We Persist

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.

The performance features 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.

Buy your tickets now and save before January 12!

Early Bird (purchase by 1/12/25) $20.00
General Admission $25.00
Priority Seating $35.00
Child (10 and under) $5.00
Student/Reduced $10.00

Saturday, January 25, 7:30 PM, First Church Cambridge
Saturday, February 2, 2025, 3:00 PM, Eliot Church of Newton

Card to Culture Program

Voices Rising is proud to participate in the Card to Culture program, a collaboration between the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Department of Transitional Assistance, the Women, Infants & Children (WIC) Nutrition Program, and the Massachusetts Health Connector, by broadening accessibility to cultural programming.

EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare cardholders receive free admission for themselves and a guest. At any concert, please present your card at the box office or let us know you’re participating in the Card to Culture program.

See the complete list of participating organizations offering EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare discounts.