Friends in Harmony: Celebrating Diversity Concert A Rousing Success

OAKTON, Va. - June 21, 2016 - PRLog -- Mosaic Harmony presented their first "Friends in Harmony: Celebrating Diversity" Concert at 4:00pm, on Sunday June 19, 2016, in the auditorium at James Madison High School in Vienna, Virginia. The concert, which featured Mosaic Harmony, and three other Northern Virginia community choruses - the Olam Tikvah Chorale, KetzalChorus, and the Sakura Choir. David K. North, Director of Mosaic Harmony, worked with all of the choirs to learn two of the songs on the CD released at the concert and given to attendees as a thank you for attending.  Sandra Chisholm, Program Manager for the Fairfax County Interfaith Coordination Office and Imam Mohammed Magid, the Vice-Chair of Fairfax County's Clergy and Leadership Council, greeted the audience.

The concert and accompanying CD are the result of a generous 2015 Project Grant to Mosaic Harmony from the Arts Council of Fairfax County intended to illustrate the broad diversity of Fairfax County's population. This grant funding enabled Mosaic Harmony to collaborate with three Northern Virginia based diverse choirs, singing together in four different languages.  Along with Mosaic Harmony's spiritual songs in the gospel tradition, the partner choirs sang in Hebrew, Spanish, and Japanese. The CD features two songs performed by each choir and two songs that the four groups sang together for the first time.  Each group went into the House of Jam recording studios in Beltsville MD earlier this year and recorded separately.  The two songs sung by the entire group of performers, North who also served as the executive producer for the CD and the concert penned My Prayer and Help Me Make Peace. An added bonus for the audience was alto saxophone player Seth Kibel, who is a member of the Baltimore based jazz band Hot Club of Baltimore, accompanied North and the choir on My Prayer and Help Me Make Peace.

"After hosting our first World Interfaith Harmony Week concert on February 1, it really took the excitement of the diversity project and concert to a new level. We are so appreciative of the wonderful opportunity provided by the Arts Council of Fairfax County to assist us in furthering our mission to unify the world one song at a time,"  noted Mary Lou McCarthy, Mosaic Harmony board President. The choir recently celebrated their 22nd anniversary spring concert and fundraiser on April 24 held at UUCF in Oakton.  The choir begins their 23rd season on September 6 at 7:30pm and have already booked concerts for the balance of 2016 and early 2017.  The Friends in Harmony CD is available on their website as well as their three previous CDs.  Plans are underway to begin their next CD project and for the 2017 World Interfaith Harmony Week concert.

For more information on booking the choir for a performance or on becoming a performing or supporting member, visit www.mosaicharmony.org.