Choir caps 10 years with One Voice fundraiser

The Crown of the Continent Choir concludes its 10th year Sunday with its annual “One Voice” fundraiser at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish.

The season’s finale features music, dance and percussion, including original compositions by Choir Director Craig Thomas Naylor and a classical piano solo by Choir Accompanist Meghan Hodges.

Music selections that will be performed include “Dona Nobis Pacem,” “The Gift to be Simple,” a traditional Shaker tune, “Turn the World Around,” by Harry Belafonte; “We Are One,” and “America the Beautiful.” African American spirituals and works from Senegal, Estonia and Guinea will also be performed.

Attendees will be able to bid on silent auction items and buy tickets to be entered into prize drawings.

Doors open at 3:30 p.m. to kick off the silent auction and the concert begins at 4 p.m. Admission is free. Donations will be accepted.

The Crown of the Continent Choir is a non-auditioned, non-sectarian chorale whose mission is to sing for fun, build community and raise money for charitable causes and organizations through benefit concerts.

This season’s benefit concerts netted $7,000 in donations, which went to Mountain View Mennonite Church’s Ukraine Relief fund, the Montana Veterans Home in Columbia Falls, the historic St. Ignatius Mission’s restoration campaign and the Samaritan House for its services to veterans.

For information or to join the choir in the coming season, visit www.crownchoir.org.