OLALLA — The Olalla Community Club (OCC) will ring in the holiday season on Dec. 13 with a musical celebration featuring the Kitsap Pines Chorus at the Olalla Community Hall, 12970 Olalla Valley Rd.
The concert is the December installment of OCC’s Second Saturday Clubhouse Concert Series. Admission to the Olalla show is free.
The Kitsap Pines is a women’s barbershop-style a cappella chorus.
“We sing four-part harmony and we love to make the chords sing,” said long-time member Beverly Babbs. “We sing a variety of music from traditional Christmas songs to fun toe-tapping tunes.”
The program will include such holiday favorites as “Jingle Bells,” “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” and the beautiful “Coventry Carol,” as well as a few surprises like “Sittin’ on Top of the World” and “Are You Lonesome Tonight,” according to Kitsap Pines Director Mary Neff, who has sung with one Sweet Adelines group or another for more than 30 years.
The Kitsap Pines Chorus was formed in 1972 and they’ve performed at many community events and private functions. The Holiday Chorus, which will be featured at the Olalla concert, includes women from Bremerton, Port Orchard, Allyn, Belfair, Poulsbo, Olympia, Tacoma and Gig Harbor, Neff said.
“We put out the call earlier this season for new women to join our Holiday Chorus and we nearly doubled the number of singers in our group,” she said. “We’re all really looking forward to singing in Olalla.”
The Kitsap Pines group is part of Sweet Adelines International, which has approximately 30,000 members worldwide.
“This concert is our gift to the community of Olalla and beyond for all their support through the year,” said OCC member Nolan Pepperdine, organizer of the Second Saturday Concert Series. “We’ll have a donation jar available if anyone wants to add a little something to help the Community Club, but we’re very pleased to offer this show as our special holiday treat.”
The event starts with a potluck at 6 p.m., followed by music at 7 p.m. All ages are welcome.
The next event in Olalla’s Second Saturday Clubhouse Concert Series will take place Jan. 10, with a concert featuring Simon Lynge, an Inuit-Scandinavian singer-songwriter from Greenland.
For information, contact Pepperdine at nolan@wavecable.com.
