The St. Cloud State University Women’s Choir performs at the 2016 Her Story, Her Song concert.
The concert gives performers and audience members an opportunity to explore life from the feminine perspective.
Her Story, Her Song is partnering this year with the African Women’s Alliance (AWA), a group of African immigrant and refugee women in Central Minnesota.
AWA is committed to creating a safe, welcoming community where African women feel at home and have opportunities they need to thrive and succeed.
Music and readings during the performance will reflect the collaboration.
Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, $5 students and free with a St. Cloud State ID.
In addition to performances by the Women’s Choir and Cantabile Girls’ Choir, faculty performers include:
- Marion Judish, violin
- Melissa Krause, flute
- Shannon Sadler, piano
- Catherine Verrilli, soprano
- Emeriti Marcelyn Smale, reader
The Cantabile Girls’ Choir, led by Conductor Nancy Parker, is made up of middle-school age girls and is part of the music department’s Preparatory Program. Conductor Mary Jo Bot leads the Women’s Choir.
In addition to partnering with AWA on Her Story, Her Song, choir members volunteered throughout the semester to help support the group’s mission. In March the students held a fabric drive to collect donations of fabric that the African Women’s Alliance uses in a sewing project to educate immigrant women with skills they can use to help their families and find employment.
After the fabric drive, Women’s Choir members facilitated a shopping day where African women in the sewing program were able to “shop” the fabric collected by the choir.
Cantabile Girls’ Choir members held a drive to collect items for AWA’s Welcome Baby Project.
Both choirs also worked with immigrant women to learn lullabies from Somalia, South Sudan and Kenya.
