Music in the Nave

03/07/2026

Still figuring out your Saturday plans? Come experience Music in the Nave’s An Afternoon of Gospel featuring this incredible group of performers. You won’t want to miss this uplifting afternoon of music!

🕒 Today at 3 PM
📍 St. Andrew’s Parish
🎟️ $20 at https://bit.Ly/WandaHouston or at the door

We can’t wait to see you there!

03/07/2026

Our last introduction is pianist, Michael Brown!🎹

Michael is the Gospel Choir Director at Sacred Heart University and the Director of Music at Litchfield Congregational Church.

There’s still time to grab your tickets online! $20 at https://bit.Ly/WandaHouston

03/07/2026

Meet Janice Dempsey!🎤

Dempsey, who began her career as “Little Janice, The Gospel Singing Baby,” has released three solo albums on Epic and Geffen Records and has recorded with George Shearing and Edgar Winter, toured as a background singer for Melba Moore, and worked in various capacities with Freddie Jackson, Daryl Hall, Tom Jones, Roberta Flack, Mick Jagger, and Smokey Robinson.

Come hearJanice perform with Wanda Houston and Angela Clemmons TOMORROW afternoon at Music in the Nave’s An Afternoon of Gospel at St. Andrew’s Parish. Get your tickets at https://bit.Ly/WandaHouston🎟️

03/06/2026

Introducing Angela Clemmons!🎶

Angela Clemmons was raised in the church, singing in the choir from toddlerhood, as the daughter of a Pentecostal pastor and choir director. Her professional career began at age twelve in To***co Road at Westport Country Playhouse, which opened the door to her 40+ year recording career and performances with renowned artists. In 2001, Angela founded Shoreline Soul, a community gospel choir in Madison, CT, bringing the power of gospel music to a region where the genre is not widely represented. Following its success, Angela launched Valley Soul, a gospel choir sponsored by Griffin Hospital.

We cannot wait to welcome Angela at Music in the Nave’s An Afternoon of Gospel at St. Andrew’s Parish. Get your tickets for Saturday at https://bit.Ly/WandaHouston

03/04/2026

Get your tickets https://bit.Ly/WandaHouston‼️

The Gospel Hour‼️ … starts this Saturday March 7th at 3 PM.

03/04/2026

Get to know vocalist Wanda Houston!🎶

Wanda has performed on stages with Barbara Streisand, Patti Austin, Joe Cocker and Celine Dion, and has toured with Mary Wells, Martha and the Vandellas, and The Platters. She performed in off-Broadway’s “A Good Swift Kick” and Roundabout Theater’s “A Streetcar Named Desire,” and is featured on the album,  “Infinite Joy,” honoring “Falsettos” composer William Finn. She sang gospel since the age of three, performing as part of her family’s Houston Singers throughout the Midwest. In 2000 she joined Broadway Inspirational Voices, who’s album, “Great Joy: A Gospel Christmas” was nominated for a Grammy. She calls gospel, “My foundation, my root, my ancestral connection.”

🎟️Get your tickets for An Afternoon of Gospel THIS Saturday, March 7th, at 3pm at https://bit.Ly/WandaHouston

📍St. Andrew’s Parish 1 N Main Street, Kent CT

03/02/2026

Our first concert of 2026 is almost here!🎶

Music in the Nave presents An Afternoon of Gospel with Wanda Houston and friends!

📅Saturday, March 7
🕰️ 3pm
📍St. Andrew’s Parish 1 N Main Street, Kent CT
🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wanda-houston-friends-an-afternoon-of-gospel-tickets-1982720706005 or at the door!

12/12/2025

Our last soloist spotlight for tonight’s concert!👏

Paul Patinka is a pedagogue, freelance musician, and independent researcher in Providence, RI, while serving on the faculty at Salve Regina University. Having sung in ensembles with Opera San Antonio, Austin Opera, Opera Delaware, Annapolis Opera, and Boheme Opera NJ, Paul is currently a recitalist who avidly performs underrepresented composers.

TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE! Or come get them at the door!

🎟️ $25 at http://bit.ly/Handel25 or the link in bio!

12/12/2025

Friday night plans⁉️🎶

Come spend your evening with Music in the Nave for our annual Messiah sing-in!

It’s become a Litchfield County tradition to kick off the holidays with our event, so join the good cheer as James Sinclair leads the Sherman Chamber Ensemble and our superb vocal soloists in Part I of this beautiful work. And if you’re feeling it, join the chorus right from your seat!

➡️Friday, December 12th, at 8pm
📍St. Andrew’s Parish, 1 N Main St, Kent, CT 06757

🎟️Tickets are available now at HANDEL’S MESSIAH http://bit.ly/Handel25 or at the door for $25- students are free!

We can’t wait to see you there!🎶

12/11/2025

Meet mezzo-soprano soloist, Rebecca de Almeida!

A couple years before the pandemic Rebecca de Almeida switched her career as an awarded pianist to become a classical singer, and she is quickly establishing herself as one of the leading mezzo sopranos in Connecticut. She has performed a variety of operatic roles throughout the US, Latin America and Europe. In the 22-23 Season, the Brazilian mezzo made her debut at Carnegie Hall (in concert), in Italy as Giulio Cesare in Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto, and in Mexico as Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. The New Haven Register Shore Life wrote: “Rebecca de Almeida gave a staggeringly commanding performance as Carmen. I will be following her meteoric rise” about her debut as the title role of Bizet’s Carmen with OTC. Rebecca is honored to be a recurrent soloist with the New Haven Chorale, the CT Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra.

12/11/2025

Introducing our conductor, James Sinclair!

James is the Music Director of Orchestra New England and Executive Editor of the Charles Ives Society, overseeing a new scholarly edition of Ives’s complete works. Mr. Sinclair has made noted recordings of Ives’s music for Sony Records, Koch International Classics, and Naxos.