POAC presents Women of the World in concert
Bonner County Daily Bee | UPDATED 9 years, 5 months AGO
(Courtesy photo) POAC is delighted to bring the Women of the World to perform a capella at the Panida Theater at 7:30 p.m. Friday. These women who hail from Japan, Italy, India and the U.S./Haiti will delight you with their extraordinary music that shares the culture and diversity of their countries. For ticket information, go online to artinsandpoint.org.
Between them they speak nine languages; together they sing the praises of cultural and racial diversity in 31 languages and counting. Lighting up the stage at the Panida Theater on Friday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m. Women of the World will delight you with their a cappella storytelling. This performance is brought to you by Pend Oreille Arts Council thanks to Taylor and Sons Chevrolet.
“Women of the World was formed to bring women musicians from across the globe onto a common platform to collaborate and create through the sharing of music to explore and celebrate the differences in ideologies and cultural tenets that exist in the daily lives of women all over the world,” said one of the performers, Giorgia Renosta in an email.
Ayumi Ueda, a Berklee College of Music alumna from Japan had a vision to create not only a multicultural ensemble, but one that was committed to advocating peace in daily life. She joined forces with vocalists Renosta from Italy, Annette Philip from India, Deborah Pierre from the U.S. and Haiti and Patrick Simard on percussions to achieve her vision.
“Each of the musicians has a strong artistic identity shaped by the culture in which they grew up,” she wrote, “and each finds endless excitement in learning and exploring the many cultures of the world. The unique music which stems forth from this cross-pollination of genres, rhythms and global sounds is thus borderless and spirited, carrying the undeniable message of unity.”
Renosta describes the group as a microcosm of the world that has performed at such varied venues as Carnegie Hall, Blue Note Jazz Club, Boston Symphony Hall, the Kennedy Center, The Apollo Theater and now Sandpoint. They’ve appeared onstage with famed African vocal icon, Angelique Kidjo and the Boston Pops Orchestra led by maestro conductor Keith Lockhart. They’ve extensively toured North America and Asia.
Tickets are $25 for adults, $16 for POAC supporters, $10 for children 18 and under and can be purchased online at www.artinsandpoint.org or at the POAC Office, Eve’s Leaves, Eichardt’s, and Winter Ridge and at the Panida box office a half hour before the performance. Doors open at 7 p.m.
Information: POAC, 263-6139