The midcoast Maine-based a cappella vocal ensemble VoXX: Voice of Twenty will present its annual

winter series with four January 2024 concerts in Belfast, Phippsburg, Bangor, and Rockport. This year’s program theme is Winter Sun.

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VoXX will welcome the New Year with a selection of sacred and secular pieces appropriate to the season and spanning many centuries, from the Gregorian chant Alma Redemptoris Mater to Music Director John Mehrmann's Eala Earendel, a modern piece with seventh century lyrics. Other offerings include two settings of Nunc Dimittis, by Henry Purcell and the contemporary composer Paul Smith; the rousing "O Radiant Dawn" by James MacMillan; another Alma Redemtoris Mater by Palestrina; Benjamin Britten's "A Boy was Born"; a lively "Fyer, Fyer," by Thomas Morley; and the heart-wrenching "Here is the Little Door" by Herbert Howells.  Other offerings include pieces by Dufay, Victoria, Lassus, Howells, and John Stainer.

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Concerts dates and venues are:

Saturday, January 13, 2024

7:00 pm

Belfast United Methodist Church

23 Mill Lane,

Belfast, ME

 

Sunday, January 14, 2024

3:00 pm

Phippsburg Congregational Church Church

10 Church Lane,

Phippsburg, ME

 

Saturday, January 20, 2024

7:00 pm

St. John’s Episcopal Church

225 French Street

Bangor, ME

 

Sunday, January 21, 2024

4:00 pm

Union Hall

24 Central Street,

Rockport, ME

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We hope you will join us to welcome back the Winter Sun.

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VoXX was formed around the turn of this century as Ave Maris Stella, a group of passionate singers who gathered in living rooms to challenge themselves with early, a cappella music. Since then, the ensemble has grown in size and skill and has built a loyal following while performing at many venues around Maine, from Portland to Blue Hill and many towns in between. 

 

Today the ensemble enjoys the challenges of both well-known and unusual a cappella vocal music, with a wide-ranging repertoire that includes more familiar works by composers such as Byrd, Dufay, Josquin, Monteverdi, and Palestrina, along with less-familiar discoveries from the Medieval to the modern. The group’s full-length recording, “Favorites Old and New” will be available at the group’s concerts (while supplies last). 

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