Church of Great Rain Holiday Show

Church of Great Rain will celebrate the spirit of the season with a Holiday Show on December 11 at 4PM at Open Space for Arts and Community.

The Holiday Show will feature the Church House Band, twisted news and irreverent views by the Holy Roller Radio Players, and a lively impromptu sermon by the preacher. Over sixty uniquely talented actors, musicians, writers, and technical crew contribute to these wonderful collaborations. Joining the cast for this performance will be Island actor and singer Louis Mangione.

Special musical guests will be Manooghi Hi, an East meets West collaboration between rock-and-roll instrumentation and soaring vocal gymnastics that are heavily rooted in Indian tradition and intense mysticism. There is a sense of liberation and transcendence in their music that directly correlates to the artful fusion of eastern/western traditions that rests at the core of the band.

Seattle PI music critic Gene Stout describes Mehnaz as "mesmerizing and otherworldly", while Techgnosis.com guru Erik Davis writes "Manooghi Hi has the rare sense of having found a common language that is capable of fusing and mixing very different communities of listeners while actually allowing the band to say something new and powerful, like the globe is spinning so fast that east and west really don’t mean much anymore and everybody is coming to party."

Manooghi Hi has performed at the Triple Door, Bumbershoot, South By Southwest, Sundance Film Festival, Oregon Country Fair and Oregon’s World Music Festival. The group has been featured on KING 5′s Evening Magazine, Q13′s Morning Show and Seattle Channel’s Art Zone.

Church of Great Rain Holiday Show tickets are $10 at Vashon Bookshop and
www.brownpapertickets.com. Golden Circle Passes for four including a reserved table in front are $60 at brownpapertickets.com and at the door.

For special holiday gifts, surprise your friends and family with Church of Great Rain show tickets. Advance tickets are now available for the 2012 shows at Brown Paper Tickets. Purchase tickets in their name to add them to the Will Call list. One size fits all gift-certificates for Church of Great Rain and Fupps Beer t-shirts and aprons are also available.

Discover more about Church of Great Rain, holiday gift ideas, and Manooghi Hi at www.churchofgreatrain.com.