The Evensong Choir

The Evensong Choir is a collaboration of Christ Church Portola Valley & Woodside, Christ Church Los Altos, St. Mark’s Palo Alto, and St. Bede’s Menlo Park. Our clergy, music directors, organists, and choirs come together to plan four Evensong services per year, one at each collaborating church.

Evensong is a traditional Anglican service that typically takes place near sunset. Unlike Sunday morning worship, the service does not include communion or a sermon, but instead focuses on scripture, prayer, and music. Evensong services are approximately one hour long.

Our October 5th service at St. Bede’s highlighted the feast of St. Francis and included works by Unterseher, Ayleward, Rutter, and Gabriel Jackson. The second program of the year on November 23rd celebrated our shared feast day with Christ Church Los Altos and featured works by Hogan, McDonald, Harris, and Webster. On February 22nd at St. Mark’s, centered Black composers and arrangers including Wilbur Held, Florence Price, and Eurydice Osterman. We ended the year with an Evensong at Christ Church Portola Valley, and an Ascension Day Eucharist at Stanford Memorial Church, which also included neighboring Lutheran churches.

Our upcoming services are:

Save the date for our next Evensong at Christ Church Portola Valley & Woodside on September 27th, and look for more information soon about more services in the year to come!