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Elektra is headed to Vernon!

On Saturday, May 23rd, Elektra is delighted to be part of the North Okanagan Community Concert Series, taking place in the Vernon and District Performing Arts Centre! Our Okanagan friends are warmly invited to see us perform in this lovely space. For more information and tickets please go to the Vernon and District Performing Arts Centre website. We look forward to seeing you there!

List of repertoire for our Vernon appearance is as follows:

Ne po pogrebu Bochonochek Kataetsja                        Russian folk song, arr. Kitka

The Maid on the Shore                                                  English folk song, arr. Kathleen Allan

Maggie and Milly and Molly and May                        text: E. E. Cummings, music: Joan Szymko

Heart Songs of the White Wampum                        texts: E. Pauline Johnson, music: Timothy Corlis *

I               Rainfall

II             The Lifting of the Mist

III            Fire Flowers

IV            The Birds’ Lullaby

Northern Lights                                                              text and music by Ola Gjeilo

intermission

Jerusalem                                                                         Traditional Irish, arr. Michael McGlynn

Lullaby                                                                              text: Amanda Jernigan, music: James Rolfe *

Psalm 23                                                                           Franz Schubert

Da Pacem                                                                          Jeffrey Enns *

Eatnemen Vuelie                                                              Frode Fjellheim

Ave Maria                                                                         David MacIntyre *

* indicates Canadian composers