Love's in Need of Love

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Sunday, November 24th, 2024
3:00 PM

Island Soul Choir is delighted to introduce Tom Arntzen as our new Music Director. Tom is an established artist who is well known as a vocalist, keyboardist, composer, arranger, producer, musical director, teacher, and actor. He can sing and play any style of music, and has made a living performing and recording for over 40 years.

For this concert, he has included Stevie Wonder’s Love’s in Need of Love Today, The Beatles’ Because, the Blues Brothers’ cover of Solomon Burke’s Everybody Needs Somebody To Love, and Jon Boutté’s Tremé Song. He has also included one of his own original songs, as well as his arrangements of a medley of three 60s pop songs, and a traditional Zimbabwean proverb. The choir will also reprise two of Brian Tate’s songs: One Million Voices, a song dedicated to all those who have the courage to speak out against the abuse of power, and Om Mani Padme Hum, a transcendental arrangement of an Sanskrit mantra to create calm and healing.

We are so excited by Tom's talent that he has agreed to be our opening act for this concert so that you, our audience, can get to know him and experience his talent first hand.

Island Soul Choir is a community choir in its purest sense. The choir welcomes members from all over Vancouver Island, from Victoria to Port Hardy to Bamfield and Ucluelet, as well as Gabriola, Protection, Salt Spring, Cortes, Lasqueti and Quadra Islands. Members don’t need to have any prior choir experience; they may not even know how to read music — they just need to love to sing. There’s definitely safety in numbers for newcomers, both in-person and online, to find their singing voice within this choir.