Recording artist and songwriter Bob Franke and other musicians will perform Franke’s “Good Friday Cantata,” Meditations on the Passion, Friday, March 29, at 8 p.m. at the Church of St. Andrew in Marblehead.
Vocal and instrumental performers from New England and beyond gather annually to participate in the cantata, which offers songs about Christ’s Passion (including “Roll Away the Waters”) as well as songs about contemporary people who have faced figurative crucifixion.
In addition to the St. Andrew’s choir, vocalists include Geoff Bartley, Howard Bursen, Ellen Groves, Chuck Hall, Doug Johnson, Kate Katzberg, John Kirk, Jan McLanahan, Sally Rogers, Kate Seeger, and Kim Wallach. Instrumentalists include Paul Combs, John Kirk, Joshua Levin-Epstein, Martin Grosswendt, and Franke.
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“Although the story we retell here is at the core of Christianity, it is not necessarily about being a Christian," Bob Franke writes. "It’s about being human in the presence of the Divine, and it’s about the presence of Redemption in the midst of the most horrific and tragic dimensions of the human condition.”
Donations ($15 suggested) will be accepted at the door. St. Andrew’s is handicapped-accessible.
