Which proves that whether you’re in Kansas or Kauai, a rainbow is made for dreaming.

We won’t bring Toto but we will bring the ukes when we sing Over the Rainbow at our upcoming concert at 1:30 p.m. Sat., Feb. 4, at St.  Katharine of Siena Church in Wayne.

Fun Facts:

• Over the Rainbow was written by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg.
• Arlen wrote the music for the song while he and his wife were driving down Sunset Boulevard on their way to Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.
• Israel K. called the recording studio at 3 a.m. to record his version, and he did it in one take. 

Now, imagine you could wrap that sunshine up and send it to someone special to brighten their day. And there you have it, John Denver’s 1973 contemporary folk hit that played all over the radio for weeks on end.

We’ll do it up right with a guitar accompaniment at our next concert performance, Sun, Moon & Stars, at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, at St. Katharine of Siena Church in Wayne. See you there!

Fun Facts:

• Sunshine on My Shoulders went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
• Denver wrote the song in Minnesota in late winter while in a melancholy frame of mind.
• It became the theme song of the 1973 movie Sunshine.
• Denver, an activist and humanitarian, died at 53 when the light plane he was piloting crashed in Monterey Bay in California.

Not to mention it’s cheaper and you don’t need a space suit.

We’ll help you lift off at our next concert performance, Sun, Moon & Stars, at 1:30 p.m. Sat., Feb. 4, at St. Katharine of Siena Church in Wayne.

Who needs gravity anyway?

Fun Facts

• This jazzy old standard by Bart Howard was first released in 1954 with Kaye Ballard on vocals.
• It has been covered by a host of singers, including Johnny Mathis, Eydie Gorme, Peggy Lee, Nancy Wilson and, of course, old blue eyes himself, Frank Sinatra.
• The Songwriters Hall of Fame inducted it as a “Towering Song” in 1999.
• The music publisher tried to get Howard to change “fly me to the moon” to “take me to the moon,” but Howard refused.
• Good for him.

And how could you not think about love under a canopy of stars? Love, and all the hopes and dreams you carry in your heart.

Join us to hear all about it at Sun, Moon & Stars, our next concert performance, featuring a heavenly host of classic and contemporary favorites. See you there at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, at St. Katharine of Siena Church in Wayne.

La-La-di-da…

Fun Facts:

• City of Stars was sung by Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in the 2016 movie La La Land.
• It won both a Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Song.
• The song has been covered in a variety of languages, from Greek to Korean to Chinese.

We love it! And we can’t wait to sing it to you at our next concert performance, Sun, Moon & Stars, at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, at St. Katharine of Siena Church in Wayne.

Come catch a few rays with us. Ahh…the perfect cure for the winter blues.

Fun Facts:

• George Harrison wrote Here Comes the Sun in 1969 at the home of friend and guitar legend Eric Clapton in Surrey, England.
• The song first appeared on the Beatles’ Abbey Road Album.
• George McGovern used the song during his campaign for president in 1972.
• In 1979, Harrison wrote Here Comes the Moon while on vacation in Hawaii.   

We can’t promise the raft when we perform this beautiful classic in our upcoming February concert, Sun, Moon & Stars. But thanks to Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer, we can promise the journey. It’s sure to conjure the romance and adventure of our most storied river.

Fun Facts:

• Moon River was composed by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer. It was performed by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s in 1961 and won an Academy Award for best original song.
• Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in 1884 in the UK and 1885 in the U.S. Other writers who have written about the Mississippi River include Herman Melville, Edna Ferber and George R.R. Martin.
• The name Mississippi comes from the Ojibwe Misi-ziibi, or Great River.
• The river is considered the most endangered river in the U.S. due to pollution and climate change.  

And what better dream is there than a dream of the one you love? It’s the perfect way to end the day. Okay, sitting in a bistro by the Seine with a glass of wine is pretty good, too. But you get the idea…sweet dreams.

We’ll be singing Dream a Little Dream of Me in our next concert performance, Sun, Moon & Stars, at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, at St. Katharine of Siena Church in Wayne. Come out and join us. We’ll have you dreaming in no time.

Fun Facts:

• This song was first recorded in 1931 by Ozzie Nelson of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet fame. It was later covered dozens of times, including versions recorded by Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, Doris Day and French singer Enzo Enzo.
• The most popular version was recorded by The Mamas and Papas in the 1960s, with Cass Elliot singing the solo.
• Cass did her own whistling on the song.

Rewrite the Stars will be part of our upcoming Sun, Moon & Stars concert scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, at St. Katharine of Siena Church in Wayne.

And don’t worry. We promise to leave the North Star just where it is!

Fun Facts:

• Rewrite the Stars was written by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul for the soundtrack of the movie The Greatest Showman.
• The duet was sung by Zac Efron and Zendaya.
• The song won the 2018 Teen Choice Award for Collaboration and charted in countries around the world.

We’ll sing such classics as Fly Me to the Moon, Here Comes the Sun, Moondance and Over the Rainbow as well as other popular favorites that include Sunshine on my Shoulders, Moon River and more. We guarantee it will be heavenly.

The concert will be held at St. Katharine of Siena in Wayne. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door and children 12 and under enter free.

In the event of inclement weather, the concert will take place on Saturday, February 11 at 1:30pm at St. Katharine’s. If you are unable to use your ticket on the new date, you’ll receive a credit for a future MLS performance.

Save the date for this special event and if you are ready, you can purchase tickets online now!

We hope to see you there!

This year, we are honored to be sponsoring a food/sundry drive for the Love Works Resource Center in King of Prussia, PA. 

We ask that anyone attending consider bringing a non-perishable food or sundry item that you can drop off at our designated donation table in the church’s lobby before the concert.  For more information about Love Works, please visit: www.Loveworksrc.org.

Thank you all in advance for your heavenly donations … we consider you as stars shining brightly in the universe!

Come hear us sing this Colbie Caillat hit in our next concert (titled Sun, Moon and Stars) and you’ll find out. You might even need your sunglasses because this upbeat number makes us want to turn on a million-watt shine.

It’s all about unexpected love and lightning strikes and stars falling from the sky. It’s kind of dazzling, if we do say so ourselves.

Brighter Than the Sun will be part of our upcoming Sun, Moon & Stars concert scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, at St. Katharine of Siena Church in Wayne.

Fun Facts:

• Brighter than the Sun was released in 2011 on the album All of You
• Caillat co-wrote the song with Ryan Tedder, lead vocalist for OneRepublic
• The song charted on the Billboard Hot 100
• Tambourines and handclaps add to the song’s lively, sunny mood