Famous Brazilian samba gets a cappella treatment!

by | Aug 19, 2016

At our upcoming concert, World Village Gospel Choir will perform an a cappella arrangement of Samba de Verão, sung here by famous Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto. This will be the choir’s first song in Portugese, and this song is so fun and so famous that its...

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

by | Aug 18, 2016

Do you remember the hilarious scene from the Coen Brother’s iconic movie “O Brother Where Are Thou” where three ne’er-do wells, freshly escaped from prison, stumble upon a local church’s riverside baptism ceremony? Well, the song from...

MORE A CAPPELLA!

by | Aug 12, 2016

Ok, now it’s going to get interesting – as we delve into our archive, we are amazed at home many a cappella (unaccompanied) songs we have done! Here’s one from the early days when the choir first got together for one of our very first performances in...

A CAPPELLA PAST HAPPENINGS

by | Aug 11, 2016

As our upcoming August 26th concert is all a cappella (unaccompanied” music, we though we’d go back into the “vaults” to see which performances we could share with you. We’re going to start off with a fundraiser we did a few years ago for...

World Village Gospel Choir – Unplugged!

by | Aug 10, 2016

World Village Gospel Choir presents: WVGC Unplugged! – an a cappella concert of gospel and world music from around the globe. The concert is 7:30 p.m. Fri. Aug. 26th at Knox United Church, 400 Edmonton St. Repertoire includes traditional world music songs in...