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Makhelat Hamercaz Choir – Jan. 22 at 3 p.m.- Daphne Powell Memorial Concert Series
The Friends Daphne Powell Memorial Concert Series will kick-off Sunday, Jan. 22 at 3 p.m. at the South Brunswick Public Library with the Makhelat Hamercaz Choir. Free Admission.
The Daphne Powell Memorial Concert Series, hosted by the Friends of the Library will kick-off on Sunday, Jan. 22 at 3 p.m. at the South Brunswick Public Library with the Makhelat Hamercaz Choir, Jewish Choir of Central New Jersey. Free Admission.
Created in 2003, the Choir is the brainchild of two local cantors, Anna West Ott of Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple in New Brunswick and Sheldon Levin of Congregation Neve Shalom in Metuchen. Under their direction, the group has grown to more than 50 singers from Middlesex, Monmouth, Mercer, and Somerset Counties. Dedicated to nurturing appreciation of Jewish music, Makhelat HaMercaz continues to broaden its musical repertoire to include selections from the genres of religious, secular, classical, jazz, pop and folk sung in Hebrew, Yiddish, English, and Ladino.
The Library is pleased to announce the concert series thanks to a grant awarded by the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission for $2,100, in conjunction with some matching funds from the Karma Foundation and the Friends of SBPL. The monies will support an expanded Daphne Powell concert series for nine concerts during 2012.
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Mark your calendar! In February the Series will present soprano Carlensha Bethea Grady on Feb. 26. Ms. Grady will perform African-American Spirituals in honor of African-American History Month. An accomplished singer of classical, jazz, and operatic music, Ms. Grady has performed in Carnegie Hall and the State Theater and performs regularly throughout New Jersey.
Locally, she is the music teacher at Metuchen Christian Academy and soprano section leader at Nassau Presbyterian Church of Princeton.
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Other performances scheduled for 2012 concert series include:
March 25 - McDermontt's Handy, Traditional Irish Music; April 29 - Jersey Follettes, an all-female vocal group; May 27 - Spook Handy: America’s Story through Folk Songs; Sept. 30 - Ken Lelen, a vintage guitarist performing songs from Frank Sinatra to Duke Ellington to Peggy Lee; Oct. 21 - Maggie Worsdale’s Caberet Show; and Nov. 18 - City Winds Trio, classical music.
