Count Basie Center Gospel Choir: A Concert for World Peace with a Special Tribute to Harry Belafonte

Name: Count Basie Center Gospel Choir: A Concert for World Peace with a Special Tribute to Harry Belafonte
Start: 2025-04-28T18:30:00-04:00
Location: The Vogel

Schedule

Mon, 28 Apr, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

The Vogel | Red Bank, NJ

DOORS 5:30PM • SHOWTIME 6:30PM
The Vogel • Basie Center Campus • 99 Monmouth Street, Red Bank
Led by Director Gwen Moten and Music Director Dr. B. Dexter Allgood, the Count Basie Center Gospel Choir will present songs and stories of inspiration. With the goal of spreading awareness of world issues, the choir will be joined by guests of the community to spread messages, stories, and songs that inspire peace, healing, and unity.
On this evening, the choir will pay tribute to Harry Belafonte by featuring his music, along with his music director Richard Cummings and the Belafonte Singers.
The Count Basie Center Gospel Choir is headed by Music Director Gwen Moten and assistant music director Dr. B Dexter Allgood, designed as a community initiative open to interested performers in New Jersey and surrounding areas. Moten, whose resume includes international presentations and appointments in Newark, the United Nations, the White House and elsewhere, believes the Basie Center Gospel Choir will be an engaging cultural and artistic offering, designed to develop a holistic and cultural ecology throughout the Basie Center community and beyond.