For tonight’s Collingwood Music Festival performance the Nathaniel Dett Chorale will have ASL interpreters with them
NEWS RELEASE
COLLINGWOOD MUSIC FESTIVAL
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The Collingwood Music Festival is so pleased to share the news that for their Thursday, July 13th 7pm concert, featured artists The Nathaniel Dett Chorale will have ASL (American Sign Language) interpreters with them throughout their performance titled “A Fantasy of Spirituals, Partsongs and Folk Songs”.
The Festival’s artistic director Daniel Vnukowski exclaimed: “We are thrilled that the Nathaniel Dett Chorale is bringing ASL interpreters to our festival this year in order to make the occasion all the more pleasant and engaging for d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. It is a well-known fact that we absorb and enjoy live music experiences through our bodies, as much as we do through our ears. After all, Beethoven wrote his monumental 9th symphony by way of the vibrations of his piano and did not allow his profound deafness to stop him.”
The Nathaniel Dett Chorale is Canada’s first professional choral group dedicated to Afrocentric music of all styles, including classical, spiritual, gospel, jazz, folk and blues. The 21 classically trained outstanding vocalists of The Nathaniel Dett Chorale have shared the stage with internationally recognized artists such as Juno Award-winning jazz pianist Joe Sealy, singers Molly Johnson and Jackie Richardson, and opera star Kathleen Battle and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. The ensemble has performed for such luminaries as opera singer Jessye Norman and Dance Theatre of Harlem founder Arthur Mitchell.
The Chorale has performed at events honouring world leaders Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, personality Muhammad Ali, and pianist Oscar Peterson and was the only Canadian ensemble invited to perform as part of the celebrations surrounding the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama in January of 2009.
Info and ticket ordering for this concert and the rest of this week’s Collingwood Music Festival events at: https://collingwoodfestival.com/ or phone (705) 416-1317.
The venue for all concerts is First Presbyterian Church at 200 Maple Street, in the heart of downtown Collingwood. It is wheelchair-friendly, offering easy access for patrons with special mobility needs.
The Collingwood Music Festival is a proud recipient of funding support from The Ontario Trillium Foundation, Simcoe County, the Town of Collingwood and Regional Tourism Organization 7.
The Collingwood Summer Music Festival acknowledges that the area in which we work is the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat peoples and is subject to Treaty 18, 1818 of the Upper Canada Treaties.
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