Pretty Girls Sing Soprano will perform live at the Brunswick UU Church for their Concerts for a Cause series at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 12, at the church at 1 Middle St. in Brunswick. Proceeds from the concert will be used for this season’s charities: Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program and the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project.
After having to cancel 14 concerts because of the pandemic, Concerts for a Cause is once again hosting benefit concerts using strict COVID protocols. A maximum of 120 seats will be sold (about ½ the normal capacity), and seats will be spaced 6 feet apart (or in family pods). All people must be masked and fully vaccinated and will provide a phone number for contact tracing purposes. No food or drink is allowed in the sanctuary.
Since their inception Pretty Girls Sing Soprano have quickly turned heads and gained a loyal following with their tight, clever and original harmonies, whether singing covers of great songs or singing originals written by their own Deana Gurney. Ingrid Ayer-Richardson plays guitar or ukulele, and Gurney plays keyboards. Their harmonies are the only other instruments that they use. It is hard to describe their genre because they literally do a little bit of everything.
Pretty Girls Sing Soprano all met through Women in Harmony, a women’s vocal chorus based in Portland. In 2010 Ayer-Richardson asked Susan Matthews if she would like to form a duo to sing a variety of fun songs. Three months later, they had a set list and did their first performance at a coffeehouse in Saco. A short time after that, they added another chorus member to the group, Shelly Kirkpatrick, and played about 60-75 gigs a year around the Portland and Midcoast area. About 3 ½ years ago, Gurney, the accompanist for Women in Harmony replaced Kirkpatrick, and the group has grown even more in popularity.
The Pretty Girls will sing to your soul and leave you with a smile as they perform a variety of songs from bluegrass, folk, traditional to country and rock-n-roll.
Tickets cost $12 in advance, $15 at door, or $5 for students and children.
For tickets, or more information, call 207-729-8515 or visit ticketstripe.com/prettygirls.