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| Princely Players Are the First Arts Alive! Event of the Spring Semester released: 01/28/02 |
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| Starting off the Arts Alive! Spring 2002 season is the ensemble, The Princely Players. They will perform Tuesday, February 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Wesley Chapel in conjunction with Black Awareness Month. The Princely Players offer evocative and stunning programs on the enslavement and liberation of African-Americans. The eight member ensemble has performed their unique combination of spirituals, work songs, hymns, and songs of freedom at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Yale University, Ryman Auditorium, and Little Rock's Festival of Religious Arts, among many others. With song and poetry from the earliest sources of notated and oral African-American music in this country to the Civil War and the civil rights movement, The Princely Players deliver performances with superb voices and exceptional stage presence. The ensemble has been featured on TNN and the BBC and has been heard on National Public Radio's Wade in the Water series and the Time-Life Civil War recordings. The Princely Players have collaborated with Ladysmith Black Mambazo and the Nashville Symphony. This program is presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Division of Culture and History and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval by the West Virginia Commission on the Arts. This tour of the Princely Players is made possible by a grant from Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program. This event is open to the public and admission is $5 for adults and $3 for students/senior citizens. |