Throughout the program year, St Margaret's offers special services, concerts and other educational and community building events.
SPECIAL SERVICES 2021-2022
(click each service to view service leaflets) November 7, 2021 11:15am All Saints' Dixieland Mass w/ Peabody Ragtime Ensemble December 12, 2021 5pm Advent Lessons & Carols December 24 3pm Family Christmas Eve Service 5pm Christmas Lessons & Carols w/ Annapolis Bay Strings 7:30pm Traditional Christmas Eve Service w/ Annapolis Bay Strings March 20, 2022 9 & 11:15am Celtic Mass Palm Sunday April 10, 2022 9am & 11:15am Maundy Thursday April 14, 2022 7pm Good Friday April 15, 2022 7pm Easter Vigil April 16, 2022 7pm Easter Sunday April 17, 2022 w/ St Margaret's Brass May 15, 2022 9 & 11:15am Youth Sunday May 22, 2022 9 & 11:15am Music Ministry Sunday June 5, 2022 10am (*note change in service time) Bluegrass Mass OTHER EVENTS
In recent years, ensembles from St. Margaret's have participated in various collaborations, workshops and events outside of the regular Sunday schedule. -Combined Choir Performance at Lincoln Center, NYC -Contemporary Music Workshop, Pasadena, MD -Adult Choir Retreat and Festival, St. Peters Church, Lewes, DE -Sacred Music Festival for Youth, Washington National Cathedral -Combined Adult Choir Evensong, Church of the Redeemer, Baltimore, MD -RSCMA Adult & Youth Choir Festival, Redeemer, Baltimore, MD -RSCMA King's College Summer Choral Course, Wilkes-Barre, PA 2021-2022 -October 2021---Adult Choir Retreat with St. Peter's Church, Lewes, DE (postponed) -February 2022---Community Building in Congregational Singing Workshop led by Paul Vasile and Music that Makes Community (postponed) -July 25-31, 2022---RSCMA King's College Summer Choral Course, Wilkes-Barre, PA |
CONCERTS
Outside of the liturgical music offered, St. Margaret's offer a wide variety of performances year-round. We serve as a location for musicians from the area to come and teach, hold rehearsals, recitals and host various workshops. In recent years, we have served as a host venue for the Annapolis Chamber Music Festival. Other concert offerings have included silent film organ concerts and performances by area ensembles including Arundel Vocal Arts Society, the Renaissance Singers of Annapolis, Ensemble Galilei and our own Third Sunday Band. 2021-2022 August 6, 2021---Annapolis Chamber Music Festival September 18, 2021---Annapolis Freedom Festival December 18, 2021---Holiday Concert with the Third Sunday Band December 21, 2021---Winter Solstice Concert with Ensemble Galilei February 20, 2022---Silent Film "The Freshman" Organ Concert with Michael Britt (refreshments to follow sponsored by the Annapolis Chapter of the American Guild of Organists) PROGRAMS
Visiting Youth Choir Initiative Each year we host and collaborate with accomplished local youth choirs from the region, including Voices in Praise (MD) and Madeira School (VA). Children's Chapel Music During the school year on Sundays during the 9am service, children ages 3 through 2nd grade participate in their own worship service where age-appropriate lessons, songs and prayers are offered. Song selections are fun and simple to learn and memorize and are periodically offered to the congregation on select Sundays. Vocal Coaching Older choristers and adults receive both group and individual vocal training from accomplished vocal coaches from the greater Annapolis area. These lessons allow for additional work outside of choir rehearsals on technique, breathing and overall vocal development and health. (top photo: Easter Sunday 2019 with the St Margaret's Brass) |