Our 2025-26 season marks the third full season of the Seasons of Joy Concert series. We have twelve exciting events planned with a wide variety of instrumentation and genre. While we do have a few returning artists this season, we also have new friends coming to grace our stage and share their music. As always, we have our annual Christmas concert as a part of this series. This year will be our fifth Christmas concert and you will not want to miss it!
To date there have been 26 concerts in the series and we have featured local "in-house" musicians at Joy Lutheran, local groups Uniqulele and the Amazzing Steel Drum Ensemble, the Gainesville Brass Quintet, and other major artists like Thomas Keesecker and Eirinn Abu. Since the series began over 3,300 attendees have come to our concerts.
Love offering collections from the annual Christmas concert have been allocated to local or regional charitable organizations like Wear Gloves or the Good Spirit Foundation. Love offerings and donations from all the other concerts initially went to funding the JOY handbell choir expansion project. The expansion project was completed during the 2023-24 season and collections are now used to cover the costs of the series itself - artist fees, supplies, reception costs, and so forth.
All concerts are free and open to the public.
A reception is held after the concert so you can meet the artists.
Seasons of Joy Concert Series website
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