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CO-LLAB Choir directed by Cava Menzies

Sat, May 13, 2023, 1:00pm2:30pm

Free
Members of the CO-LLAB Choir and director Cava Menzies
Date:
Sat, May 13, 2023
Time:
1:00pm – 2:30pm
Venue:
Great Lawn, Yerba Buena Gardens
Mission St. between 3rd & 4th Sts.
San Francisco, CA + Google Map
Phone:
(415) 543-1718
Cost:
Free

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As the founder, director and guiding spirit of Oakland-based CO-LLAB Choir Cava Menzies has created a powerful new vehicle for bringing musicians together for synergistic collaboration. The 24-member contemporary vocal ensemble develops new works by vocalists and singer-songwriters through a rigorous process of co-arranging and co-writing material. The ensemble also collaborates with professional artists on studio recordings and performances, and for the group’s YBG Festival debut they’re presenting a soul-steeped program with special guests such as soul star Martin Luther McCoy and piano virtuoso Kev Choice. The show highlights the original compositions created by the singer-songwriters and arrangers within the ensemble, including a new composition commissioned by Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. “Our purpose as an ensemble is to express healing, love and unity through sound,” says Menzies, an esteemed pianist, vocalist, songwriter and educator who helped found Oakland School for the Arts.

 

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