By Heather Collins
The second annual Madrigal dinner will be held at 6 p.m. Dec. 10 at First Friends Church, 3030 Kessler Blvd. East Dr. in Indianapolis. The Madrigal Dinner will feature entertainment by Carmel-based choral ensemble, VOCE.
VOCE rehearses at St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church on Main St in Carmel.
VOCE will perform a variety of traditional music as well as skits for the authentic Madrigal dinner show. Last year, VOCE performed various Monty Python skits to a sold-out show.
The evening will be narrated by a court jester called the Lord of Misrule. The skits will focus on the Knights of the Roundtable. VOCE will perform a variety of songs including “The Holly and the Ivy,” “The Boar’s Head Carol,” “The Flaming Pudding Carol” and “O Magnum Mysterium.” The choral ensemble will be accompanied by instrumentalists and trumpet fanfares. The ensemble will be dressed in costumes created by a member of St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church.
“It’s an authentic medieval dinner,” said Mary Dawn Krege, a 12-year member and board member of VOCE. “We’ll have a lot of humor skits.”
According to Krege, a majority of the members of the 16-piece ensemble are from Carmel and Fishers.
“You can’t miss this outstanding evening of excellent food, wonderful merriment and delightful music,” said Ron Iacocca, treasurer of VOCE.
Iacocca also helped plan the meal for the evening and said the meal will be prepared from scratch. The menu will include homemade soup and French bread, wild rice chicken cooked with dried fruits and spices, glazed carrots and homemade bread pudding with toffee sauce and whipped cream.
Admission is $50. Tickets can be purchased at voceindy.com/upcomingevents. For more, visit voceindy.com.
