This year's Holiday Concert, back by popular demand, was the Missa Gaia, featuring Kenny Ulansey (Best of Philly dance band) on sax, keyboard virtuoso Dave Posmontier, Steve Varner on bass, Jim Hamilton on percussion, and the Choir of the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Restoration in Mt. Airy.
Under the direction of Jane Hulting, this rhythmic, joyous and contemporary celebration of Mother Earth from the Paul Winter Consort incorporates the recorded "voices" of wolf, whale and loon.
Pictured below: The Reverend Ellis, Anne G., Susan W. and the Restoration Choir.
The Concert was again performed at the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia with the combined choirs.
Pictured below: Jonathan Hulting-Cohen, Kenny Ulansey and the combined choirs.
The Music Program
Music is a very important feature of our worship.
The all-volunteer choir, under the direction of Jane Hulting, sings music from many traditions. In addition to providing music for our Sunday Services, the Restoration Singers usually present two major concerts a year.
All singers are welcome. The choir usually rehearses on Sunday mornings at 9:15 in the sanctuary and on most Thursday evenings at 7:15.
In addition to the Restoration Singers, there is an all-generation choir that meets for one rehearsal and sings that Sunday, a bell choir that plays seasonally and a drumming group that performs several times a year.
Three new additions to the music program in the last few years have made a major impact. The congregation was granted the use of a wonderful set of handbells that are played at special occasions throughout the year. We have created an inter-generational drumming group. An organ was given by a congregant and we completed a fund drive that allowed us to buy a much needed new piano for the sanctuary.
If you would like to join one of the musical groups at Restoration, speak to Jane after the Sunday Service.