Local area residents have a treat in store this coming weekend, with the first annual summer musical presented by Anna’s Bay: Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. This production, which includes the Anna’s Bay Chorale, the Mosquito Fleet, the Hood Canal Youth Choirs and the Shelton High School Choir, will begin on Friday, August 29th at 8 p.m. in the Shelton High School Auditorium, with a second performance running at 8 p.m. on Saturday, August 30th. Tickets cost $15 ($10 for members of Anna’s Bay Center for Music), a real bargain for live musical theater!

I’ve blogged about Anna’s Bay events before, but maybe you’re still wondering what the Anna’s Bay Center for Music is all about. I think their website says it wonderfully:

“The Anna’s Bay Center for Music is many things, but most of all, it is a community of people who believe in the power of music to enrich and strengthen community. Part community music school, part professional performing arts organization, our mission is music that brings people into harmony with themselves and each other. Our flagship programs make participatory live music experiences available to as many as possible …”

You can learn more about the Anna’s Bay Center for Music at their website, including a calendar of their 08/09 season schedule, which includes several community sing-along events as well as concerts which will both engage and inspire you.

English novelist Charles Kingsley once said, “There is something very wonderful about music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words do; it speaks through our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls. Music soothes us, stirs us up, it puts noble feelings in us, it can make us cringe; and it can melt us to tears; and yet we have no idea how. It is a language by itself, just as perfect in its ways as speech, as words, just as divine, just as blessed.”

Spend a little time this weekend enjoying the language of music, and support your community musicians at the same time. Sounds like a win-win to me!

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