Love's in Need of Love

Sunday, November 24 at 3:00pm
The Port Theatre, Nanaimo

Special Guest: Tom Arntzen
Tickets: $31.50 Adult; $8.50 Youth (high-school students and younger) (Prices include all fees.)

A new era is dawning for Island Soul Choir! We are thrilled to introduce to you, our new Music Director—Tom Arntzen—and invite you to explore with us, Tom’s interpretation of soul music.

Tom is an established artist who is well known as a vocalist, keyboardist, composer, arranger, producer, musical director, teacher, and actor. He can sing and play any style of music, and has made a living performing and recording for over 40 years.

For this concert, he has included Stevie Wonder’s Love’s in Need of Love Today, The Beatles’ Because, the Blues Brothers’ cover of Solomon Burke’s Everybody Needs Somebody To Love, and Jon Boutté’s Tremé Song. He has also included one of his own original songs, as well as his arrangements of a medley of three 60s pop songs, and a traditional Zimbabwean proverb. The choir will also reprise two of Brian Tate’s songs: One Million Voices, a song dedicated to all those who have the courage to speak out against the abuse of power, and Om Mani Padme Hum, a transcendental arrangement of an Sanskrit mantra to create calm and healing.

We are so excited by Tom's talent that he has agreed to be our opening act for this concert so that you, our audience, can get to know him and experience his talent first hand.

Island Soul Choir is a community choir in its purest sense. The choir welcomes members from all over Vancouver Island, from Victoria to Port Hardy to Bamfield and Ucluelet, as well as Gabriola, Protection, Salt Spring, Cortes, Lasqueti and Quadra Islands. Members don’t need to have any prior choir experience; they may not even know how to read music — they just need to love to sing. There’s definitely safety in numbers for newcomers, both in-person and online, to find their singing voice within this choir.

NanGo Grannies will once again partner with Island Soul Choir at this concert, by selling crafts and baked goods in the theatre lobby before the concert and during the intermission. All proceeds will support The Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmothers-to-Grandmothers Campaign. Launched in 2006, the Campaign raises awareness, builds solidarity, and mobilizes funds for community-based organizations to support African grandmothers as they raise millions of children orphaned by AIDS. We encourage our audience to take advantage of this opportunity to support this truly worthwhile endeavour and get some Christmas shopping done at the same time!

We hope to see you there!

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Phenomenal! We’ll absolutely be back for another concert… So exhuberant!… Loved being part of the uplifting energy… Lots of fun… We just loved it!… Thanks for such a lovely show… The singers are so enthusiastic!… Wonderful! We really enjoyed it… Very uplifting!… Absolutely delightful… Fabulous… Makes you want to join… Really fun to watch you guys… Always great… Fantastic!

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