Olde Towne Foundation

 

Sponsors of the 2011 Candlelight Home Tour

Many talented musicians and singers are performing for us this year. We thank each and every one. Their talents add to the spirit and comfort of our historic scenery and the camaraderie expressed by spectators and residents during this holiday event.

The TCB Christmas Brass Band
Sponsorship provided by The Glencoe Inn


FRIDAY NIGHT

Our very popular barbershop group, N'tune returns again for another year.


Susan Cocke, will be playing her dulcimer for your enjoyment. She is an Olde Towne resident


John Beauchamp, flutist. John got his start as a member of the Colonial Williamsburg Fife and Drum Corps. He has played for us on prior Candlelight Home Tours and is always a crowd pleaser.


The TCB Christmas Brass Band. Can you believe they keep coming back?  They almost freeze every year!  They have participated in the Candlelight Home Tour since 2002. A great group that warms our spirits no matter what the temperature.


The group Glasgow Kiss, with fiddle, guitar and the small border bagpipes follows the roots of traditional and current Celtic Music.John McGlynn, a native of Scotland, is the band's fiddle player, Edward Brash guitarist.

Ron Falcone, guitarist.  Ron has played for us for several years before being transferred by his company to North Carolina.


SATURDAY AFTERNOON

Acclaimed harpist, HyeYun Bennet  returns.  Always popular and a delight to listen to.


From the Virginia Symphony:  Violinist Wesi Boyer, accompanied on the Cello by her sister. They make beautiful music! Wesi graduated from Hong Kong conservatory of music. She played in Hong Kong Philharmonic 1983 to 1985. Ms. Chong met the second clarinet player in the Hong Kong Philharmonic and married him 1985.  They moved to United States and lived in Chicago where she studied violin privately with Mr. Mark Zinger.  In 1987 they moved to Norfolk Virginia where Scott Boyer a second clarinetist in Virginia Symphony.


From the Virginia Symphony AND an Olde Towne resident, Tara Louise Montour, Violinist


From Friday night the TCB Christmas Brass Band returns for most of the afternoon. They will be playing at the foot of Middle Street between the Swanson and Woodland residences on the tour.


Glasgow Kiss returns to shower our tour tour takers with music for Saturday afternoon.


Tom Crouch, Bagpiper extraordinaire.


Western Branch High School Choral Singers, under the direction of Nick Nespoli.  Nick is also the organist at St. Paul’s Catholic Church and always opens the Church on the Saturday of our tour for any visitors.

 


Olde Towne Foundation  P.O. Box 902  Portsmouth, VA  23705


 
 
 

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