DC Labor Chorus Sings "Favorite and Sacred Songs" Saturday

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)The DC Labor Chorus’ annual Concert of Favorite and Sacred Songs -- set for this Saturday at 7:30p -- “is not the usual solemn holiday presentation of sacred songs,” says Chorus Director Elise Bryant. “The songs have been brought to the chorus by individual members who find the songs personally significant,” says Bryant. “As the chorus is multicultural and multilingual, so are the songs.” This year’s selections include a parody of The Dreidel Song, which one member brought back from the union actions in Wisconsin, Harry Belafonte’s “Turn the World Around,” “Tu Cantar” by Chilean activist Eduardo Yanez, a militant Irish hymn, the “Internationale” in Arabic, satirical songs by resident parodist Will Rice, and a medley of secular holiday tunes, for which children in the audience are invited up to the stage. “They are all delivered with the spirit and verve typical of the DC Labor Chorus,” Bryant promises. - photo of chorus-member Lakeisha Harrison at 2010 concert courtesy of Susan Clark