Is First & Franklin accessible?

Our sanctuary is wheelchair/walker accessible. We have limited seating for wheelchairs. Please email us at information@firstfranklin.org if you plan to bring a wheelchair to the concert so that we may reserve a seat for the wheelchair and a companion. We also have an ADA bathroom.

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Friday, April 25

Chanticleer

Name: Chanticleer
Start: 2025-04-25T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-25T21:00:00-04:00
Location: First & Franklin Presbyterian Church (USA)

GRAMMY Award-winning Chanticleer returns to the glorious sanctuary of First & Franklin to help us celebrate our 15th anniversary season.

By The Spire Series at First & Franklin

Date and time

Friday, April 25 · 7:30 - 9pm EDT. Doors at 7pm

Location

First & Franklin Presbyterian Church (USA)

210 West Madison Street Baltimore, MD 21201

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 10 days before event

About this event

Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes

Chanticleer returns to First & Franklin to help us celebrate our 15th anniversary season. Join us for a jubilant celebration of choral singing: from Renaissance masterworks to Romantic part-songs, contemporary commissions, vocal jazz, and everything in between. Chanticleer is at home in every genre and revels in sharing the best of their art form wherever they go. Repertoire includes Renaissance motets by William Byrd and Heinrich Isaac, classic arrangements of familiar folk songs like “Shenandoah” and “Calling my children home,” settings of the jazz standards “Blue Skies” and “Lost in the Stars,” as well as contemporary arrangements of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” and Queen’s “Somebody to Love.”

TICKETS

Tickets are required for both the concert and the post-concert champagne reception. You can purchase the reception tickets at the same time as the concert, just scroll to the bottom of the seating sections when adding tickets to your cart.

If you are interested in getting discounted concert tickets or would like to support The Spire Series at First & Franklin, please visit www.firstfranklin.org/spireseries.

THE SPIRE SERIES

If you'd like to join the Spire Series email list, please click here. You can also find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/SpireSeries.

PARKING

First & Franklin Presbyterian Church is located at 210 W Madison Streetin Baltimore, on the corner of Park Avenue and Madison Street in the Mt. Vernon neighborhood.

Ample street parking, both free and metered, is available in historic Mt. Vernon. After 6:00 p.m. on weekdays, and all day on Sundays, many meters do not require payment and most residential restrictions are lifted. Please be sure to consult signage carefully.

However, we strongly encourage our patrons to avoid the stress of searching for street parking, and to make a parking plan before arriving into our residential neighborhood. The following websites and associated mobile apps may be very useful:

The closest paid parking lot is near First & Franklin, is at 821 N.Howard.

Public lots within a two-block radius of the church include:

821 N. Howard
316 W. Madison (UMMC Midtown Campus Parking Garage)
124 W. Read Street

Organized by

The Spire Series at First & Franklin

The Spire Series at First & Franklin is committed to building community through the presentation of extraordinary performance artists in one of Baltimore's most beautiful sacred spaces. The series features local, national, and international talent and includes both free and ticketed concerts. In addition to presenting concerts, The Spire Series fosters educational opportunities in our community, including at the Baltimore School for the Arts and the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University.

Most of our concerts are free and open to the public, and we are able to maintain this access for our community through the generous support of donors. For more information about becoming a donor or for the full Spire Series season, please visit www.firstfranklin.org/spireseries.