ValRENtine's Weekend Fundraiser!

Dearest RenFriends, RenFans, and RenFamily,

You're not going to believe this, but RenMen is already looking ahead to 2024-25, our TENTH Anniversary Season! RENTEN is months away but we are already in preparation for a year's worth of celebrations. Thanks to all of you, we have been blessed to provide New England (and beyond!) with our own unique brand of vocal chamber music for low voices over the past ten years. But this is only the beginning!

On the horizon: the completion of our third full-length album, RenMentality, a program we debuted in 2017, performed in multiple states, and recorded with your help in March of 2022. We are in the final stage of audio production with a fully-loaded, Grammy-award winning team of producers and engineers. In order to assure its release in 2024 we need your help to push us over the finish line this weekend.

Can you help us this weekend in our $5,000 ValRENtine's Weekend fundraiser? A contribution of any amount would be incredibly generous. We are also eager and open to underwriters for members of our production team.

ABOUT RENMENTALITY

Renaissance Men, New England's premiere male vocal chamber ensemble, returns with our newest album, RenMentality, which features a diverse array of music from composers with lived experience of mental illness throughout history: fresh interpretations of traditional choral works by Schumann, Beethoven, Monteverdi, Mussorgsky, and Tchaikovsky, breathtaking renditions of rarely heard works by Charles Ives and Brian Wilson, and tape-cassette recorded covers of songs featured on Nirvana's iconic “MTV: Unplugged." The album's centerpiece is the world-premiere recording of Jay Mobley's When I Look Back: Theme and Variations, a muti-movement, cross-genre work for eight individual male voices, using texts derived from live interviews in coordination with National Alliance on Mental Illness Massachusetts. RenMentality de-stigmatizes and humanizes the realities of mental health challenges and offers comfort to those whom relate, as well as entertains with ethereal, expressive vocal art. RenMentality has been performed live in concert series, college workshops, and in-patient mental health facilities across New England.

Thank you all for being such devoted, supportive, and loving members of team RenMen and for your continued support of our ever-expansive endeavors. Love always. <3

ABOUT RENAISSANCE MEN

Renaissance Men is a professional vocal ensemble based in Boston, performing in venues and concert halls in New England and across the United States. Like the multi-talented individuals of the Renaissance, our programs feature a wide variety of musical styles and instrumentation with a focus on lower voices.

Renaissance Men Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (TIN: 82-1719415) that believes in advancing the art of chamber music through world-class performance, education, and commissions. We count on donors to support our programming. Give today to support quality music programming in New England and throughout the United States.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have contributed to Renaissance Men in the past year:

*Denotes Top Supporters

Alyssa Albertelli

Rosalyn Año

Michelle and Doug Arbeely

Lisa Barsamian Green

Marcella Behman

Peter Bell

Thomas Best

Jennifer Bowman

Kathleen Bragdon

Lisbeth Burns

Joseph Campanelli

Maria Chase

Catherine and John Daniel

Matthew DeSutter and Donna Paglia

Bill Dotterweich

Lindsey and Joe Duggan

Laura Fowler

Gina Francis

Beth Healy

Wilson and Kate Hoyle

Kirsten Johnson

Marina Kalb

Jane Kelley

Patricia Krol

*Anita Kupris

*Cathy and Lance LaFave

Carolyn Lemone

*Rebecca Clark Lightcap

Gregory Manousos

*Anne and Joe Marvan

Lynne McCarthy

Terry McEnany

*Margaret and Brian McNeill

*Michael and Ginger Milbury

Ronald Mis

John and Christine Mizzi

Tami Moffitt

Jay and Laurel Mullen

*Ed and Jennifer Murphy

*John and Karla Pastore

Jon and Callie Posnik

Maureen Prapestis

Jill Purpura

Patty Quigley

*Robert and Deborah Reardon

*Lucille Rossignol

Michael Scanlon

*Chuck Schwager

*Randy and Janet Seidl

Susan Simon

*Chris Sole

*Mary Sullivan

*Dorrie Taylor

Susan Wagner

Kristen Whitaker

Laura Wilson

Julie and Eric Woodard

ValRENtine's Weekend Fundraiser!

By Renaissance Men, Inc.

ValRENtine's Weekend Fundraiser!

"RenMentality" full-length album is in the final stages and we need your help!

Team Members