CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
Neighborhood Concert: Community Sing with Fisk Jubilee Singers

Schomburg Center, The
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 at 3:00 PM

Fisk Jubilee Singers
Paul T. Kwami, Musical Director
Vy Higginsen, Host

Experience this special opportunity to learn songs and exchange stories with the Fisk Jubilee Singers. (No singing experience necessary!) This event is hosted by Vy Higginsen—co-writer, producer, and director of "Mama, I Want to Sing!"


“The singers were performing to a tough crowd, as restive as any high school assembly. But by the end of the concert the audience was clapping along, and it followed the driving optimism of ‘Ride the Chariot’ with a standing ovation. For the Fisk Jubilee Singers, it was one more successful mission.”—New York Times on the Fisk Jubilee Singers’ Apollo Theater performance in 2000


The original Jubilee Singers introduced “slave songs” to the world in 1871 and were instrumental in preserving this American musical tradition known today as Negro Spirituals. They broke racial barriers in the US and abroad in the late 19th century, and entertained kings and queens in Europe. Today the Fisk Jubilee Singers—young students of Fisk University—continue their legacy by singing and traveling extensively, sharing this distinct American art form and experience with audiences worldwide.

The Carnegie Hall Community Partnership Program is supported by Ameriprise Financial.

Media Sponsor: Time Warner Cable

Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concerts are supported, in part, by The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation.

This program is made possible, in part, by the Ronald O. Perelman Music Endowment Fund.
Additional funding has been provided by Howard University.