St Patrick’s Day is just around the bend.
Join the lads & lassies for a merry evening
March 15, 2025 commencing at 5:30 p.m.
at Santa Barbara Woman’s Club “ShamRockWood”
670 Mission Canyon, Santa Barbara.
Irish music, a pub-style dinner, games, raffles, dancing, and festivities, all for The Choral Society.
Featuring an amazing local lineup:
• Music by The Decent Folk
• Alanna Callaghan and her Firedance Academy Dancers
• Kule Klub Ukulele band for a pub singalong
• Will Breman & his band for dancing
Tempting Pot o’ Gold Raffles
Live Auction Competition
Paddie Raise for Choral Music
$5,000 Slainte Sponsor
• two tables of eight plus ad, name on promotional signage
$2,500 Craic Sponsor
• one table of eight plus benefits above
$1600 table of eight only
$160 per person
Sponsorship of any amount without attendance
Space is limited.
RSVP by March 10.
American baritone, Ralph Cato has travelled the world extensively, telling stories in song with his warm, clarion baritone voice.
Tenor, Benjamin Brecher has performed over fifty operatic roles with many of the world’s most prestigious opera companies, specializing in the high lying lyric tenor repertoire. He has performed 16 roles with New York City Opera alone. Career highlights include performances with Opera Orchestra of New York, L’Opera de Nice, Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, L’Opera de Montreal, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, among many others. His orchestral solo repertoire includes Mozart, Handel, Orff, Bach, Haydn, as well as many performances of Britten. In 2000 he began performing the great Irish Tenor songs in a concert produced for him entitled A Celtic Celebration, Twenty years later, the show has become a North American hit with performances with 45 Symphonies in North America. Ben continues his discography having added his twelfth recording in 2016 Forgotten Liszt, with pianist Robert Koenig, and will record a new release in 2022 entitled “Three Centuries of Thomas Moore” including the music of Britten, Berlioz, and Sarah Gibson on MSR Classics. He is a Professor of Voice at University of California Santa Barbara, where he has served as the Head of Voice.
Born and raised in Southern California, April Amante is a versatile soprano with expertise and facility in repertoire spanning from early music to contemporary musical theater.
Tracy Van Fleet is pleased to return to the Santa Barbara Choral Society. As a soloist, she has performed with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Lüneburg Symphony in Germany, Orquesta Filarmónica de Boca del Río in Mexico, Pasadena Symphony, Naples Philharmonic, Los Angeles Bach Festival, San Diego Chamber Orchestra, Colorado Philharmonic, USC Symphony and Chorus, and others. She has had many appearances with the Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Opera Pacific, San Diego Opera and Opera Colorado.