Family Academy of Music is presenting an evening of choral music featuring Treble Troubadours, a children’s chorus, and LadySong, a women’s chorus.
The concert, An Evening of Traditional Spirituals, will be held at the First United Methodist Church in Stafford Springs on Friday, April 9, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
A Free Will offering will be taken to support the Jeff Braun Children’s Home Foundation.
Treble Troubadours is a group of nine young, auditioned boys and girls who join together weekly for a class to help them develop their vocal and musical skills while learning aspects of music history and theory. The chorus, under the direction of Susan B. Leavitt, was founded in 1997 and has helped nurture the love of fine music for many young singers. The goal of Family Academy of Music is to encourage families and young children to make music an integral part of their lives.
LadySong was founded by Mrs. Leavitt in 2000 as an outgrowth of the Stafford Community Chorus begun in 1970. The chorus, now under the sponsorship of Family Academy of Music is a volunteer chorus of women who love to sing major choral literature in quality performances. This spring the opportunity to sing some of the great spirituals of our musical heritage has been an exciting journey.
The concert on April 9th will also feature a presentation by Mark and Amy Coats. They are the directors of the Children’s Home in El Progreso, Honduras. This will allow many people in the Stafford Area who have been supporting this project for the past six years to hear about the progress and the future of the Children’s Home, which was first started because of the dream of a young man, Jeff Braun, from Stafford who wanted to give back to the land of his birth. For more information on the Jeff Braun Foundation please visit www.jeffsdream.com.
Concert information: Susan Leavitt, 860.487.3765, SusanLeavitt@sbcglobal.net
