Spirit of Racine Music Makers Inc.

01/15/2026

Learn more about us and come sing and play with us !

Racine Rotary is hosting the first Service Above Self Expo Jan. 31 to better connect organizations with volunteers who want to help them.

12/20/2025

We know, it’s like waiting for Santa, but we are now just one day away from “Spirit of the Season - A Concert of Hope and Peace!”

12/16/2025

Do you have this on your calendar for Sunday?

12/03/2025

We are preparing the gift of music for you! Don't miss our Spirit of the Season: Concert of Hope & Peace at 3 p.m., Sunday, December 21 at First Presbyterian Church, 716 College Avenue!

11/18/2025

06/02/2025

We are so proud to be a part of this magnificent concert series. Enjoy the music every Thursday afternoon, and catch us performing on June 19!

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Spring Samplersaturday, May 17 At 7 P.M. - Featured Performers: Nolan Boerner & Gunnar Conine – Cellos “Caritas” – Greg & Kathy Berg, Kate Potter Barrow

05/30/2025

We are so happy to be performing Songs for the Spirit Sunday. Come join us!

05/07/2025

Songs for the Spirit!

3 p.m., Sunday, June 1 at Sacred Heart Church, 2201 Northwestern Ave.

Spirit of Racine Music Makers will perform a variety of inspiring music to lift your spirit with songs about courage, passion, dreams and peace.

The community musical group is comprised of about 50 vocalists, hand bell ringers and instrumentalists whose mission is to bring love, peace and social justice to the world through the beauty and power of music. Artistic Director Margaret Stetka Girdzius will lead the group. Pianist Marilyn Justus will be the Accompanist.

This benefit concert is free and open to the public. But it does have a purpose. Aside from sharing inspiring secular and religious music, this concert is dedicated to Spirit of Racine Music Maker’s first Artistic Director and Co-founder, George F. Baumgardt, who passed away in 2024. Spirit created an endowed music scholarship in his memory at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, his alma mater. A free-will offering will be collected during the concert and 100% of proceeds will benefit the scholarship fund.

A benevolent donor has made a matching gift to the George F. Baumgardt Memorial Music Scholarship. For every dollar donated to the fund between now and July 1, 2025, the donor will match up to $2,500. Contributions can also be made directly to the fund by specifying your gift to the George F. Baumgardt Memorial Music Scholarship and making the contribution online at the link below or mailing a check with a note in the memo to UW-Parkside Foundation, 900 Wood Rd., PO Box 2000, Kenosha WI 53141.

https://www.uwp.edu/giving/baumgardt.cfm

02/21/2025

Would you like to make beautiful music in an effort to bring more peace into the world?
You have a wonderful opportunity!
Spirit of Racine Music Makers will begin rehearsing for its Spring Concert.
If you love to sing and want to join the vocal choir, rehearsals are at 6:30 pm. Wednesdays.
If you know how to ring handbells or chimes, or would like to learn, rehearsals are from 5 to 6 p.m. on Wednesdays.
If you are an instrumentalist and would like to perform with the group, we can make that happen.
Send an email to: [email protected]. Provide your name, interest and a phone number, and we will welcome you into this group.
Spirit of Racine Music Makers is a nonprofit membership organization. Members contribute a $40 annual fee to support our mission. We are a community group looking to use the power and beauty of music to bring peace, love and social justice to the world.
Consider joining us!

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12/04/2024

Find us at the 30-minute mark in yesterday's Morning Show with Greg Berg!

KSO Christmas Concert