LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS: A VMC SOLSTICE CONCERT
A night to remember - Light Out of Darkness: A VMC Solstice Concert!
Sunday Dec 3 | 7:30pm | The Buddy Holly Hall – Crickets Theater | Free and open to the public
Singers, pipers, dancers, storytellers, and more gather to perform traditional repertoires of the season, in a magical, immersive, costumed, participatory festival!
Special guests include the Caprock English Bagpipe Consort; Coyote Morris dancers; Taos-based singers Chipper Thompson and Kim Treiber Thompson; Roger Landes and Robin Harrell; conductor Lanfranco Marcelletti; reciters Ron Milam and Rob DeVet; readers Angela Mariani, Clint Barrick, and Bill Gelber; singer/guitarist Jerry Serrano; dancer and director Kris Olson; and, as house band, the Elegant Savages Orchestra.
Acknowledgements:
The producers wish to express their continuing and particular appreciation to the participating ensembles and individuals; to Director Andrew Stetson of the TTU School of Music and Dean Martin Camacho of the JT and Margaret Talkington College of Visual and Performing Arts; to Chipper Thompson for the Mari Lwyd; to Corey Green for the Green Man, Coyote, and the Windy Man; to Karina Dolzal and Clark Preston and the faculty, students, and staff of the TTU School of Music; and to Clint Barrick and the staff of KTTZ FM.
VMC Staff:
Founding Director: Dr Christopher J Smith
Associate Director: Dr Roger Landes
Executive Committee: Angela Mariani, Bill Gelber, Kyla Olson
Administrative Coordinator: Heather Beltz
Sunday Dec 3 | 7:30pm | The Buddy Holly Hall – Crickets Theater | Free and open to the public
Singers, pipers, dancers, storytellers, and more gather to perform traditional repertoires of the season, in a magical, immersive, costumed, participatory festival!
Special guests include the Caprock English Bagpipe Consort; Coyote Morris dancers; Taos-based singers Chipper Thompson and Kim Treiber Thompson; Roger Landes and Robin Harrell; conductor Lanfranco Marcelletti; reciters Ron Milam and Rob DeVet; readers Angela Mariani, Clint Barrick, and Bill Gelber; singer/guitarist Jerry Serrano; dancer and director Kris Olson; and, as house band, the Elegant Savages Orchestra.
Acknowledgements:
The producers wish to express their continuing and particular appreciation to the participating ensembles and individuals; to Director Andrew Stetson of the TTU School of Music and Dean Martin Camacho of the JT and Margaret Talkington College of Visual and Performing Arts; to Chipper Thompson for the Mari Lwyd; to Corey Green for the Green Man, Coyote, and the Windy Man; to Karina Dolzal and Clark Preston and the faculty, students, and staff of the TTU School of Music; and to Clint Barrick and the staff of KTTZ FM.
VMC Staff:
Founding Director: Dr Christopher J Smith
Associate Director: Dr Roger Landes
Executive Committee: Angela Mariani, Bill Gelber, Kyla Olson
Administrative Coordinator: Heather Beltz
Photos by Heather Beltz
