Who knew, when this website first launched, that in less than a year we would have five excellent composers on our choral music team!  RedHouse is pleased to welcome Ed Alstrom to the fold.  Ed has a B.M. from Westminster Choir College, and is currently serving as Music Director at Church of the Redeemer in Morristown, NJ (www.redeemermorristown.org). His small-but-mighty choir has performed several of his choral compositions, has an active presence on YouTube, and will be doing some of the demo recordings for the RedHouse choral pages. 

Ed is also the Weekend Organist at Yankee Stadium, and is very active in the New York area as a keyboard player, guitarist and singer in several different bands. He has released 3 CDs under his name and played on many others; has played with Bette Midler, Chuck Berry, Steely Dan, and many other luminaries; and is an experienced Broadway/off-Broadway pit musician. www.edalstrom.com.

Please join RedHouse Arts in welcoming Dr. John Stallsmith to our growing team of choral composers.

Dr. Stallsmith teaches music at Bevill State Community College in Jasper, Alabama.  He is organist and choir director at the First United Methodist Church and organist at St. Cecilia's Catholic Church of Jasper. Dr. Stallsmith is an active teacher, performer, composer, conductor, and clinician.

RedHouse's performing troupes The Prattsbottom Mummers and The Occasional Terpsichore are gearing up for their annual participation in Wassail!  Rehearsals have begun for the December 19 performance at Sri Atmananda Memorial School, 4100 Red River, 5:30 pm.  This family friendly production celebrates both the solstice and Christmas with live music, dance, mummers play, magic, poetry, storytelling, apple howling and more.  $10 donation requested at the door.  All proceeds benefit Kids for Kids, a charitable organization helping out the children of the Darfur region of the Sudan.

The St. Andrews United Church choir in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has sent us this recording of Chanticleer from the RedHouse choral catalog.  Thank you, St. Andrews, and director Kevin Parks!

RedHouse Arts is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Donald Appert to our growing team of choral composers.  Dr. Appert is the Music Director/Conductor of the Clark College Orchestra in Vancouver, WA where he is a Professor of Music and Head of the Music Department. In addition he is the Music Director/Conductor of the Oregon Sinfonietta in Portland, Oregon and the Sanctuary Choir Director for the First United Methodist Church of Vancouver, Washington.

Welcome to RedHouse, Dr. Appert. 

RedHouse Arts now has a resident chamber ensemble/world music band, Plures Via. The name is Latin for "many roads" and aptly describes this new musical venture.  The players come from classical, folk and musical theatre backgrounds, with a collection of acoustic instruments ranging from cello and oboe to didgeridoo and hurdy gurdy.  The repertoire will encompass music from the medieval, renaissance, and world (ethnic) music canons as well as original compositions by ensemble members and contemporary composers such as Arvo Pärt.


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Chris Humphrey has been cast in Bernie, the newest film by director Richard Linklater, starring Jack Black in the title role, with supporting roles played by Matthew McConaughey and Shirley McLaine.  Shooting begins this month.

More marketplace pages will be added soon, bringing you unique handcrafted jewelry and percussion instruments.

RedHouse Arts is the official rehearsal space for this blues duo whose new CD Sound Like Somethin' Fell Off the House will be distributed by Stobie Sounds of Adelaide, Australia.  The CD was released on July 31 at TC's Lounge, Austin, TX, 8 pm.  RedHouse Arts congratulates Old Gray Mule and wishes them every success.