2012-2013 Home & Holiday Concert Schedules Announced

Both Home Concerts are part of the RUMC 2012-2013 Music Concert Series which presents music of different mediums throughout the year. The programs begin at 8:00pm and will be presented at the Ridgewood United Methodist Church Sanctuary located at 100 Dayton Street in Ridgewood, NJ. (Office Phone: 201-652-2868) [directions].

The Choir will present it's programs on the following schedule:

Date	Location	Information
Sunday, December 9, 2012, 1:00pm	Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Glen Rock, NJ	Contact the cnurch at Phone: 201-444-6598 for additional information.
Friday, December 14, 2012 at 8:00 p.m.	Ridgewood United Methodist Church, 100 Dayton Street, Ridgewood, NJ	The Ridgewood United Methodist Church (RUMC) is the residence of Jersey Jubilation. RUMC is an 'acoustically active' venue that reverberates musical presentations equivalent to many fine music halls in New York City. The venue has been the site of concerts and recordings of many professional, accomplished groups and musicians including the Youth Ringers (a touring, concert and broadcasting youth handbell choir resident for over 15 years under Christine Braden, Director), Dr. Jean Langlais, Virgil Fox, Dr. Richard E. Frey, Dr. James Wynne and the current guest resident choir, the Jersey Jubilation Handbell Choir. We are delighted to be offering our 9th Annual Home Holiday Concert through the RUMC music department. The Concert is open to the community and takes a free will offering to support the costs of the Handbell Choir, the music program of the RUMC and in addition, to other programs in need. [Click Here for flyer]
Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 3:00 p.m.	The Oval, Stuyvesant Town New York City, NY	Stuyvesant Town is a large private residential development on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Stuyvesant Town was named after Peter Stuyvesant, the last Director-General of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, whose farm occupied the site in the seventeenth-century. This is our 5th Annual invited visit to New York City to share holiday music in partnership with the "Stuy-Town Holiday Open House" for its residents and visitors. The Choir joins with the U.S. Marines in their "Toys for Tots" collection program to make the holidays both meaningful and festive, and with the operations staff or Stuyvesant Town in concert with their annual Holiday Wine, Pastry and Chocolate Open House Tasting parties. [Click Here for flyer]
Friday, May 17th, 2013, 8:00 p.m.	Ridgewood United Methodist Church, 100 Dayton St., Ridgewood, NJ	The Ridgewood United Methodist Church (RUMC) in Ridgewood, NJ has invited Jersey Jubilation, its resident guest community handbell choir to ring in concert on Friday evening, May 17th, 2013! The Jersey Jubilation Handbell Choir will be ringing a number of arrangements, both sacred and secular, including selections from major handbell composers as well as selections from newer composers on the scene. Depending on musical arrangements, the choir may be accompanied with piano, organ, percussion and/or electronic keyboard at each concert. Programs are part of the RUMC 2012-2013 Music Concert Series which presents music of different mediums throughout the year. The programs begin at 8:00pm and will be presented at the Ridgewood United Methodist Church Sanctuary located at 100 Dayton Street in Ridgewood, NJ. (Office Phone: 201-652-2868) [directions]. [Click Here for flyer]

Additional Presentations and Programs

Jersey Jubilation will also be appearing, both as a Massed Ringing Choir as well as a Solo Ringing Choir, at the Hudson Valley Handbell Festival to be held April 27th at Nyack College in Nyack, NY. The concert for this festival will be at 7:30pm in the Nyack College Gymnasium, 146 S Highland Ave., Nyack, NY 10960, and is open to the public.

The Choir will also be presenting a handbell program on May 10th for the Order of the Amaranth (a division of the Masons Worldwide). The organization's efforts have raised over several hundred thousand dollars in support of defeating diabetes.

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