The CAMROSE BOOSTER, November 5, 2019 – Page 17
Students part of Melisizwe choir
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By Murray Green
The Melisizwe Brothers will be performing at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium on Nov. 11 at 7:30 p.m. The boys will be having a 100-member choir singing background on three songs and 11 of those singers are from Camrose. “This concert is the biggest concert we have ever performed,” said Seth, the middle of the three brothers from Leduc. “When we have a concert, we have a meaning behind it. It will honour Remembrance Day, but none of the songs will be about Remembrance Day. We will remember the sacrifices that the veterans made,” shared Marc, the oldest. “The concert on Nov. 11 is about respecting the veterans. The songs won’t be about them, but for them,” added Zacary, the youngest. The Melisizwe Brothers, who have played at Jaywalkers’ Jamboree and the Lougheed Centre, will feature a 12-piece band, the 100-member choir and several performers and dancers on stage. This concert not only shows appreciation of remembrance to veterans, but is also the official welcoming of the brothers to the City of Edmonton and the launch of their Gold Mind Initiative (inspiring the world through music). Local members of the choir have been learning the three songs with help from Tom Spila and Bob Bailey and organized by Val Bailey. “We asked for some Camrose singers because this lovely city has supported us in our concert here. We had a choir at the concert and it went well, so we were thinking about Camrose when we were putting this large choir together,” offered Seth. École Charlie Killam School students Callie McFarlane, Genevieve Simonet, Keandra Leclercq, Faith MacIntyre, Isabella Wolsey, Avery Batke, Andrew Guenther, Noah Van Hyft and Meaghan Smith are joined by university students David Salmon and Chantel Schultz. “We are having a 100-piece choir because this is the biggest event we are having this year. Ever since we came back from our trip to LA (Los Angeles, to be filmed for Nickelodeon’s America’s Most Musical
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Norsemen Inn Buffet Schedule: Murray Green, Camrose Booster Members of the local choir practice three songs for the Melisizwe brothers concert in Edmonton on Remembrance Day.
Family that aired on Nov. 1), we realized that we needed to play in Edmonton and do something big. We want this concert to mean something, so that’s why the 100-piece choir,” said Marc.
The show will open with the choir and boys singing “Hallelujah” and then in the second half near the end, they will be singing “Circle of Life” and “You Raise Me Up.”
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