The conference space at the Highliner Inn was packed with music lovers on May 29 as the Prince Rupert Rotary Choir presented the 21st annual Sweet Serenade concert.
The choir offered up a diverse musical showing, opening with a set that featured traditional English, Irish and spiritual songs and was wrapped up with the locally composed Seafest Song. The second set opened with a traditional Yiddish song before the singers moved into a medley of songs from Fiddler on the Roof and finished the set with the traditional Hava Nagila. The choir’s final set was a bit more modern, featuring songs like Are You Lonesome Tonight and Lean on Me and a Golden Age of Broadway medley, but also featuring the locally penned Charles Melville Hays Requiem.
After three sets from the choir, the Senior Jazz Ensemble got the place rocking with a six song set that included the swinging Swing Fever, the funky Buffalo Head, the up-tempo Rock This Town and concluded with the traditionally closing Great Shark Hunt.