CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
Neighborhood Concert: Community Sing with Gospel for Teens

Apollo Theater
Friday, March 13th, 2009 at 6:30 PM

Gospel for Teens
Vy Higginsen, Host

Bring your families, friends and most importantly your voice. Come celebrate the music in you at Carnegie Hall's Community Sings!

This interactive event is your opportunity to sing, exchange stories, and share food together with the exhilarating Gospel for Teens, hosted by Harlem icon, Vy Higginsen. (No singing experience necessary!)

Based in Harlem, the Gospel for Teens choir was born out of Vy Higginsen's Mama Foundation for the Arts—dedicated to teaching aspiring teenagers about the importance of gospel music as an art form. Aged 13-19, these teens stand as a shining example of musical possibility, bringing the power of traditional and contemporary gospel to audiences all around New York through performances at the Apollo Theater, the American Museum of Natural History, and St. Paul Community Baptist Church.

"We mean to lift up the youth through history and gospel music!" —Vy Higginsen, Mama Foundation for the Arts CEO and Executive Director

Media Sponsor: Time Warner Cable

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

Major funding for Honor! A Celebration of the African American Cultural Legacy has been provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Alice Tully Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation's New York City Cultural Innovation Fund, Howard University, and the A. L. and Jennie L. Luria Foundation.

The opening performance of Honor! is sponsored by Bank of America.

Honor! is made possible, in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.