Burning Bright Winter Solstice Concert 2025

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Posted: December 18, 2024

It is the 27th Annual Burning Bright Winter Solstice Concert! It’s gonna be a good one.
Burning Bright is a concert with two performances, 4pm & 7pm, at the United Methodist Church. It features a choir, a unique bunch of local instrumentalists, a children’s choir for a one-of-a-kind concert to celebrate the solstice – full of choir and small-group performances of obscure carols and fine folk songs. As well as the incredible Wall of Fiddles!
All proceeds from this year’s concert will benefit these groups;
  • The Farmers Land Investment Cooperative (FLIC) holds a vision for
    a community that invests in farmland so that it produces good food,
    builds ecological diversity and resilience, and welcomes new farmers
    into stable livelihoods. This new cooperative is accepting member-
    investors and raising money for its first farmland purchase!
  • The Decorah Food Pantry’s “Local Food Fund”.
    The Pantry uses the money to buy food directly from local farmers for
    our clients and to give them coupons to use at the Farmer’s Market.
    So it’s a great thing to support if you care about addressing hunger,
    helping neighbors, supporting local agriculture, and strengthening the
    local economy!
  • Neighbors Helping Neighbors in Decorah. The UCC (United Church
    of Christ) in Decorah administers this program which distributes
    starter food packages to new immigrants in the area.  With bulk
    packages of rice, beans, and MaSeCa  (a tortilla mix), a family has
    enough to get started as they learn to navigate the grocery and food
    sources available to them. After these initial gifts of food, most
    families are on their way to becoming more self- sufficient, having
    found housing, jobs, and other basic needs
I will attach a picture of the choir below.
The choir consists of; 
Back row, left to right: Sarah McGee, Matt Spencer, Andrew Wood, Brennan Allsworth, Dale Kittleson, Tom Misseldine, Ezra Harmon-Wood
2nd to back: Dave Lenth, Steve Zittergruen, Rob Hervey, Martin Klammer, Hannah Breckbill
2nd to front: Sarah Frydenlund, Randi Berg, Jay Hawthorne, Elyse Hawthorne, Judy Kittleson, Amy Webber, Emily Young Johnson, Elsa Johnson
Front: Kristin Albertson, Melissa Koch, Ellen Rockne, Rachel Sandhorst, Sheryl Scheffert, Karen Misseldine, Sue Otte, Karen Esterl, Kathy Reed
Not pictured: James Ulring, David Faldet
The instrumentalists include;
Instrumentalists:
Erik Session, fiddle and mandolin
Beth Rotto and Anne Streufert, fiddlers, and leaders of the “Wall of Fiddles”
Namoli Brennet, guitar
Brennan Allsworth, banjo and guitar,
Sue Otte, bodhran
Hannah Breckbill, bass
Josh Vorvick, guitar
Ezra Harmon-Wood, guitar
Mattie Snyder, cello
Ashley Homstad, ukulele
Feel free to ask for additional information, or give me a call at 208.515.6513

Brennan Henry Allsworth – Choir member
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