Holiday Harmonies

Holiday Harmonies at Folly Theater

December in Kansas City invites you to step into something rare: voices lifting together without a single instrument, no accompaniment except breath and harmony. Holiday Harmonies brings Central Standard and Vocal Standard—two barbershop choruses—to the Folly Theater, joined by chapter quartets for an evening when human voices create every note of the season.

Barbershop a cappella reveals dimensions you won't catch when piano or orchestra fills in the gaps. Each voice carries melodic responsibility; every blend arrives through listening and precision. The sacred and secular holiday music that fills the program gains warmth from that simplicity, melodies passed forward by singers rather than strings.

Two choruses bring different collections of voices to the sacred and secular holiday program, giving listeners more than one way into its harmonies. Chapter quartets offer another pleasure: a smaller group making the blend itself the center of attention.

At the Folly Theater in Kansas City on December 12, the evening belongs to singing alone. The contrast between full choruses and chapter quartets gives the program room to explore how much character unaccompanied voices can bring to holiday music.

Holiday Harmonies makes voices the entire musical palette. Find tickets for the Folly Theater performance and enjoy a holiday program built from harmony rather than instruments.