The Silk City Chorus Hosts World Class Entertainers from Sweden

The Silk City Chorus continues its 50 year tradition of staging original shows with another memorable production at Manchester High School. As usual, the Chorus will be hosting two a cappella groups who have achieved world class recognition.

To continue its practice of including young, up-and-coming talent, the exciting group Lemon Squeezy will be traveling to Manchester from Sweden. This quartet is the 2012 International Collegiate Quartet Champions and 2014 International Fifth Place Bronze Medalists. Over their four-year history, this young group has developed a crisp and delightful sound throughout a variety of songs, ranging from traditional Swedish pieces to Elvis Presley songs.

The second guest group are highly experienced performers from Florida- guest quartet Main Street, 2014 International Third Place Bronze Medalists. Their entertaining style harkens back to traditional barbershop harmony, with soft shoe dance, slapstick routines and nostalgic songs—tipping their hats to the turn-of-the-century song and dance men. Each of their members has earned multiple awards while singing with several other International Medalist Quartets, including Keepsake, Max Q, Metropolis and Platinum. While their involvement with Barbershop is impressive, all four members have also been or are currently performers at Walt Disney World with the Dapper Dans of Main Street USA.

Also performing on the show will be “Be S#arp”, the highly regarded a cappella group from Conard High School in West Hartford, CT.

The Silk City Chorus performance takes a twist that previous attendees have probably never experienced. The show is entitled “I’m Your Puppet,” an entertaining joint performance with students and faculty of the University of Connecticut Puppet Arts Program. The performance will feature students from the University’s puppet arts program and unique puppets they have created just for this show. Many aspects of the art of puppetry will be featured as an artistic component of the host Silk City Chorus’ musical performance.

There will be two shows, with all featured performers- on Saturday, January 24th at 1:30 and 7:30 PM at Manchester High School, 134 Middle Turnpike East, Manchester, CT 06040.

All seating for both shows is reserved. Advance seating pricing is: Primary (front 4 rows): $28.00; Secondary: $23.00; Classic: $20.00; Standard: $17.00.

Seating prices are $3.00 higher at the door on the day of the show.

For tickets, please visit the chorus website: http://www.silkcitychorus.org/2015AnnualShow, call 860-298-8820 or write: Jerry Wistrom, 23 Country Club Drive, Windsor, CT 06095