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Music Abounds from Freemason Hall
In January of this year the Castlewood Chamber Singers became the
second performing arts group to call Freemason Hall home base.
Freemason Hall is the first floor 800 seat auditorium located on the
first floor of the Indiana Grand Lodge Building on the corner of North
and Illinois Street in downtown Indianapolis. The magnificent
Grand Lodge Building is home to several Blue Lodges and also is the
home office of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Indiana and the Indiana
Masonic Foundation.
For a period of over thirty years Freemason Hall sat idle and
unused. That changed in early 2004 when the Indianapolis Arts
Chorale chose the facility as their home and began a rather massive
clean up and restoration process. The Chorale has given several
concerts in the auditorium, but the restoration process is only in the
beginning stages. It took a general cleaning, some repainting and
a huge number of new light bulbs to make the Hall ready—and, further
projects will focus on new stage curtains, updated stage lighting, and
a grand piano.
The Castlewood Chamber Singers were formed in 1984 as an outgrowth of
members of a Greenwood church choir who organized a madrigal dinner
performance. Two years later the group of eight singers had moved
from
the church and established their own not for profit corporation and in
the ensuing 18 years they have used a number of facilities for
rehearsal but basically had to seek out performance venues.
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