Twenty voices blend in luscious harmonies and powerful rhythms as Wild Mountain Thyme and the Boundary County Peace Group present "Give Peace a Chance: A choral call to the paths of peace."
A performance will be offered Sunday, Oct. 19 at 3 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church. This performance will be a benefit for our Bonners Ferry Food Bank. Suggested donation is $10. The concert will also be presented Saturday, Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. at the home of Jerry and Ingrid Pavia. Tickets for the Saturday concert are $10 at Bonners Books.
"Give Peace a Chance" will also be presented in Creston, B.C. at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17 at Trinity United Church (tickets $10 at the door), and on Nov. 1 & 2 in Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, Cheney, and Rosalia, Wash.
Wild Mountain Thyme is an auditioned vocal ensemble from Bonners Ferry, ID. They have performed throughout the inland NW as well as in Austria, Hungary, Newfoundland and British Columbia as invited performers for international choral festivals. Wild Mountain Thyme was founded in 1997 by conductor, Vicki Blake, and accompanist Barb Nelson.
"Give Peace a Chance" features a broad spectrum of works about peace within ourselves, our families, our communities and our world. The works are interspersed with quotes/poetry/stories gathered by the Boundary County Peace Group. The performance includes contemporary concert works set to texts like Langston Hughes "I Dream a World," Chief Joseph's " I will Fight No More Forever," St. Francis' "Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace," alongside pop/protest songs including "One Tin Soldier," "Bridge Over Troubled Water," "Put a Little Love in Your Heart," "Let There Be Peace on Earth".
The concert is intended as a reminder that peace begins in each individual and that we are each responsible for choices which lead us towards more peaceful homes, communities, nations... towards a more peaceful planet.