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CRESCENT CHOIR
A choral project led by Sophia Corinne, bringing original music by local artists to life.

Rooted in the Asheville area, Crescent Choir brings skilled musicians and experienced singers together to make ambitious new work. The project is made up of two interconnected ensembles: Crescent Choir, a larger mixed-voice choir, and Moon Choir, a small femme-centered ensemble that grows out of the full group. Together, they form a single artistic container devoted to collaboration, rigorous listening and music-making, sharing carefully shaped work through live performance.

Featuring Amanda Neill of The Blue Roses
Video by @fiasco.media @bluerosesband @phiabird @crescent_choir
Audio by @outtherestudioswnc
#choirdirector #choirlife #choirconcert

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Loved getting to sing one of my songs again w/ @crescent_choir at the exhibition opening of Holding Together at @madisoncountyarts, curated by dear friend/ landmate @amberm.jensen!

This event mixed mediums, featuring the work of 17 artists, including a choreographed dance short film + music by @crescent_choir. When the film ended, the choir started singing while scattered throughout the audience, holding together through the music.🤍 Thankful to have been a small thread in something beautiful. I love to see people coming together!

🎥: @_.its.cait_ 📷: @julileonardphoto @davis.kerstin @_.its.cait_ @milkhouse_arts

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Oh yes that was a time - Lightning Bug 2026 (through the lens of John Kretschmer)

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1. Perma-tears face wode thanks to lactaria indigo. And tiny behind me, tender companions who held me through more seizures and also solved a Rubik’s cube together! Not pictured- the best, longest, strongest, loveliest swim I have had in almost two years at least. I was alive for that moment and will never forget it. So happy, I wept.

2.,3. @crescent_choir singing my song at the re-opening of @madisoncountyarts and welcoming home of @amberm.jensen . What a beautiful and powerful collection of so much art!!! And so many lovely people! What a privilege to be a part of it.

4. The water that held me. The land that held the water. And the sun that warmed me.

5. A lovely flyer by @primrosecoke to remind you all not to miss this epic day of such lovely lovely music by some of the most heartfelt, kind, tender hearted, wizardly musicians I have ever known, and a collection of crankie shows and shadow puppets that are not to be missed!!! Saturday, Aug. 22, 1pm-Sundown, on Blannahasset Island. If you get your 🎟️ in advance, they will be cheaper. Check my stories to get yours!

6. We (me and friends!) are one of the aforementioned crankie and shadow puppet shows at the Tea Tent Fête! 5:30-6pm.
This set of stories and songs have not been performed for many years, so this will be a real treat. First time with a vocal ensemble, a freshly dressed crankie box, new puppeteer, more lights and colors and every detail has had so much tender care put into it. Tears will be shed. (These stories deal with the topic of death, but in a child appropriate way, and with poetry and beauty, and it ends on a very celebratory and enlivening note.)

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Opening Friday, August 14th at the @madisoncountyarts.

Our very own @amberm.jensen in Studio 106, curated, Holding Together, which brings together artists from Western North Carolina and across the country whose work explores care, resilience, craft, and connection in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
Come out for the opening which will have a special musical performance by the @crescent_choir

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My body continues to be an alien landscape, and also the most familiar of places. I make my home in it the only ways I know how. By loving, by swimming, and by making.

So here’s some upcoming times to enjoy the things I’ve been making!!!

Friday, Aug. 14, 7:30-8pm - @crescent_choir will be performing a short set (including one of my songs!) as part of the opening reception of the new Mad Co Arts Council show, “Holding Together: Cloth, Material & Making” (curated by @amberm.jensen )

Saturday, Aug. 22, 1pm-Sundown - Tea Tent Fête!!! (Blannahasset Island). This event is to support the continuation of our beloved Tea Tent, and there will be so so many lovely and amazing musicians all day, and a handful of amazing crankies and shadow puppets also being performed…including, my very own crankies and shadow show! Moonglow Shadow Show will be performing from 5:30-6pm, but please be sure to come for all the rest of the magic!

Sunday, Aug. 23, 7:30pm - The Hermit dance! @ritualmovement555
This dance has been a long-awaited opportunity for me to alchemize some of my intense experience being often bedbound and disabled up on this hill. The set is going to be epic, and the altar sculpture will be a magic portal! So much more to say about it, but just wanted to make sure you all get it on your calendars!

And last but not least:
Thursday, Sep. 17 - Save the date for the first day of the fall season of @resound.community.choir ! We are working hard behind the scenes and will have more details to share soon.

I love you all! Thanks for being my reason to keep on living!

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Part 2 — I told somebody this felt like being in a hot air balloon as it lifts off the ground. Music and togetherness are powerful. Thank you for the best season. @crescent_choir at AVL Masonic Temple + @rare_bird_farm 🤍

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Still reeling from last weekend’s shows with @crescent_choir

Here’s a little moment from a song most of you have never heard before. Oceans of gratitude to my bandmates on this one:
@mothermarrow
@heyritka
@chelsolanacea
@calicosound
@findbosco
@southernpinemusic
@alligayytor

Thank you for holding this one with me 🕯️💫

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First time singing my song w/ a full choir 😭
(Part 1 of 2) AVL Masonic Temple w/ @crescent_choir 🤍

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Tonight I’ll be performing a very special show at @masonictempleasheville alongside this wonderful and talented group of humans.

My experience working with @crescent_choir has changed the way I think about making music. As many of you know, I’ve spent the better part of the last decade working as a solo artist, so this has been a total 180° from that! It has been such an honor to reimagine my songs for this 26+ person ensemble. This is so much more than a choir. This group is a moving, shifting, multi-organismic instrument of tenderness, healing, warmth, and reverence.

Tonight we’ll be performing music from nine different WNC artists, including 3 of my own songs from my forthcoming album.

This was my first time arranging for a full ensemble like this. So, naturally, I took that as far as I could reasonably take it 😏

The arrangements for my songs are ambitious, to say the least, especially given that we only had a 6 week window in which to create and learn them.

It’s also worth acknowledging that several of our choir members (myself included) have done this while battling complex health conditions. This group rose to those challenges with such grace, holding each other all the way, and further suffusing this music with meaning in ways I could never have imagined. I could not be more proud of us for what we’ve accomplished together.

Yesterday we performed at Rare Bird Farm’s Lightning Bug Festival and it was pure magic. Tonight will be the choir’s final performance of the season. There are still some tickets left for this one at the link in my bio. Hope you can make it 🕯️💫

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Tonight’s the night! (Masonic Temple tkts in bio). When I first joined this choir, I didn’t know anyone, but I knew that moment was the only time we’d be strangers, bc music has a way of uniting. What a deep experience it has been. I love looking around at their faces when we sing- so pure, so real- honestly it breaks my heart in the best way, like seeing a newborn baby. Hope to see you tonight. I love being a part of something so much larger than myself.

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