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Ad Sales for 2025-2026 season

As we begin our 53rd season, we hope you will join our celebration by placing an advertisement again this year or joining our community of local business supporters for the first time. We appreciate your support!

We can help you compose your ad. It’s also possible to vary the ad content in each program (for the holiday, spring and summer seasons).

Advertisers (and their website links) will also be listed on the Kent Singers website and included in email blasts sent to our entire mailing list. If you purchase a large or extra-large ad, you will also receive 2 complimentary tickets to one 2025-2026 concert!

You can purchase an ad using the PayPal buttons below, or by sending a check to Kent Singers, PO Box 774, Kent, CT 06757. (If you mail your order, please include your business name, phone number and email address. To make it easy, here is our ad form. It’s also helpful to enclose your business card.)

Questions? Send an email to ads@kentsingers.org.

Extra Large (up to 7″ x 7″ – full page ad)

$160.00

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Large (3.75″ x 3.25″ – half page ad)

$100.00

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Medium (3.5″ x 2″ – business card size)

$75.00

We accept either horizontal or vertical orientation.

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Dues for 2025-2026 season

You can mail your payment to Kent Singers, Box 774, Kent, CT 06757, or bring it with you to rehearsal. You can also use the PayPal buttons below.

Each time you click “Add to Cart” it will open a new PayPal window with your cart. If you’re not ready to check out, you can go ahead and close all those extra windows. Trust me, PayPal will not forget what you’ve added to your cart! When you’re all done, click “View Cart” to complete your purchase.

Don’t worry, the “Add to Cart” button never costs you any money. PayPal will give you a chance to see what you’ve added to your cart before you complete your purchase, and you can easily remove unwanted items.

Spring Concert Dues, $55

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Summer Concert Dues, $65

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Calendar for 2025-26 season

Holiday Concert

  • Saturday & Sunday, December 13 & 14, 2025, 3:00 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Church in Kent, CT
  • Rehearsals every Wednesday starting September 2, 2025, 7:00 p.m at St. Andrew’s
  • Thanksgiving week: Rehearsal will be on Monday, November 24 (no rehearsal on Wednesday, November 26)
  • Dress rehearsal on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 7:00 p.m. at St. Andrew’s

Spring Concert

  • Sunday, March 22, 2026, 3:00 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Church in Kent, CT
  • Rehearsals every Wednesday starting January 7, 2026, 7:00 p.m. at St. Andrew’s
  • Dress rehearsal on Saturday, March 21, 2026 at St. Andrew’s (time TBD)

Summer Concert

  • Sunday, June 7, 2026, 3:00 p.m. at St. John’s Church in New Milford, CT
  • Rehearsals every Wednesday starting March 25 2026, 7:00 p.m. at St. John’s
  • Dress rehearsal on Saturday, June 6, 2026 at St. John’s (time TBD)

Announcing Our 2025-26 Season

Holiday Concert – All This Time

Our homage to the Festival of Lessons and Carols, featuring poetry and carols both traditional and modern.

  • Saturday, December 13, 2025
  • Sunday, December 14, 2025
  • Both concerts at St. Andrew’s Church in Kent, CT at 3:00 PM

The traditional Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols out of King’s College Cambridge was first celebrated nearly 150 years ago, on Christmas Eve, 1880. In lieu of biblical readings, our concert version of this globally popular service includes poetry, interspersed with both traditional and less familiar carols.

The Christian season of Advent, the weeks leading up to Christmas, shares common themes with millennia of religious and pagan observances during the cold, increasingly dark days before the winter solstice. It is a time when the lack of daylight and weather conditions can deeply affect our moods. While we typically associate the holiday season—both religious and secular—with joy, festivity, and community, it can be a time of sadness, longing, and isolation for many people. Our program, like the original Lessons and Carols, acknowledges that complexity and seasonal context while seeking to bring a message of comfort, hope, peace, and ultimately joy.

Spring Concert

Featuring Nänie by Johannes Brahms.

  • Sunday, March 22, 2026
  • St. Andrew’s Church in Kent, CT at 3:00 PM

Summer Major Works Concert

Featuring A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms with soloists and chamber orchestra.

  • Sunday, June 7, 2026
  • St. John’s Church in New Milford, CT at 3:00 PM

Tickets for all three concerts are available here: tickets

Tickets for 2025-2026 season

HOW TO BUY MORE THAN ONE TICKET: When you click “Add to Cart”, you can select the number of tickets you wish to purchase.

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR: For the June concert, tickets are $30 at the door. For other concerts, tickets at the door are $20.

CHILDREN: 12 and under, no ticket required.

ACCESSIBILITY: St. Andrew’s in Kent is wheelchair accessible via the ramp on North Main Street. Accessible bathrooms are available in the adjacent Parish Hall. St. John’s in New Milford is wheelchair accessible at the side entrance on Whittlesey Ave. Accessible bathrooms are available on the same floor as the sanctuary.

After you complete your online purchase, you will receive an email confirming that your name has been added to our list of attendees for the concert date(s) you selected. Please identify yourself to our greeters when you arrive for the concert. (We don’t use paper tickets so you don’t need to print or bring anything with you.)

If you want to include attendee names or any special instructions with your ticket order, type your message in the boxes provided below.

If you have any questions about your ticket purchase, please contact us at tickets@kentsingers.org.

Spring Concert, March 22, 2026 at 3 p.m., St. Andrew’s Church, Kent, CT

Featuring Nänie by Johannes Brahms.

$20

Tickets available at the door for $20.

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Summer Major Works Concert, June 7, 2026 at 3 p.m., St. John’s Church, New Milford, CT

Featuring A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms with soloists and chamber orchestra.

$25

Tickets available at the door for $30.

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Each time you click “Add to Cart” it will open a new PayPal window with your cart. If you’re not ready to check out, you can go ahead and close all those extra windows — PayPal will not forget what you’ve added to your cart! When you’re all done, click “View Cart” to complete your purchase.

Don’t worry, the “Add to Cart” button never costs you any money. PayPal will give you a chance to see what you’ve added to your cart before you complete your purchase, and you can easily remove unwanted items.

The PayPal window will give you a chance to create a PayPal account if you don’t already have one, or you can use the “Check out as Guest” option. Either way you’ll need to enter your email address and shipping address. PayPal requires this information, but we will not ship anything to your home. You will receive an email from Kent Singers acknowledging your purchase and confirming we’ve added your name to our list for the concert you selected (and the number of tickets). It may take a day or two before you receive the email from Kent Singers, but when you do receive it, you can be sure that one of our singers has processed your order and we are looking forward to sharing our music with you!

Summer 2025 – Mozart Requiem & Coronation Mass

June 8, 2025 – St. John’s Episcopal Church, New Milford CT
Knox Sutterfield, cond.

The 2025 edition of our Summer Great Works concert series presents Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass, with orchestra and soloists.

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Season Album 2024-2025

Once, as I Remember
December 7 & 8, 2024
The Gift to Sing
March 23, 2025
Mozart Requiem & Coronation Mass
June 8, 2025

Our December 2024 concert, Once, as I Remember, followed the form of the Festival of Lessons and Carols presented annually by the King’s College choir in Cambridge, England, but with poetry readings in place of the traditional scripture lessons. The Spring concert, The Gift to Sing, on March 23, 2025 featured a newly commissioned setting from composer Jonathan Woody of “The Gift to Sing” by James Weldon Johnson.

We ended the season singing Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass for a large and appreciative audience. The performance featured a large orchestra and four talented soloists, two of whom have a Kent Singers family connection: Bass soloist Dylan Armstrong’s mother, Sue Ellen Armstrong, sings in our alto section, and his wife, Sarah Armstrong, was our soprano soloist! (The other soloists were Megan Roth, mezzo-soprano, and Matthew Newhouse, tenor.)

Listen to selections from our 2024-2025 concert programs
A rehearsal in November
Audience arriving for Once, as I Remember
Josh Alexander assisting organist (and pianist) Isaiah Williams at the December concert
Jon Lafleur assisting pianist Sandra Kleisner at The Gift to Sing
The Kent Singers at December concert
Exiene Lofgren reading a poetry selection at Once, as I Remember
Bass section at rehearsal in February
Knox plugging our Spring concert on WMNR radio’s Fine Arts Forum
St. John’s Episcopal Church, New Milford, CT
Mozart orchestra at dress rehearsal
Sarah, Zea, Dylan and Sue Ellen Armstrong
Singing the Mozart Requiem at the June concert

2024-25 Season Ends with All-Mozart Program

We ended our 2024-25 season singing Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass for a large and appreciative audience. The concert, on June 8, 2025 at St. John’s Church in New Milford, CT, was a big success thanks to many hours of rehearsal and individual practicing by our fantastic singers, our world-class music director and conductor, James Knox Sutterfield, the talented orchestra players and soloists who joined us for this concert, and the support of our generous donors, advertisers, grantors, and MOST OF ALL, our wonderful and faithful audience! Thank you for coming to our concerts, and we hope to see you again next year!

Save the Dates for 2025-26 Season

Here are the dates for our concerts in December and next year:

  • December 13 & 14, 2025
  • March 22, 2026
  • June 7, 2026

Tickets now available here: tickets

Mozart Requiem & Coronation Mass – June 8, 2025

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Concert Recording – Sunday, June 8, 2025

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Mozart Requiem & Coronation Mass Concert Recording 2025

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Photos and Program

You can find everything you’re looking for in the Concert Archive pages.

(As always, we’re making these recordings available to you, our members, for your private enjoyment only. Please don’t copy them to any streaming services or publish them in any way.)

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