Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble performs Wintersongs

Wintersongs is Kitka's critically-acclaimed and wildly popular winter holiday program showcasing seasonal music from a wide variety of Eastern European ethnic and spiritual traditions. For countless centuries, people around the world have utilized the power of community singing to infuse warmth, cheer, spirituality, wishes for peace, health, and good fortune into the long, dark, cold and difficult winter season. Eastern Europe's geographic position as a crossroads between Europe and the Orient has produced an astonishingly rich and varied array of seasonal musical rituals.

This year’s Wintersongs program is subtitled “Weathering the Storm,” the first in a series of "Vocal Ecology" concerts planned for 2020. “These programs are an artistic response to urgent environmental issues impacting us all,” said Kitka’s Executive Artistic Director Shira Cion. “Kitka's goal is to use the profound emotional impact of music to inspire engagement in the global struggle to reverse climate change.”