Origins and Remembrance

• National Anthem - John Stafford Smith, (arr. Derric Johnson)

• Chester - William Billings (ed. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw)    

• Poetry reading: Remember by Joy Harjo

 

Resistance and Rising -- Black American Voices

• Still I Rise - Rosephayne Powell 

• Come Sunday - Duke Ellington (Solo)

• Walk Together Children - Traditional spiritual (arr. Moses Hogan)

 

Immigration, Land, and Voice

• De Colores - Folk song (arr. Vicente Chavarria)

• The Promise of Living - Aaron Copland

• The Water is Wide - Folk song, (arr. Craig Hella Johnson)

• Poetry reading: I Hear America Singing  - Walt Whitman

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Home and the Work of Belonging

• The Road Home - Stephen Paulus

• The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass - Carol Barnett

Performed with bluegrass band Gentlemen's Gambit​

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A Shared Song

• Unclouded Day - Rev. J.K. Elwood (arr. Shawn Kirchner)

• America The Beautiful - Samuel A. Ward (arr. Mack Wilberg)

with audience sing-along

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Encore

• Gentlemen's Gambit: TBA

• Providence Singers: This Land is Your Land - Woody Guthrie (arr. Robert de Cormier)