Coventry Singers to Perform 'Songs of the Season'

The Coventry Singers

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The Coventry Singers are performing their Christmas Concert “Songs of the Season” Dec. 2 and Dec. 3 in Pottstown and Birdsboro. 

The concert is a musical program of sacred and secular works to welcome the holiday and features traditional carols and contemporary Christmas songs. Selections include arrangements of Silent Night, Carol of the Bells, Breath of Heaven and White Christmas.

This concert welcomes a new director to the stand. Dan Kershetsky assumed the role of director in September of this year. Dan, a 1981 graduate of the Pennsylvania State University, with a Bachelor of Science in Music Education, and a 1993 graduate of West Chester University, with a Master of Music Degree in Music Education, has spent 33 years in public education, most recently teaching in the Boyertown Area School District for 26 years. 

Choral groups under his direction were involved in competitive situations and consistently achieved highest ratings at various adjudicated festivals. His ensembles have also traveled internationally with performances in England, France, Italy, Austria, Prague, and the Czech Republic. He retired from Boyertown in 2014. 

Nadine Lydic returns as piano accompanist. Nadine holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her master’s degree in music is from West Chester University. She also is a retired teacher from the Boyertown School District.

The Coventry Singers, a choir of about 40 voices, have been performing in the Pottstown area since 1972. They have performed with the Pottstown Symphony, the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra, and at Longwood Gardens Christmas Concert Series. 

More recently they have performed Handel’s Messiah with the Reading Choral Society, the National Anthem at the Reading Royals hockey games and participated in the Pottstown Relay for Life luminaria lighting ceremony.

Performances take place Saturday Dec. 2 at 3 p.m at Cedarville United Methodist Church, 1092 Laurelwood Road, Pottstown, and Sunday Dec. 3 at 3 p.m. at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 5 Brooke Manor, Birdsboro. 

 The concerts are free and open to the public. A freewill offering will be accepted. 

For more information about the Coventry Singers, visit their website www.coventrysingers.org or find them on Facebook at Coventry Singers-Pottstown, Pa.