2012/02/05 – Multi-Cultural Salute to Black History Month: An Afternoon of World Premieres

Concert: Multi-Cultural Salute to Black History Month: An Afternoon of World Premieres – Jazz, Concert and Jazz-Influenced Concert Musics (Series Event #1), Music by Eight LiCA members to be performed. (Works by Fourteen LICA member/composers are represented in this 4 event series). This concert will feature performances by vocalists Tara Nova, Natalya Simone and TOMOKO, pianists Paul Hefner, Rob Schwimmer and Jay Anthony Gach, saxophonist/flutist/vocalist Cecilia Tenconi, bassist Wilbur Bascomb, drummer Victor Jones, and the South Nassau Unitarian Universalist Congregation African Drum Ensemble “The DrUUmatics.” Immediately following the concert the SNUUC Art Committee will open a themed exhibit featuring Young Black Artists, coinciding with a meet the musicians and artists reception. Tickets: $15,seniors and LICA members, $10,and high school students $5. (Advance sale at SNUUC. Tickets at the door on event day cash only, please). For more information call 516-623-1204 or 516-775-4307. For more information about this 4 event series and a link to youtube, please visit Park Avenue Presenters on facebook at “pap concerts”.
When: Sunday, Feb. 5th. Concert at 1PM, Reception and Art Exhibit from 3-4PM
Where: South Nassau Unitarian Universalist Congregation (SNUUC), 228 South Ocean Ave., Freeport, NY 11520
Info: Composers: LICA members Paul Hefner (Co-Mgr.), Jay Anthony Gach (Co-Mgr.), Rob Schwimmer, Cecilia Tenconi, Hale Smith, Herbert Rothgarber, Laurence Dresner, Tara Nova and Henry Martin. Also, Negro Spirituals and an excerpt from Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess.”