Friday, December 11, 2009 by allie.

I took a screen shot of the calendar section on the L.A. Times website:

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Tuesday, December 8, 2009 by allie.

so this morning, bright and early (and in between 2 storm fronts, what timing!), some members of VFLA went out to Arroyo Vista Elementary School in South Pasadena to sing for the students, staff and even some parents.  much fun was had by all as we sang a short set of songs selected from our upcoming holiday concert (buy tickets! the concert’s Saturday!). the students were very attentive even though it was freezing and we were outdoors…many sang along as we did our last two songs, We Wish You a Merry Christmas and Jingle Bells.

thanks to everyone who participated, i think the kids had a good time!

posting some candids i took after the performance…

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Thursday, November 19, 2009 by lauren.

by guest blogger Jennifer Cheng

For those of you who need to walk off your holiday meals, please join us for caroling! You can see us at our Pasadena concert, and remind yourself of some holiday lyrics before you join us caroling in Culver City with Tim Robbin’s The Actors Gang on December 19.

Ok, for those of you Westsiders who don’t go east of the 405, this is your opportunity to show your love for talented women who sing, and guess what? The collective love and joy is multiplied! Caroling is always my favorite part of December, bringing joy to people across different religions and cultural traditions.

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Thursday, November 12, 2009 by lauren.

So, as part of our obligations to the grant we received from the Los Angeles County we are required to post our events on their experienceLA.com site. In doing so, I was reminded on how cool this site is! Unlike Goldstar, it is full of events produces by folks who are just like us - small, non-profit, LA community based, arts organizations. You know how you are always saying “This city is so rich with cultural happenings! I gotta get me out to some!” ? Well, maybe that was just me saying that, but this is a great way to keep informed of what’s going on. Also - our concert is posted here, and there are some cool features like “set a reminder” or “sent an invite” that makes letting your people know about our event easy. So thank you LA County Arts Council, for making us do something kinda smart!

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Monday, November 2, 2009 by allie.

ok, internets, what have you been up to since…February?!?!!

we finished our 12th season (our june concert was fabulous! we had some of our favorite kids from Creative Planet School of the Arts sing and dance with us!) and are now up and running with our 13th season.

and since it’s #13, we’re doing something a little different this year: a holiday concert! yep, vox is decking the halls in december with our first (and quite possibly our only) concert celebrating the sounds of the season.  so while it’s a little strange to be rehearsing holiday music in october, we’re looking forward to spreading holiday cheer to you and yours!

for information and tickets please visit our website: www.voxfeminala.org.

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 by allie.

our concert ROCKED.  rachel york is awesome!  and we got a write up on broadwayworld.com.  the article:

Broadway’s leading lady, Rachel York (Les Miserables & Victor/Victoria), stepped in last minute for an ailing Broadway Belle, Susan Egan (Beauty & The Beast) for the standing room only crowd for VOX Femina’s SING-ULAR SENSATIONS tribute to Broadway on Saturday night in Los Angele’s Zipper Hall.

In the age old adage of the show must go on, Ms. York not only brought the audience to their feet with thunderous applause on more than on occasion with “Don’t Rain On My Parade” (Jule Styne & Bob Merrill from Funny Girl), “I Dreamed a Dream” (Claude-Michel Schonberg & Alain Boubill from Les Miserables), and “Maybe Next Time” (John Kander & Fred Ebb from Chicago), but also left them in side splitting hysterics with brilliant impersonations of Streisand and her Broadway co-stars Julie Andrews and Liza Minnelli.

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Wednesday, July 2, 2008 by toni.

I can´t believe it´s almost over—the love, the music, searching for water or bathrooms constantly, etc. I will miss the ladies of the OCHO panties bus (yep, I read OCH pantli, the bus company´s name, wrong when I got here. Big surprise).

To follow up on jozjozjoz´s post about Santa Julia, it was one of the most important things that Vox has ever done. We found out afterward that we are the first adult group to be allowed to visit the girls. Their strength, courage and ability to dream under often unimaginable circumstances was inspiring. Two days later and I am still thinking of them, and of several of them I talked to individually. I think a bunch of folks got a new perspective that day ;). Sharing the stage with the girls was an honor.

And wow, the leaping up standing ovation and demand for an encore weren´t bad either!

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Monday, June 30, 2008 by jozjozjoz.

Seeing as I still haven’t completed my post from the other day about Vox’s first concert in Mexico, I probably shouldn’t start writing about the last concert too much… I should leave it to someone else to write about.

But I’ll say just a few things.

Today was an amazing day.

After a day of sightseeing in San Miguel de Allende, Vox visited the Casa Hogar Don Bosco, a home for young & teenage girls who were in need of a home, but have now found one there. The girls immediately welcomed the ladies of Vox with open arms and shared some songs together. We didn’t have a lot of time together, but bonds were formed instantly… what an amazing experience for us to meet such lovely young ladies!

Shortly thereafter, Vox rushed from the home and back into the heart of San Miguel to take the stage at Teatro Angela Peralta, an opera house opened by the Mexican opera diva herself. The girls of Casa Hogar were sitting in the front rows! After intermission, the girls and Vox shared the stage as the girls performed a small set with Vox as the ultimate backup singers!

Then Vox wrapped up the concert with an amazing standing ovation with the entire audience calling for an encore!

Ok, for someone who wasn’t going to blog about the concert, I just did, but there is so much to say about this performance, I hope someone else will fill in all that I left out. And there were lots and lots of pictures taken today… will any of the Voxxies and friends please share?!?!?

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Sunday, June 29, 2008 by allie.

joz took some pics during our performance today at tepotzotlan. fabulous concert. posting a picture before we go to dinner…

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Sunday, June 29, 2008 by jozjozjoz.

Allie keeps poking me and bumping into me right now and is making it hard for me to type, so apologies in advance for anything funky that I might type.

This morning we are sitting in the lobby of our hotel in Mexico City, all checked out and waiting for our bus. But that’s another story.

Last night, the Voxxies sounded absolutely amazing in their first concert in Mexico! But for us lucky audience members, we got two concerts in one! Vox Femina’s first performance of their first international tour was a joint concert with Coro Karites, Mexico’s only women’s chorus. The concert venue was the Museo Antiguo Palacio del Arzobispado, a preserved 16th-century home which been transformed into a museum that traces the development of Mexican art from pre-Columbian times to modern day. What a treat to see and hear Vox perform in such beautiful and historic venue!

Kárites, a chorus of six women led by Gabriela Franco, took the stage first. Their program consisted of:

>Yoik; Canto de Laponia
Non nobis domine; William Byrd (1543-1622)
Akai hana, shirio hana; Mie Nakabayashi (arranged by Nachiko Terashima)
Txeru; Norberto Alamadoz (1893-1970)
Festive alleluya; Lyn Williams (1952)
Si de noche vez que brillan; Cancion venezolana S.XIX
La estrella Azul; Carlos Oscar “Peteco Carabajal” (1956) (arranged by Eduardo Ferraudi)
Seberianita; Cancion Purepecha
Cancion con Todos; Cesar Isella (1938) (arranged by Ruben Caceres)

…

The women of Kárites were so welcoming and dedicated the final two songs of the concert to the women of Vox.

Vox’s set began with:

Ave generosa; Hildegard von Bingen
Nigra Sum; Pablo Casals
Esto les Digo; Kinley Lange
Ave Maria; David McIntyre
I Thank You God; Gwyneth Walker

It was absolutely stunning to hear Vox in this wonderful space… when they finished Ave Maria, the audience audibly sighed at the beauty of this piece.

Vox commissioned Roger Bourland to set poetry by Francisco X. Alarcon to music a few years ago; the next set was a selection from the Alarcon Madrigals.

In a Neighborhood in LA
Both Page and Pen
Body in Flames
Lamentario
Face and Heart
Guardian Angel

(To be continued… bus is here!)

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