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About Girl Power Music Fest Come out and wrap up Women’s History Month!
Join Sister Cities Girlchoir, Sister Cities Women’s Boot Camp Choir and our special guests for a musical celebration of girl power. The concert features songs uplifting sisterhood and connection in many genres from classical to world music to rock-n-roll and rhythm and blues. There will be time for audience participation and group singing--families are welcome to attend! Special guests include Anna Crusis Women’s Choir and Girls Rock Philly. FREE; $1 suggested donation Reception will follow. Facebook Event Invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/352684415586864/
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Program Greetings and Welcome Girls Rock Philly Sing-a-long songs facilitated by GRP youth and adults! Starfishing - Demo: Take Space, Make Space When the World is Sick (adaptation) We Are the Ones: Sweet Honey in the Rock Up Over My Head: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Sister Cities Girlchoir, Little Sisters Girlchoir Kendra Balmer, Ruth-Noemí Rosario, and Emily Watkins, Music Team Hala Lala Layya - arr. Audrey Snyder Rhythm Makes You Move
Anna Crusis Women’s Choir Miriam Davidson, Artistic Director Hope - Ysaye Barnwell I Come From Women - Amy Carol Webb, arr. Kathleen McGuire
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Girls Rock Philly Mystic Prize
Sister Cities Girlchoir, Travel Girlchoir Alysia Lee, Anne Dugan, Ruth-Noemí Rosario, & Irina Bakis, Music Team We Shall Be Known - MaMuse Rise and Stand* - Arianne Abela * To sing along, see sheet music in the back of the booklet.
Sister Cities Girlchoir, Women’s Choir Boot Camp Choir Kendra Balmer & Emily Watkins, Music Team Per Crucem - Taizé Wanting Memories - Ysaye Barnwell There is a Queen in You - Donald Lawrence
Reception to Follow, downstairs in the Main Hall
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Anna Crusis WOmen’s Choir ANNA Crusis Women’s Choir (ANNA) For more than 40 years, the singers of Philadelphia’s own Anna Crusis Women’s Choir have acted as agents of social change by empowering and uplifting audiences with inspirational music that transforms. A premier performing arts group founded in 1975, ANNA’s mission has grown from providing a safe space for women from all walks of life to sing together, to supporting and promoting social justice for all. Under the direction of Miriam Davidson, the 80+ strong group sheds light on issues facing immigrants and refugees, young people, women, the LGBTQ+ community, and others. ANNA has performed at numerous venues in Philadelphia and New York City, such as the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, the Annenberg Center, World Café Live, the United Nations, and Carnegie Hall. We are honored to have been invited to participate in the International Festival of Choirs to be held in Santiago de Cuba this coming October/November 2019. ANNA has also sung with artists including Dr. Ysaye Barnwell (Sweet Honey In the Rock), Demi Lovato, Holly Near, Melanie DeMore, Sharon Katz and the Peace Train, and a host of others. For more information visit www.annacrusis.org.
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Miriam Davidson, Artistic Director Miriam Davidson has been Artistic Director of ANNA Crusis Women’s Choir since 2012. She is proud of this thoughtful and passionate choir more than she can say. A multi-instrumentalist/vocalist, singer-songwriter, author, recording artist as well as choral director, she joined synagogue choir rehearsals with mom and dad at age five. She attended Tyler School of Art @ Temple University and Petrie School of Music. As a performer she has toured extensively throughout the US, garnered many awards from both the Folk and LGBTQ communities and has recorded and coproduced eight CDs, several of which have won national awards. She overcame her own performance angst by learning accordion and banjo and playing them both in public. For the past eight summers, she has led a pick-up choir of seventy people at a Unitarian Universalist summer institute, who, after four short rehearsals, sing their hearts out to a standing ovation crowd. She has directed the Festival Choir at the National Women’s Music Festival, is Music Director at the Unitarian Congregation of West Chester, and Makhelat Micha’el Community Choir at Mishkan Shalom. She is married to Kim Singleton (their ceremony was on the rooftop of the Atlantic Sands Hotel in Rehoboth, DE during the Sea Witch Festival) and together, they homestead in the Germantown section of Philadelphia.
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Girls Rock Philly Mystic Prize
Sister Cities Girlchoir, Travel Girlchoir Alysia Lee, Anne Dugan, Ruth-Noemí Rosario, & Irina Bakis, Music Team Lineage - Andrea Ramsey Rise and Stand* - Arianne Abela * To sing along, see sheet music in the back of the booklet.
Sister Cities Girlchoir, Women’s Choir Boot Camp Choir Kendra Balmer & Emily Watkins, Music Team Per Crucem - Taizé Wanting Memories - Ysaye Barnwell There is a Queen in You - Donald Lawrence
Reception to Follow, downstairs in the Main Hall
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GIRLS ROCK PHILLY
Girls Rock Philly is a youth-centered music organization dedicated to building an intergenerational community of girls, women, and trans and gender non-conforming people. Through the practice of fearless expression, artistic experimentation, and collaboration, we build the confidence and leadership skills needed to transform ourselves and our communities. Our staff, volunteers, and participants foster a joyful culture of creativity, critical thinking, and collective care in order to build a more safe and equitable world.
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Mystic Prize
Mystic Prize weaves dreamy beats, wafting melodies and tender lyrics in a dazed and a delightful sound scape. Fronted by GRP camper and Youth Action Council member, Mason McAvoy!
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Sister Cities Girlchoir O 
Sister Cities Girlchoir (SCG) celebrates seven seasons as the girl empowerment choral academy serving communities in Philadelphia, Camden, and Baltimore. SCG builds communities of music makers that empower girls to occupy their unique position in creating a better world. SCG is an El-Sistema-inspired organization that employs the power of collaboration, creativity, and community in service of sisterhood. SCG has performed for audiences at Carnegie Hall, The Smithsonian Institute, The Kimmel Center, Citizens Bank Park, The Union League, National Constitution Center, The Barnes Foundation, World CafĂŠ Live, Philadelphia Museum of Art, African American Museum in Philadelphia, National Museum of American Jewish History, and throughout local communities. The girls cherish their past performances with Opera Philadelphia, Temple University,The Philadelphia Singers, Westminster Choir College,El Sistema New Jersey, The Mann Center, Joanna Pascale, Greater South Jersey Chorus, and many local youth choirs. Founder Alysia Lee was selected from an international pool of applicants as the first classical vocalist accepted as a Sistema Fellow at New England Conservatory. Rooted in access and excellence, SCG programming is provided at little to no cost thanks to a generous cohort of funders and donors. www.sistercitiesgc.org
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Sister Cities Girlchoir Board of directors Bo Banwo University of Minnesota Fran Connolly former Director of Human Resources William Penn School District Stacey Cruise Chief Executive Officer Legacy School Services, Inc. Tom Knoche former Part-Time Lecturer, Urban Studies Rutgers-Camden University
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Sister Cities Girlchoir STAFF Irina Bakis
Accompanist
Kendra Balmer
Founding Teaching Artist
Anne Agresta Dugan
Founding Teaching Artist
Jacqueline Fox
Site Coordinator
Alysia Lee
Founding Artistic Director
Ruth-NoemĂ Rosario
Founding Teaching Artist
Emily Watkins
Accompanist
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Official Event Sponsor
As one of the oldest mentoring nonprofits in the country, UIF celebrated #NationalMentoringMonth by supporting a local mentoring organization-SISTER CITIES GIRLCHOIR! They helped us raise $5,000 and then matched the donation—totaling $10,000 for Girl Power and Song! https://www.uif.org/
Have you seen the original video feature about the programming at Sister Cities Girlchoir? Click here:https://youtu.be/RZmMR0UsqtA
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Watch the check award ceremony here: https://bit.ly/2FMzczt
Thank You… Pastor Shawn Hyska & the congregation of
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