Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs joins forces for SummerSing on May 10

Annual event kicks off the warmer months with performances of folk songs, highlighting the voices of choirs of all ages

The Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs presents SummerSing: Folk Songs at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on May 10 at 2 pm

SUMMER STILL FEELS a long way off, but the Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs will go all-out to bring the season one step closer with its annual SummerSing concert.

The 2025 edition of SummerSing focused on Broadway show tunes and Beatles hits; this year’s theme is folk songs, and while we can’t tell you which songs will be included (it’s a closely guarded secret that even we don’t know), we can at least tell you who will be singing them: everyone.

SummerSing features all the choirs under the VBFC umbrella, which includes the Vancouver Bach Children’s Choirs ensembles—Piccolo, Tocata, Partita, Chorus, and Chorale—and also its adult ensembles: Sarabande, Cantabile, and the Symphonic Choir (a.k.a. the Vancouver Bach Choir).

After each of the choirs has performed, they will all join together, Voltron-style, to form one unstoppable “tutti” choir. And if 500 massed voices can’t make summer arrive just a little earlier, we don’t know what could.

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