Artistic Director/Choral Conductor
Family Folk Chorale, Arlington, MA
Chris programs and arranges music, conducts rehearsals, and produces concerts with the 50-voice intergenerational chorus and instrumental ensemble performing contemporary American folk music. The chorale has performed for sold-out audiences at venues including the National Heritage Museum, Arlington’s Regent Theatre and the legendary Club Passim, performed with Scott Alarik (Radio Host, Boston Globe Folk writer), Robbie O’Connell (Clancy Bros.), Tracy Grammer & Jim Henry (Signature Sounds recording artists), and collaborated with Jennifer Kimball (Polygram recording artist), Eliza Moore, and Deborah Henson-Conant. Under Chris’s direction, the group has grown from 15 members to 50 members and has had a 40-family waiting list. The repertoire consists of contemporary and traditional American folk songs arranged for intergenerational chorus (e.g. Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Tracy Grammer, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, even the Beatles). See familyfolkchorale.org for a list of past repertoire, including dozens of Chris’s choral arrangements, primarily 2 to 4-part harmony, for intergenerational choruses, family groups, and solos for all ages. Some of these are currently available as recordings on the CD “Links in a Chain”. Others may be available as sheet music sometime in the near future.
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