ROC Black Voices

Name: ROC Black Voices
Start: 2025-02-15T17:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-15T18:45:00-05:00
Location: 320 St Marks Pl, Staten Island, NY 10301-2409, United States

Schedule

Sat Feb 15 2025 at 05:30 pm to 06:45 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

320 St Marks Pl, Staten Island, NY 10301-2409, United States | Staten Island, NY

Advance sales tks $15 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roc-black-voices-in-honor-of-black-history-month-tickets-1215750455339?aff=oddtdtcreator $20 @ the door
This event is free for students and children.
Gathering Music by Jeannine Otis, pianist,**Gathering Music by Jeannine Otis, Pianist, and Bim Strasberg, Bassist**
**Welcome**
Alan Aurelia / Rev. Correa
**Lift Every Voice and Sing**
Performed by everyone
(Piano and bass accompaniment)
**Amazing Grace**
Nubia Braithwaite
(Music by Jeannine Otis and Saul Rubin from her recording for Church Publishing, *Spirit Songs*)
**Co-hosts**
Dorcas Meyers and Jeannine Otis
**Brighton Heights Junior Orchestra**
- *All Night, All Day* / *Swing Low Sweet Chariot* (African-American Spiritual)
- *Sansa Kroma* (Ghanaian Folksong)
**Poet Maya**
*We Are a Work in Progress*
**Dorian Lake**
*Motherless Chile* (A cappella)
**Brighton Heights Youth Orchestra**
- *Soon I Will Be Done* (African-American Spiritual arranged by Carrie Lane Gruselle)
- *Deep River* (African-American Spiritual arranged by Carrie Lane Gruselle)
**Poet Maya**
*Community Unity: Love Wins*
*Is This Love* (Bob Marley, arranged by Marian Wilson)
**Nubia Braithwaite**
*Psalm 23*
**African Suite: V. Akinla: Allegro non Troppo**
Fela Sowande
*Isu Tauyo Pano* (Zimbabwean Folk Song)
**Dorian Lake**
*Make Them Hear You*
(From the musical *Ragtime*)
Accompanied by Jeannine Otis and Bim Strasberg
**This Little Light of Mine**
(African-American Spiritual arranged by Kenneth Abeling)
**Closing Song**
*We Shall Overcome* (Performed by everyone) and Bim Strasberg, Bassist
Welcome Alan Aurelia/ Rev Correa
Lift Every Voice and Sing
With everyone.
[ piano and bass added]
AMAZING GRACE Nubia Braithwaite
[ Music by Jeannine Otis/ Saul Rubin from her recording for Church Publishing SPIRIT SONGS ]
Co-hosts Dorcas Meyers and Jeannine Otis
Brighton Heights Junior Orchestra
All Night, All Day/Swing Low Sweet Chariot African-American Spiritual
Sansa Kroma Ghanaian Folksong
POET MAYA We are a work in progress
Dorian Lake Motherless Chile. [ acapella]

Brighton Heights Youth Orchestra
Soon I Will Be Done African-American Spiritual arranged by Carrie Lane Gruselle
Deep River African - American Spiritual arranged by Carrie Lane Gruselle
Poet Maya Community Unity LOVE WINS
Is This Love Bob Marley arranged by Marian Wilson
Nubia Braithwaite. PSALM 23

African Suite: V. Akinla: Allegro non-Troppo Fela Sowande
Isu Tauyo Pano Zimbabwean Folk Song

Dorian Lake. Make Them Hear You
from the Musical Ragtime
Accompanied by Jeannine Otis and Bim Strasberg
This Little Light Of Mine is - an American Spiritual arranged by Kenneth Abeling
Closing song. WE SHALL OVERCOME with everyone.
This event is possible because of public funding from the New York State Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, and our members.