Heliand Consort presents “Five By Side”
featuring Chittenden County student musicians
in a benefit concert for Champlain Valley Head Start
Richmond: Heliand Consort presents the opening concert of its 10th Anniversary Season on Saturday, October 1st with a side-by-side collaborative concert that brings together Heliand Consort’s woodwind trio with aspiring student musicians from across Chittenden County. The Vermont based woodwind ensemble will honor the Champlain Valley Head Start (CVHS) program by donating 50% of the proceeds from the evening to CVHS. The concert takes place at Richmond Free Library at 5 pm.
Champlain Valley Head Start is a program of the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO), providing high quality services that help children and families thrive and reach their full potential. CVHS promotes the health, safety and well-being of children, and maintain strong collaborative partnerships to meet the changing needs of children, families and communities.
Heliand Consort’s flutist, Berta Frank, is curating the October 1st musical program, which includes an eclectic collection of arrangements from operas and symphonies, ritual music of Kwanzaa, classical woodwind trio music from the British Isles and Celtic flutes, and the dynamic jazz favorite “Take Five” performed by students and professionals, side-by-side. In addition to her career as a freelance flutist, Ms. Frank is also the Instrumental Music Director at Browns River Middle School in Jericho. The concert includes performances by a number of her students. Heliand Consort members Katie Oprea, oboe, and Elisabeth LeBlanc, clarinet, will also be featured performers.
The concert takes place on Saturday, October 1 at 5 pm. Admission is by donation, and half of the proceeds will support Champlain Valley Head Start. For more information, call 802-735-3611 or visit heliandconsort.org.
CVOEO serves single mothers, the elderly, veterans, underemployed and unemployed, disabled, refugees, and more. We help people when hardship strikes (loss of a job, homelessness, underemployed, unexpected illness) to bridge gaps with housing, fuel and food assistance. But they also help folks to build stronger futures (credit-building, micro business development, weatherization, tax preparation assistance, early childhood education). We connect short-term and long-term solutions to poverty.
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