The Still Waters Youth Sinfo-Nia Orchestra and Dance Company, founded in 1990 as the William Grant Still Memorial Youth Orchestra, will hold its 19th Annual Summer Academy July 7-18, 2008 at Morris Brown College. Sinfo-Nia will perform at Ruben Studdard’s music camp in Birmingham, AL on Wednesday, July 16 and at the National Black Arts Festival “Children’s Village” on Thursday and Friday, July 17 and 18. Sinfo-Nia will travel to take part in the National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM) Conference at the Downtown Marriott in Chattanooga, TN July 26-30.
Young musicians from middle school through college are invited to take part in the NANM Conference (http://www.nanm.org) July 26 through Aug. 1, 2008. Musicians would rehearse and perform as a part of the Conference’s D. Jerlene Harding Memorial/National Association of Negro Musicians Orchestra under the direction of David E. Robinson, III who lives in Atlanta. Strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion players are needed. The Orchestra is also looking for dancers highly experienced in ballet and modern dance. Sinfo-Nia is under the direction of David and Alycia Robinson. For more information, call them at (404) 328-0840 or send an e-mail to stillwaters690@yahoo.com. The website is http://www.stillwatersyouthsinfo-nia.org. Students that live out-of-town are certainly invited to take part if they have relatives in metro Atlanta that they can stay with.
Still Waters Youth Sinfo-NiaOrchestra and Dance Company
Summer Academy July 7-18
National Association of Negro Musicians
National Black Arts Festival
William Grant Still
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