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By the way, our local PBS station re-aired last year's Christmas program from Ireland yesterday as part of their end of year fundraising.
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Libera has announced another UK Spring concert for May 16, 2015 at the Cathedral in Guildford:

http://www.libera.org.uk/events
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Boston has now been added to the sites for the upcoming US Libera concert tour:

Here's the complete list to date:

1-Apr-2015: The Wilbur Theatre, Boston MA (https://libera.org/) (https://twitter.com/chocolatlvr/status/ ... 72/photo/1)
2-Apr-2015: Warner Theatre, Washington DC (http://t.co/MClL4Kd7Hy)
4-Apr-2015: Tobin Center, San Antonio TX (https://t.co/V0XnLxbRw0)
8-Apr-2015: Arcada Theater, St Charles, IL (Chicago suburb) (http://t.co/CXqe8OUvPK)
10-Apr-2015: Woodruff Arts Center Symphony Hall, Atlanta, GA (http://t.co/mreSIUbID9)

Please note that the concert at the Arcada Theater in St. Charles IL has been changed from the previously announced date of 12-Apr to 8-Apr.


So far the schedule looks VERY travel intensive for the boys with only a day or two between some pretty far apart locales.

If more locations are announced for this tour, I'll add them to the above list.
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The Moscow Times posts this article about the landmark visit of Libera to Russia this year:

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/514438.html
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Had to share this:
Libera has released their latest video: "what a wonderful world" one of my all time favorite songs, and it is really good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4nmVhnGtDw
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tankntonic wrote:Had to share this:
Libera has released their latest video: "what a wonderful world" one of my all time favorite songs, and it is really good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4nmVhnGtDw
Here is an amusing blog entry about the recording of that video:

http://www.libera.org.uk/blog/what_a_wonderful_world

I am in awe of the message this video relates. We tend to think that these mills were just 'the dark Satanic mills' in Blake's Jerusalem; but they existed in the US as well, right into the 20th century. In fact, the model for the 'all-in' textile mill originated not in the UK, but in Lowell, Mass, a creation of Francis Cabot Lowell; this model was copied in Britain during the textile boom of the mid-Victorian era. Originally the laborers were 80% women; after about 1837 they were slowly replaced by immigrants who worked for less; then children were employed, because they were the cheapest source of labor of all. And, so it seems, they were expendable.

Here are some photos of that sad era:

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/

(n.b. the newsie and coal miner photos)
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To promote the release of their new album, DVD and PBS (US TV) special in March, and their April US tour, Libera has posted this "behind the scenes" video chronicling the making of the Washington DC concert at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception last August during which the PBS special was filmed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24gy_Ng ... e=youtu.be
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Happy St. Patrick's Day Everyone!!

Danny Boy from Libera:

https://t.co/nOzZeTD9Zx
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Libera invited the Texas Childrens Choir to the "Libera Party - Texas Style" on Friday, the night before their concert at the Tobin Center in San Antonio:

http://youtu.be/o3US5Su1F_I
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If you've never experienced these kids "in concert" they are an absolute "must see." I was able to catch them last night, not in a church like setting, but rather in a rickety old theater the likes of which you would not believe.

And yet, the purity and harmony of their sound, the lighting effects used for each number, the perfect blend of their small back up orchestra group, turned the whole
building into a celestial experience the likes of which brought down the house.

Sitting literally twenty feet from these twenty five voices (the orchestra remains obscurely behind the group) they presented a 2-hr concert, all memorized, presenting a performance so slickly produced and with such ease and perfection, it raised me, and I know the audience, to a new transformative level.

No hyperbole here. From a lifetime of listening to treble groups across the globe, I simply find Libera difficult to match. Put them on your list of "must see." You will be richly rewarded.

And now...on to Drury Lane's production of "Billy Elliot." By all means it looks like a great line up, and I am anxiously looking forward to their interpretation. Between Libera and Billy Elliot, what a week of entertainment that can't be beat.

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