in concert
Join us for PALS' 2011 VOICES CONCERT: The Edge of the World
Saturday, March 26, 2011, 7:30 p.m.
First Church Cambridge
11 Garden Street, Cambridge
Adults $25
Children, Students, and Seniors $15
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This concert celebrates indigenous cultures and calls for their preservation. All four PALS ensembles will perform music and dance from indigenous cultures around the world, from Ghana, to the Torres Straits of Australia and to North, Central, and South America. These musical explorations will be tied together by English-language songs of survival, unity, celebration and strength.
Senior PALS will perform two world premieres:
Prologue: The Quechol's Cry by Alexandra du Bois, based on a libretto written by Alysoun Kegel. This new commission will form part of a larger piece, "Take Off Your Shoes: a Call to Protect the Ethnospere."
Something Stolen From a Dream by Senior PALS member Ella Klahr Bunnell, based on text by by Cheyenne poet Lance Henson.
Read the Boston Globe article about it.
The VOICES concert series strives to partner with a charitable organization related to the theme of the concert. This past January, we lost a dear friend and PALS parent, Larry Bragg. Larry was both a generous supporter of PALS and, as a lawyer, an advocate for Native American tribal communities. In honor of him, and in gratitude for his years of support, we have chosen the Native American Rights Fund to highlight and support in this year’s "The Edge of the World" VOICES concert. Contributions made to PALS in Larry’s honor, either in the donations bowl at the concert or mailed to PALS after the concert (P.O. Box 470411, Brookline, MA 02447) will be equally divided between the PALS scholarship fund and NARF.