ASTER presents “Make ‘Em Laugh”

Posted on August 2, 2025 by Debbie

Saturday, November 15th at 2 PM

Click here for a recording on YouTube of this concert.

At the Broomfield United Methodist Church in the Chapel**

Admission: $20 Adults $15 Students and Seniors

ASTER is taking a lighthearted turn with this concert. The mirth-filled music we have chosen will bring gentle smiles, belly laughs, giggles and guffaws.

Colorado composer Kari Kraakevik’s new work “Quire in Qwerty – That Almost Sentient Mechanism” for choir, piano and amplified typewriter will be premiered and is guaranteed to make you think differently about the quick brown fox who jumps over the lazy dog!

Selections by soloists from the choir include “Summer in Ohio”, “Whatever Happened to My Part”, “What a Movie”, “This Place is Mine”, and “All for the Best”. Choral works include “I Sing, You Sing” by the Real Group, a setting of parlor game poems by Jane Austen and her Mother and “Would Like to Meet” which tells the tale of an energetic sea lion looking for love.

The choir has surprises in store for you!

** Note: Due to renovations at the Broomfield Auditorium, this concert will be presented at a different venue.

ASTER Women’s Chamber Choir is 25 years old!

Posted on February 8, 2025 by Debbie

ASTER is excited to be celebrating this landmark birthday. The Joint will be Jumpin’! Riddle Songs, Stuttering Lovers, duets, solos and guests playing flute and guitar will liven up this musical party.

We are honored to introduce you to an inspirational piece composed by local singer, author and speaker Sara Giita Flores. I Rise encourages us all to take the risk to blossom. Good advice for a choir named after a flower! Those who have followed ASTER for some time will recognize Sara as one of the members of the choir and a soloist with a commanding stage presence. Now, you will get to know her as a conductor when the choir premieres I Rise.

The concert includes music by other women composers. How Can I Keep from Singing by Gwyneth Walker, Breaths by Sweet Honey in the Rock’s Ysaye M. Barnwell, She Sings by Amy F. Bernon and Eline Hagenberg’s stunning setting of O Love that Will Not Let Me Go.

There is Plenty Good Room for you at the party. Rumor has it that it will be an Unclouded Day.

Saturday, April 12, 2025, at 2 PM at the Broomfield Auditorium

The concert will be live streamed for those who are unable to attend in person on this website. Here is the link to BCAH to watch. Select “LIVE’ to view the concert. This link should also work to the live concert. Click here for the program.

Admission:
Adult: $20
Students and Seniors: $15 Or click here for the link to tickets.

Broomfield Symphony Orchestra and Aster Choir Holiday Program

Posted on October 5, 2024 by Debbie

ASTER Women’s Chamber Choir partnered with the Broomfield Symphony Orchestra for our December concert, and it was a hit! If you would like to learn more about the BSO or purchase tickets to one of their concerts at the Broomfield Auditorium, visit their website at https://broomfieldsymphony.org/ Their upcoming February 15th concert will feature guests from the Boulder Opera Company and highlight selections from Carmen, Don Carlo, and La Traviata.

ASTER sang an a cappella set which includes playful pieces from Scandinavia and seasonal favorites Away in the Manger, Carol of the Bells and White Christmas.

** Note: Sadly, no livestream was available for this special program. **

ASTER Women’s Chamber Choir presents “All the Way Home”

Posted on February 10, 2024 by Debbie

Saturday, April 13th at 2 PM at the Broomfield Auditorium (the AUDI), 3 Community Park Road, Broomfield CO.

This concert is about home, sweet home. To demonstrate that we read and respond to your evaluation forms and suggestions, ASTER will be performing more familiar songs with roots in classic rock and musical theater at this concert! Selections include “Somewhere That’s Green,” “Our House,” and “Celebrate Me Home,” along with pieces which sing the praises of chili and colcannon.

Our guest artists are the Bond Duo who will perform unique stylings of spirituals and other audience suggestions including “Take Me Home,” “Country Road.” You won’t want to miss Geoff Bond’s virtuoso guitar playing! Kristin Hyser, the Executive Director of the Broomfield Housing Alliance will offer comments and questions to help us remember or discover just what “home” means to each of us.

Click here for the program in PDF format.

Admission: $20 Adults, $15 Students and Seniors available at the door or on Humanatix.

ASTER Women’s Chamber Choir presents “Surprising Shakespeare”

Posted on September 20, 2023 by Debbie

Saturday, October 28th at 2 PM at the AUDI. Click here for a PDF copy of the Program.

Shakespeare has influenced playwrights and composers from the time his plays were first performed (in London around 1592) to the present day. ASTER will offer pieces heard during Shakespeare’s lifetime, a charming set of acapella works by composer Amy Beach, a jazzy set by Clifford Stillwell, Jr., and excerpts from the musicals Kiss Me Kate and West Side Story. Actors will perform soliloquies and sonnets to round out the concert.