Newark Sing In!Newark Sing In! is open to men and women 18+ of all cultural backgrounds and various performance levels. Classical, R&B, Jazz and popular music styles will be discussed and performed. Professional singers from Five Women Performance Ensemble will be on hand to demonstrate and guide participants in group singing, harmonizing and solo performance. Light refreshments and piano accompaniment included. FREE
We Lift Up Their Voices!
5 Women Salute 11 Women Singers
A Women’s History Month Celebration
June 2027 (Tentative)
We Lift Up Their Voices! is a tribute in verse and song to Newark’s renowned female singers: Tisha Campbell, Faith Evans, Connie Frances, Gloria Gaynor, Cissy and Whitney Houston, Queen Latifah, Melba Moore, Sarah Vaughan; and lesser known Newark singers Linda Jones and Salome Bey who went on to become very famous in Toronto..
The program is a multi-media presentation combining music, narration and a slide presentation featuring historic and contemporary photographs of the featured artists with accompanying narration highlighting their lives and careers.
I Dream A World: Song & Verse to Inspire a Nation
Featuring Five Women
March 2027 (Tentative)
Five Women recently developed a project called I Dream A World (IDAW), the title taken from the Langston Hughes poem of the same name. Developed in 2026 to acknowledge the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the United States of America’s Semiquincentennia. The relevance of this program will continue beyond the anniversary year.
IDAW, typical of Five Women’s creative and historically inspired projects, touches on important moments and markers in African American history from the 19th, 20th & 21st centuries — from the slave trade and the Emancipation Proclamation, through Reconstruction, the Jim Crow Era, the Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter to the 2024 Presidential election. It includes thought-provoking text and powerful and moving music and songs from artists of note. This fusion of music, narration, film footage and historic photos, examines the trials, tribulations and triumphs of African Americans in America.
CELESTE A. BATEMAN’S VIRTUAL BIRTHDAY FUNDRAISER
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