Summer Music Concerts 2024 - The Congregational Summer Assembly (CSA) will host four concerts this summer at 2128 Pilgrim Highway in Frankfort. The public is welcome and there is free admission.
New Third CoastThis year, the Dutton Concert will feature the New Third Coast (N3C) on Saturday, July 13 from 6:30-8:00 pm. The trio features Patrick Niemisto, John Kumjian and Bryan Poirier. Both Niemisto and Kumjian are retired music faculty at Glen Lake Community Schools. Poirier is the owner of 3rd Coast Financial in Traverse City, and also plays with the Jameson Brothers outside of N3C.
“The New Third Coast is an excellent power folk trio that will bring a variety of instruments and sing great three-part harmonies,” CSA Choir Director Ken Cox said. The concert will be held on the CSA ballfield and attendees are encouraged to bring towels, chairs, and an evening picnic. Please note that alcohol is prohibited on CSA property. Bring your whole family to this casual-in-the-extreme time together! There will be dancing, singing along, and limerick writing happening along with tunes from the 60’s to the present day. The road in front of the Assembly Building will be blocked off.
CSA Choir Concert - Special Event
On Friday, July 26 at 7:30 pm, the CSA choir will give a special concert at the Congregational Summer Assembly Meeting House. The choir will perform some of their most popular pieces, such as “When the Saints Go Marching In” and “His Eye in On the Sparrow,” but won’t include any songs recorded in their last concert held in summer of 2000. Due to the audio recording, the choir is asking that no small children or animals attend to avoid any noise in the background.
Kodak Quartet On Saturday, July 27 at 7:30pm, pianist Dr. Hyemin Kim and the Kodak Quartet will perform the Burrows-Getz Concert at the Congregational Summer Assembly Meeting House. Dr. Kim serves as Collaborative Piano Faculty and teaches secondary piano lessons at Interlochen Arts Academy. Kodak has performed with multiple Grammy-winning artists and currently serves as the Cuker and Stern Resident String Quartet at the Mannes School of Music in New York.
Katherine BarbourThe final concert of the season will feature lifelong CSA member Katherine Barbour on August 3 at 7:30pm in the Meeting House, for the annual Armstrong Concert. She will perform a full-length vocal recital and will be joined on the piano by Assistant Conductor of the Apollo Chorus of Chicago, Cody Michael Bradley.Katherine Barbour is a soprano pursuing a Music Masters in Vocal Performance at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where she is in the voice studio of Deanne Meek and will be in Carol Van Ness’ Opera Workshop this fall. She began her vocal studies in Wilton, Connecticut with Michele McBride, former principal artist of New York City Opera, and continued with Carolyn Sani Redman at Denison University.
In July, Katherine was Konigen (Queen of the Night) in “Die Zauberflote” with Lyric Studio Opera Weimar, a young artist program in Germany. She previously performed as Papagena and Knabe in Weimar summer of 2023. In addition, she has had roles in “Dido and Aeneas,” “Hansel and Gretel,” “Suor Angelica” and Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance.” As a soloist she has performed in Schubert’s “Mass in G”, Vivaldi’s “Gloria” and Britten’s “Ceremony of Carols.” She participated in Opera Lucca and Westminster Choir College Summer in Florence in 2019. She was most recently seen on the CSA stage as Belle in the 2022 adult operetta “Beauty and the Beast.”