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Tapestry Singers 

 

                                     MISSION STATEMENT
Tapestry Singers is a nonprofit, community-based chorus for ages high school 
and adults. Members sing for enjoyment, musical education, to raise funds for 
charitable organizations, and to provide the community with quality 
entertainment.
              
                          TAPESTRY SINGERS
                          Do You Love to Sing?  Come Join Us!!!!

Performances - Tapestry Singers presents major concerts at Christmas and in the
late spring, as well as special event performances by invitation.

Long-Time Regional Group - Based in Puyallup for decades, Tapestry Singers is 
made up of vocal musicians from throughout the South Sound. The group sings 
SATB arrangements that include spirituals, madrigals, Broadway, folk, patriotic, 
and classical works.

Contact Info - If you have SATB choir experience and would like more information 
about joining Tapestry Singers, or if you would like our group to perform for your 
special event, please contact president Jean at (253) 307-0257. Or you can also 
e-mail us at Tapestrys@yahoo.com

Rehearsals – We rehearse at Kalles Junior High School in Puyallup (501 7th 
Avenue SE). Feel free to visit our rehearsals at 7:00 pm on any Wednesday starting 
January 9, 2013

Online Access – Tapestry Singers is an affiliate of Valley Arts United. For more 
information, go to valleyartsunited.org, or see our Facebook page 
at www.facebook.com/TapestrySingers.
Open Auditions Thru February 27
Wednesdays - 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Location: Kalles Junior High
              501 7th Ave SE
              Puyallup, WA 98371
What: Tapestry Singers Food Bank Benefit Choir Festival
Where: United Methodist Church
              1919 Pioneer Avenue
               Puyallup, WA  98371-5211
When: Sunday, April 7, 2013; 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM; refreshment reception following
Description: Tapestry Singers will host several other vocal and instrumental choirs in the area--gospel, classical, bell-ringers, barbershop, etc.  All donations of cash and food to directly benefit the area food banks.
Article from Tacoma.com 1/08/2013

Tapestry Singers Auditions 

The Tapestry Singers, a community choir that has been around approximately
20 years, will be having their auditions for the public to join their group, this
Wednesday, January 9 from 7 pm until 9 pm at Kalles Junior High School’s
orchestra room located at 501 7th Ave SE Puyallup, WA. The Tapestry
Singers perform at a food bank benefit show on April 7, at the show the guest
choirs and guest groups perform. Jean Kampen, president of the Tapestry
Singers Board, explained more about the food bank benefit: “Each group will
have 10 to 15 minutes to perform. It’s a little more variety and we have really
good crowds. This strictly benefits the Puyallup Fish Food Bank. We accept
food and money at that show. In spring time, we have a spring show in May.
We have three concerts a year: Christmas, food bank benefit show, and our
spring show.”

         

The Tapestry Singers is free to join. They rehearse from 7 pm to 9 pm every
 Wednesday at Kalles Junior High School. Males and females are welcome.
The Tapestry Singers sing from September to May and take the summer off.

In addition to the yearly three concerts, the Tapestry Singers also sing for
Veteran’s and Memorial Day and every November at the University Place
Presbyterian church sponsored by Good Samaritan and Multi-Care for those
 that are dealing with grief over the holidays. Jean commented: “We bring our
 programs to senior centers and retirement homes, for example, the Tacoma
Lutheran Home and Merrill Gardens in Puyallup. Basically, whoever wants
us to sing and we can, we will.”

Maynard Hedegaard, director for the Tapestry Singers Board, provided further
 details on the spring concert, “Our theme for the spring concert is “Movies
and memories” and all songs we will be singing will be from musicals and
movies for example, “Oh, what a beautiful morning,” by Richard Rodgers
lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, “The Surrey with the fringe on top” by Richard
Rodgers lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, “People will say we’re in love” from
the “Oklahoma” musical, and some pieces by George Gershwin from the
opera “Porgy and Bess”, the songs: “Summertime,” and “I got plenty o’nuttin’"
 a piece from Walt Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” “Sunrise, Sunset” from
 the play
“Fiddler on the Roof” “Climb every mountain” from the “Sound of Music”,
“Bridge over troubled water” by Paul Simon, and “Some enchanted evening”
 by the musical movie “South Pacific.”

Jean commented on what she thought of the Tapestry Singers: “They are like
another family for people because we’re not such a large enough group that
we’re a face in the crowd. We care about each other and we’re friends and
family with each other. We don’t belong because we want to be in a group,
but because we sing and enjoy the community and don’t care about making a
CD or tours.”

Jean discussed the best thing about the Tapestry Singers, “I really like the
music that Maynard picks out, it’s very thoughtful and he’s very knowledge-
able at it. He picks out things very deliberately. I love to sing with the group
and enjoy our rehearsals; we can laugh with each other.

For awhile, we did offer scholarships to children at Emerald Ridge High
School and we haven’t been able to the last few years because of our funding,
which has taken a hit, but we hope to resume that.”

For more information about the Tapestry Singers, please call: Jean Kampen at:
253 307-0257 or visit:ValleyArtsUnited.org.

“We are a community choir that wants to serve and give back to the 
community in the form of musical concerts. We certainly would welcome 
anyone that has some musical experience to come and join our group,” 
Maynard concluded.

By: Carly Calabrese, staff for Tacoma.com
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