Yearly Archives: 2015

Come Celebrate Mardi Gras – 2/7/2015

We are pleased to announce our 6th Annual Mardi Gras Celebration on Saturday, February 7 at Windows on the River from 6:30 – 11:00 p.m. This year’s event will benefit NCMC and our youth outreach program. Honorees are the Fine Arts Association Youth Camp Program and Family Karate/Sidekick Foundation.

Come for this night of music, merriment and masquerade that has become the signature event of the year! The evening includes a performance by NCMC directed by Artistic Director Richard Cole, a number of featured soloists, superb Bourbon Street cuisine, a live and silent auction and a Mystery French Quarter Wall with a top prize of a $500 mystery item. Come festooned in your best mask to win top honors in our Spectacular Mask Contest. All this plus other Mardi Gras traditions such as throwing beads, king cake and tossing coins.

Kick up that February thermometer a couple notches with some hot Louisiana-style fun! Tickets are on $50 and reservations are available here or by calling the NCMC office at 216-556-0590 before Thursday, February 5 at 9:00 p.m.

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eNotes Receives Recognition

The North Coast Men’s Chorus’ newsletter – eNotes – has been named a 2014 All Star Award winner by Constant Contact®, Inc., the trusted marketing advisor to more than 600,000 small organizations worldwide. The award, given annually to the top 10% of Constant Contact’s international customer base, recognizes these select businesses and nonprofits for their significant achievements leveraging online marketing tools to engage their customer base and drive success for their organization. NCMC is one such exemplary organization.


Constant Contact customers using the company’s online marketing tools are eligible for this award. Criteria used to select this year’s All Stars included the following:

  • Level of engagement with email campaigns
  • Open, bounce, and click-through rates
  • Use of social sharing features
  • Use of mailing list sign-up tools
  • Use of reporting tools

Chris Litster, senior vice president of sales and marketing, Constant Contact said, “We’re thrilled to recognize NCMC for their commendable achievements in 2014 with this All Star Award.”

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NCMC Announces Clinician for Winter Retreat

The members of NCMC will be holding a weekend retreat with a special guest clinician. The guys will work with the clinician all day Saturday studying vocal techniques, proper breathing, and completing other exercises to improve their skills. Then, on Sunday morning, we will hold our regular rehearsal.

We are very pleased and honored this year to have Eileen Marie Moore, of Cleveland State University as our clinician. Moore, a Soprano, received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in voice from Indiana University, and has been on the voice faculty at Cleveland State University since 1987. She has performed with the Ensemble Sequentia in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, New York City and Washington, D.C., and she has appeared at the Cloisters as the “tangy, lithe” Magdalena (Andrew Porter, The New Yorker) in the premiere of the 13 th century greater passion play of Carmina Burana. Equally at home in concert, operatic and recital venues, Ms. Moore regularly premieres new works to critical acclaim, such as David Wolfson’s A Woman’s Life and Loves at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City, and her own “imaginative and impressive” recital on the theme of Orpheus (Donald Rosenberg, the Plain Dealer). She sang the Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 as her Akron Symphony debut, and has been the featured soloist for several premieres with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony. She has also appeared with the Suburban Symphony, at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Ms. Moore made her Cleveland Opera debut as Cis in Albert Herring, and has sung leading roles in the world premieres of several American operas throughout the Mid-west. She was a featured soloist with the Robert Page Cleveland Singers for 10 years, and has premiered the works of many local composers in Cleveland Composers Guild’s Vocal Recitals and faculty recitals at Cleveland State University. Since 1998 she has performed with guitarist Don Better as The Moore/Better Duo, specializing in multi-national folksong. Ms. Moore also directs youth orchestras at two area churches for which she writes/arranges all the music. She has also written nearly 70 children’s operas since 1992 as a Music Mentor for Cleveland Opera’s Music!Words!Opera! program.

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Bunnies and Duckies and Bears – Oh My!

The North Coast Men’s Chorus participated in the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony April 17th of Providence House’s Prentiss Wellness Nursery. This Wellness Nursery is safe place for children in crisis with medical needs and forms of developmental disabilities, whose parents maybe struggling to cope with their children’s medical care, possibly challenged with homeless or unsafe living conditions.  Providence House spoke to their appreciation, support and donation.

 

The pictures reflect what a wonderful gift we gave these children in crisis with medical needs. The goal of the Wellness Center is to provide needed services to at least 100 children within the first year of opening.  The North Coast Men’s Chorus presented these children with 100 stuffed animals to help them feel more comfortable and to provide them something to hold on to that will stay with them through their time in the Center.

 

The ceremony was hosted by Natalie Leek-Nelson and her staff, the Board represented by Duane Bishop, Jr., Board Chair and Vice President and COO of Forest City Enterprises. Sister Hope Greener, C.S.J. Providence House Founder, did the Opening Prayer and there were many members of the community present. Some of the speakers at the ceremony were Armond Budish, Cuyahoga County Executive, Joe Cimperman, Ward 3 City Councilman. The closing of the ceremony with the ribbon cutting was with a blessing for the Wellness Nursery by Pastor Allen Harris, Franklin Circle Church who spoke of the children and what a blessing it was to serve our community in the care of these children.

 

NCMC will continue to support Providence House as we have in the past with “Deck the House” and in some of the Mardi Gras events raising funds to support their Mission. In the future the Chorus hopes to support an outdoor clean up and landscaping day.

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Free Coastliners Concert in Hudson – This SUNDAY, May 31

The Coastliners have been invited back to perform a concert as part of the Hudson Bandstand Summer Music Festival on Sunday, May 31 from 7:00 PM-9:00 PM at the Gazebo Green, 27 East Main Street, Hudson, OH 44236. Nearly 2 hours of Coastliner craziness and beautiful music, so bring your lawn chair or a blanket and spend a lovely evening in Hudson with the guys. Best part of the event – it’s FREE! (OK, Hudson does take up a free will offering during the evening, but it will still be cheap, fun entertainment that is great for the whole family.)

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Murder By Hypnosis

Murder By Hypnosis

6th Annual Murder Mystery Dinner

Brennan’s Party Center
13000 Triskett Rd., Cleveland
Saturday, October 10, 2015 6-11 PM

Join the North Coast Men’s Chorus for an event that has become a sidesplitting tradition! Enjoy signature cocktails and a 3 course dinner as a scene of mystery, murder, and not a little comedy unfolds before your eyes. Watch for clues and solve the murder while you bid on our live and silent auction and tempt fate in our reverse raffle boards!

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Those 7 Little Words (I Love You So You’re Probably Gay)

Those 7 Little Words

(I Love You So You’re Probably Gay)

Near West Theatre
6702 Detroit Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44102

Saturday, August 22, 2015
7 pm Cocktail Hour, 8 pm Performance

Greta Rothman revives her one woman (and several talented men) show to benefit the North Coast Men’s Chorus! First seen at the famous “Rose’s Turn” in NYC, Those Seven Little Words is the story of a girl with an uncanny knack of falling for gay men. This hilarious updated version includes new songs and hilarious new dialogue that follows our heroine home to Cleveland!

Those 7 Little Words (I Love You So You’re Probably Gay)2016-11-10T20:18:59-05:00

NCMC Joins L’Arche Cleveland on their CD

If you are looking for a great cause to support, look no further than L’Arche Cleveland and their “very Cleveland” holiday fundraiser. The organization is collaborating with Cleveland State University Music Therapy students, as well as community and school choral groups from throughout Cleveland to create a holiday CD. Performers include the Gesu Children’s Choir, the North Coast Men’s Chorus, the Temple Tifereth Israel, the Horns and Things Jazz Band, church choirs from St Agnes and St Raphael and John Adams, the famed Cleveland Indians Drummer! NCMC recorded their two tracks on Thursday evening for this exciting project!
“It is our belief that singing together creates a bond of closeness that no other activity can,” said Rebecca Brady, Community Leader. “The feeling of connection that comes from singing together with others goes hand in hand with our mission to help people with developmental disabilities share their gifts with others while building transforming community relationships.” CDs will be sold ($10) to help raise funds to support the residents of L’Arche Cleveland.
L’Arche Cleveland has four homes in which persons with developmental disabilities live and share their lives with assistants and volunteers. The L’Arche community will be the primary performers on the holiday CD project. All other collaborators will be local, as L’Arche wants to ensure the entire project reflects the gifts and talents of the Cleveland community.   The staff of L’Arche Cleveland asks anyone who is touched by the mission of the organization to please support this project by visiting the website to preorder their CD at larchecleveland.org and also share the project with others.
About L’Arche Cleveland
Founded in 1975, L’Arche Cleveland has four loving homes – one in Cleveland Heights, one in Maple Heights, and two in Cleveland near Shaker Square – in which “core members” (persons with developmental disabilities who are at the “core” of the community) live and share their lives with assistants and volunteers.

NCMC Joins L’Arche Cleveland on their CD2016-11-10T20:18:59-05:00

Our 70’s Show

Our 70s Show

Saturday Evening: April 16, 2016 @ 8 PM
Sunday Matinee: April 17, 2016 @ 3 PM

Regina Auditorium @ Notre Dame College
1857 S Green Rd., South Euclid, OH 44121

Following on the heels of last season’s Welcome to the Sixties!, we move on to the decade that brought us the best of Funk, Soul, R&B, Pop, Hard Rock, Soft Rock and, of course, Disco! You’ll hear classics from Elton John, the Bee Gees, James Taylor, Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac and many, many more! So dig out your platform shoes and leisure suits and join in on the fun!

Level A – $35 per ticket
Level B – $25 per ticket
Level C – $15 per ticket

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