Come Celebrate Gospel Music in Los Angeles! The Heritage Music Foundation (HMF) and the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive will celebrate their yearlong community partnership with a free gospel concert featuring college and young adult groups.

Monday, March 14, 2005
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Greater New Bethel Baptist Church
601 E 99th St.
Inglewood, CA

Known as the Gospel Archiving in Los Angeles (GALA) project, the partnership pairs the Archive's resources with HMF's reputation in the gospel-music community to document and celebrate the city's rich gospel history.

This free event will take place at Greater New Bethel Baptist Church (located at 601 E 99th St., in the city of Inglewood). The event begins at 7:30 PM, is open to the public, and will showcase college and young adult
gospel groups. Performers include:

UCSB Gospel Choir -- Directed  by Victor Bell
Back-on-Track -- Filipino American Gospel quartet
Biola University Gospel -- Directed by Marvina Levy
Envision Vocals -- UCLA group directed by Tim Ngubeni and Jonli Tunstall

And please join the celebration each Monday in March at Greater New Bethel for a host of other events:
·       March 21: 21st- Founder's Birthday Celebration-Traditional Night
·       March 28: 28th- Grand Finale-Contemporary night

To learn more about GALA, please contact the Ethnomusicology Archive at (310) 825-1695 or visit us online
http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/archive/gala.htm

Information provided by John Vallier - Archivist
UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive
1630 Schoenberg Music Building
Los Angeles, California 90095-1657
talk(310)825.1695/fax(310)206.4738
http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/Archive

Cost : Free and open to the public

www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/archive/gala.htm

Sponsor(s): Heritage Music Foundation, UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, and UCLA in LA. Information about non-ASC events is posted at the request of the sender and does not reflect opinions of or endorsements by African Studies Center personnel.