Journey Song presents an afternoon of song featuring the works of Peter Amidon

On Sunday, November 15, Journey Song a cappella hospice singers will present an afternoon of song featuring the work of Vermont’s Peter Amidon, musician, educator, choral arranger/composer and co-music director of the Hallowell hospice singers. The performance will include a variety of songs, sung in four-part harmony, from Journey Song's extensive repertoire of music for group and bedside singing. It will take place at the Congregational Church of Exeter, 21 Front Street, Exeter NH.

This project is supported in part by an Alfred Nash Patterson Grant from Choral Arts New England. The grant enabled Journey Song to commission Peter Amidon to create a new song, "May Today There be Peace," which will be premiered at the performance.

Journey Song has been featured on WMUR’s New Hampshire Chronicle and NHPR’s Giving Matters, and is a past recipient of the Solamor Hospice Volunteer of the Year Award. Members of the group, who come from all walks of life and faith traditions, sing in ensembles of 12 to 36 in continuing care facilities and hospice houses throughout the Greater Seacoast area, from York, Maine to Rockingham County, from Dover to Exeter, from Hampton to Portsmouth. Many of the singers are hospice trained and feel honored to bring the comfort of music to those approaching life’s end, often singing with two to four voices at bedside or in private homes. Director Eve Kornhauser calls the singers of Journey Song "the biggest hearts in Seacoast New Hampshire.”

The November 15 performance will include a chance to ask questions and experience a bedside and larger group sing.  Journey Song rehearses on Monday nights at 7 p.m. at the Stratham Community Church, 6 Emery Lane. Visitors and new members are always welcome to come to rehearsals while considering joining their voices with ours.