Baroque Music and Local Craft Beer – a perfect combination!

Key Chorale Chamber Singers and Church of the Redeemer present a unique take on Oktoberfest, with a 3-day festival celebrating music of the Baroque – and Beer! Four amazing concerts featuring a star-studded cast of performers, chamber orchestra, and concluding with an authentic Biergarten Experience with German food, beers from Calusa Brewing, and dancing to Bill Milner’s Oompah Band.

3-Day Festival Schedule
Friday, October 18
7:30 PM | Opening Concert – Handel
Music fit for royalty, composed by the King of Baroque, George F. Handel. Festive sounds of trumpets and timpani permeate the occasion with works written for the coronation of King George II. Featuring: Zadok the Priest, The King Shall Rejoice, Dettingen Te Deum, Organ Concerto No. 2
 
Saturday, October 19
11:30 AM | Organ Recital & Bach’s Lunch
Last year you heard Sam Nelson’s red-blooded Bach. This year, we bring you Psychedelic Bach. Sam Nelson will present an all-Bach organ program with colorful visualizations not to be missed. Featuring: Passacaglia and Fugue in C-Minor, Concerto Grosso in D Minor, Gigue Fugue in G Major  
 
7:30 PM | Period instruments Chamber Music Concert – French Baroque
Join us for a program of ravishing and exciting French Baroque chamber music we’re calling La Fièvre du Samedi Soir (Saturday Night Fever). You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll want to stand up and dance! Featuring works by Jean-Philippe Rameau, François Couperin, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, and Jean-Baptiste Lully

Sunday, October 20
4:30 PM | Closing Night Concert – Vivaldi
Known as the ‘Red Priest’ for his curly red hair and fiery music, Vivaldi composed more than 500 concertos, none more famous then The Four Seasons.
Featuring: Autumn from The Four Seasons, Gloria, Concerto for 2 Trumpets, In furore iustissimae irae (In the fury of most righteous wrath)
 
6:00 PM | Biergarten Experience
A Biergarten Experience of German food, beers from Calusa Brewing, and music from Bill Milner’s Oompah Band.