Community Lunch Concert

Third Wednesday, Community Lunch Hour Concert on Wednesday, April 17, 2013, 12:15-1:15pm at the Tualatin Heritage Center, 8700 SW Sweek Drive, Tualatin, OR 97062 Guest Musicians: The Whispering Roses, www.whisperingroses.net Cost: Door only, $10, all community. Please note cash or check only. Production by www.IrishPDX.com Notes: Bring your brown paper sack lunch and enjoy an hour of some of the best music by one of the top players in the world! Whispering Roses - For the past nine years, Whispering Roses has delighted audiences at festivals and concerts throughout the northwest with their unique blend of Celtic, sacred and folk music. Sarah (piano, vocals), Janna (Celtic harp, vocals), Krista (recorders, vocals) and Kathrina (violin, vocals), the four sisters who form Whispering Roses, each began music lessons at the age of three, and grew up playing and singing together. In 1999, at the encouragement of their parents, the girls started sharing their music at local retirement homes and events. Whispering Roses debuted in the Portland music scene in 2004 when they were first invited to perform at The Grotto's Christmas Festival of Lights, the largest Christmas choral festival in the world. Their home-grown Celtic style was a refreshing change of pace for the festival and Whispering Roses has been invited to return every year since. With their family, the girls released their debut CD in 2007, Journey Through The Highlands. The title track earned Krista an award at the national level of the NFMC composition festival. Since then, Whispering Roses has steadily gained a following in Portland, playing standing-room-only concerts in coffee houses throughout the area and putting on their own popular Celtic Christmas concerts each year. Feeling the need for masculine energy, the girls incorporated their brother Noah into the band, welcoming his strong, rhythmic performances on guitar. As the band of siblings has grown musically, released two more CDs, and