We Persist, Voices Rising’s winter concert
Please join Voices Rising this winter as we present “We Persist,” a choral concert celebrating resilience, perseverance, and the power of individual voices to speak out, build community and effect change.
Led by Artistic Director Leora Zimmer, the 60-voice group will perform music highlighting modern women composers and songwriters, including Alicia Keys, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Moira Smiley, Lea Morris, Gina Chávez, Holly Near, and Joan Szymko, as well as songs from folk and Broadway, including a new work from Shaina Taub’s Tony Award-winning musical, Suffs. Singing the words of suffragists Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell, as well as the timeless lyrics of Bob Dylan, we put out the call to shake things up and speak out for change. In a time when the nation remains so polarized and we face a real danger to our democracy, the music of this concert will remind us not only to raise our own voices, but also to listen around us, to work together, and, above all, to carry on with hope, determination, justice, and joy.
Saturday, January 25, 7:30 PM, First Church Cambridge
Sunday, February 2, 2025, 3:00 PM, Eliot Church of Newton
20 years of music making!
Thank you for joining us for our 2024 spring concert, Singing with You: Celebrating 20 years of Voices Rising.
More details can be found on our tickets page.