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Located in Sturbridge, MA 01518

Wings of Song sings about Home

STURBRIDGE – Capping a three-year exploration on the theme of HOME, local community chorus Wings of Song comes home once again with a pair of probing, moving concerts on Saturday and Sunday, May 17th and 18th.

In 2023, the chorus sang of Planet Earth, our “Blue Boat Home” in the Universe. The following year, “Rough Seas, Safe Harbor” explored what it meant to be far from home for one or two years at a time, then to return. In 2025, it’s time for “Here Is My Home,” a deep dive into what home has meant to Americans and to people around the world over the years. Home, for many of us, is our only real sanctuary, our safe harbor, the place where we can be most fully ourselves, the place where all our beloved stuff is, the place where we’re with the ones we love, the place where we prepare and share meals, the place we’re proud to welcome our friends into. Readers of this article will surely recognize the blessed feeling, after days or weeks of traveling, of coming home—home to your one’s place.

In “Here Is My Home,” Wings of Song will sing about yearning for home, waiting to finally go home, savoring the comforts and consolations of home, being welcomed home, the call of home, cherishing our planetary home, home as community, home as various forms of communal expression such as music, a home “on God’s celestial shore,” having one’s home taken away by invasion or by a governmental directive, home as a particular beloved geographical region, home as reunion with those we love best. The program won’t touch on all the meanings of home—but it’ll make a good start!

As always, there will be audience singalongs, including the concerts’ theme song “Here Is My Home,” and also “Home, Sweet Home,” easily the most popular American song of the 1800s. A follow-up article will profile many of the songs the chorus will be singing. Expect tremendous variety, including some fine instrumental accompaniment.

On Saturday, May 17th at 7:30pm, the chorus will perform at St. Joachim Chapel, part of St. Anne – St. Patrick Parish, at 16 Church Street in Fiskdale (Sturbridge), MA. The next day, Sunday the 18th, the concert will take place at 3pm at Elm Street Congregational Church, 61 Elm Street, Southbridge, MA. Admission to both concerts is free, with a freewill offering collected around intermission time. Yummy free refreshments will be served after each concert. Both concert venues are handicap-accessible. Arrive early to be sure of a seat!

For more information about these concerts or about singing with Wings of Song, people may email Wings of Song President Carol Curtin (carolcurtin77@gmail.com) or Music Director Cooke (nymcooke@gmail.com). Find us at wingsofsong.org