David E. Robinson III writes:
Sinfo-Nia's
"One Love" Jamaica Performance Tour 2 for eleven days is scheduled to
take place July 3-14, 2018. The Still Waters Youth Sinfo-Nia Orchestra
of Metropolitan Atlanta will collaborate with the National Youth
Orchestra of Jamaica (NYOJ) under the direction of Darren Young and
Karen Prentice like last year. This year the Immaculate Conception High
School Orchestra in Kingston under the direction of Steven Woodham will
join us as well. Everyone had an exciting rehearsing, performing, and
fellowshipping together. This was truly a wonderful international
network experience.
There
is still room for high school and college musicians (and adults -
professional and amateur) to go on this trip. It is open to musicians
of any race, religion, etc. If you are interested or have students,
colleagues, that may be interested, they may pass this information along
to them. We are still receiving musicians as we speak. Please call
Alycia Robinson at (404) 428-3804.
Summary of the 2017 Performance Tour
We arrived in Jamaica
late Sunday evening, July 2nd and checked into the 138 Student Living
residences (dormitories) on the campus of the University of West Indies -
Mona. The next day, the students from the National Youth Orchestra of
Jamaica (NYOJ) came and rehearsed with us in this collaboration. We held
rehearsals those three days. Then we performed on the campus at the
Phillip Sherlock Centre for Creative Arts Thursday, July 6th, the Devon House
Park on Friday, July 7th, and Boulevard Baptist Church for their Sunday service
on July 9th.
We had some more fun
activities in between. We went to Holywell National Park. The ride
was interesting as it was a two-lane road going up high in the mountains with
many twists, turns, and beautiful scenery along the way. We went swimming
at Fort Clarence Beach. We visited the Bob Marley Museum. We ate at
several nice restaurants. At the Devon House, we got some delicious ice
cream. The "I Scream" shop there is ranked among the top ten in
the world. We had to make a second trip there just for that. After
our three performances, we went onto Ocho Rios and had fun climbing Dunn's
River Falls. Then we spent the finals days at El Greco Resort in Montego
Bay. We went swimming at their beach and pool. There were also
other ventures groups of students and parent went to such as the Jamaica Safari
Park, a rafting trip, and a boat trip,
We have announced this
summer’s performance tour to Jamaica. The dates are July 3-14, 2018. The NYOJ
students were so excited about the great time they had with us that they are
telling everyone in Jamaica including the NYOJ students that missed out last
year. We plan on performing with them again this summer.
Some of the NYOJ students are looking to attend
colleges in the U.S. to further their music studies. So far we have direct contact to the following schools. We would love to add more colleges to this list:
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Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia (for young
men); David Robinson graduated from there
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Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia (for young
women)
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Clark-Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia
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Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, Georgia (for
young women); Briana graudated from there
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Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
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Alabama A & M University, Normal, Alabama;
one of Sinfo-Nia alums graduated from there and taught with Sinfo-Nia
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Allen University, Columbia, South Carolina; the
music department chair, Dr. Alvoy Bryan, Jr. was a Sinfo-Nia student (he is
asking for students as we speak)
Sinfo-Nia Youth
Orchestra of Metropolitan Atlanta, GA USA is the ideal place for serious, young
orchestral musicians. Students learn to play a variety of multicultural
music. Jamaica was our third international trip we have taken with the
first to being to West Africa. One does not have to plan to major or
minor in music in college to be a part of Sinfo-Nia. We are looking for
students that are considering college music study. We want to prepare
them accordingly whereas they will get scholarship offers. We are in
touch with several colleges and universities with orchestra programs.
Sinfo-Nia
has begun its "Go Fund Me" Campaign to raise funds for this trip. We
are raising funds to offset the costs of some of our land trips (on the
bus from where we are staying to the performance venues; and airport
transportation). We are also raising funds to help offset the cost of
the meals. We would appreciate your donations.
Last,
but not least, if you have a community youth orchestra that would like
to travel in the future especially to the Caribbean and Africa, please
take note how Sinfo-Nia does it. Please know that there are serious
young orchestral musicians on these islands and in the Motherland. I
personally would like to start a youth orchestra program in Ghana, West
Africa in a few years. If you would like to form a community youth
orchestra, please let me know and I can guide you through the steps on
how to do it. It will require some time and investment. It certainly
is not a "cash cow" where you would get paid immediately, but you would
be making a valuable contribution to the orchestral music field.
Sincerely,
David E. Robinson III
Founder & Artistic Director
Still Waters Youth Sinfo-Nia
Please check out our website at www.sinfo-nia.com
Included are some
awesome music videos
Please check out our
Facebook page - "SinfoNia Orch"
and you will see
pictures and videos of our Jamaica Tour
Also on Facebook,
please check out our other page where you will see some music videos at “Sinfo-Nia”
(Musician/Band).
Here are some of our
videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snD394Kjv4
with up-and-coming singer,
Briyana Guadalupe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oukawYYYI7I with famed singers, actresses Chloe & Halle
Bailey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPI9GE5Xlzc with Keisha Jackson (daughter of Millie Jackson)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uktmk8e4xPU with rapper, 50 Cent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sCXMgzWr1k from the movie, "life.less"
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