Chanticleer “Sing Joyfully”

Chanticleer’s repertoire is rooted in the Renaissance, but throughout its forty-six years, the ensemble has continued to push boundaries to include a range of classical, gospel, jazz, popular music, and new commissions and arrangements. Founded in San Francisco in 1978 by singer and musicologist Louis Botto, the Grammy Award-winning, twelve-man vocal ensemble is known around the world as “an orchestra of voices” for its wide-ranging repertoire and dazzling virtuosity. The program “Sing Joyfully” explores the ensemble’s mastery of its repertoire with performances of motets by William Byrd and Heinrich Isaac; folk songs like “Shenandoah” and “Calling My Children Home”; settings of the jazz standards “Blue Skies” and “Lost in the Stars”; as well as contemporary arrangements of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” and Queen’s “Somebody to Love.”