THE SCOTS ARE COMING! THE SCOTS ARE COMING!

City Bar Chorus - The Scots Are Coming!
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 7:15 p.m.

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The New York City Bar has a longstanding tradition of collaborating with other bar associations around the world. On July 21, such collaboration will turn musical, as the Faculty of Advocates Choir of Edinburgh, Scotland, joins the City Bar Chorus for the first time, in a festive concert marking the 213th anniversary of the death of Scotland's legendary poet Robert Burns. The choruses, both individually and combined, will present American and Scottish songs (with some Scottish poetry added to the mix) in a program conducted by Kathryn Schneider and Neil Beynon. After the Scottish choir found their City Bar counterparts through the Internet, planning for this transatlantic event began among Ross Macfarlane, Faculty of Advocates Choir Artistic Director; Neil Beynon, Faculty of Advocates Choir Musical Director; Kimberly Tate-Brown, City Bar Chorus Chair; and Kathryn Schneider, City Bar Chorus Musical Director.

Both choruses have distinguished performing resumes. The Scottish choir's concerts raise money for charitable causes in Edinburgh, and the group has also sung at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican and Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The City Bar Chorus has performed about 200 concerts since 1993 in community outreach venues throughout New York City, and has sung at Riverside Church (for a Visiting Nurse Service hospice memorial service) and on national and local television.

All City Bar members and friends are cordially invited to attend this concert and to welcome the Faculty of Advocates Choir on its first trip to New York. Voluntary donations will be gratefully accepted to benefit the City Bar Justice Center.