Good Friday Service Reaches Out to Community With Blues and
Gospel Music
Staying
true to its long history and commitment to justice and mercy through worship
and the arts, poetry, dance, and historic preservation, St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery announces plans for its annual
Good Friday Blues on Friday, April 2, noon to 3:00 p.m. presented this year
via Zoom.
“The experience is a spiritual journey,” says Jeannine Otis, Director of
Music at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery. “Through the genre of the blues,
which evokes the history of struggle and dealing with challenges, we explore
the unbreakable connection to and boundless love from God that emerges in even the darkest times. It is beautifully cathartic.”
WHAT: St.
Mark's Church in-the-Bowery presents its 20th annual Good Friday Blues, which
includes the Passion according to the Gospel of John, meditations by three
preachers, and music presented from artists across New York City. All are
welcome to this virtual show.
WHO: Featuring
leaders of the Episcopal Dioceses of New York, Grammy-award winning
performers and members of the St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery greater
community, many of whom are inaugural Good Friday Blues performers:
SPEAKING: - Rt. Rev. Andrew M. L.
Dietsche, Bishop
of the Episcopal Diocese of New York
- Dr. Nell Gibson, lifelong and dedicated
activist to racial equality and social justice
- Co-Creator Rt. Rev. Catherine S.
Roskam, Suffragan
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, retired
PERFORMANCES BY:
- Stanley Banks, Grammy award-winning bassist
for George Benson
- Art Barron, jazz trombonist, formerly of
the Duke Ellington band, who has performed with Lady Gaga, Stevie
Wonder, Bruce Springsteen and Tony Bennett
- Michelle DellaFave, vocalist, who is a veteran of
television, including a longtime run as a singer-dancer in the
groups “The Golddiggers” and “The Dingaling Sisters” on The Dean Martin Show
- Danny Kean, celebrated pianist, who has
played with Stevie Cochran, Sam “Buzman” Taylor, and has performed
at the Apollo Theater
- Ayodele Maakheru, guitarist and performer in
Broadway orchestras, including Bring in da Noise/Bring in da Funk, The Full Monty,
and The Wiz
- Carol Maillard, director of Grammy-award
winning a capella group Sweet Honey in the Rock
- Larry Marshall, veteran actor and Grammy
award-winning singer featured in 15 Broadway productions, who recently
starred as Joe in Waitress
- Brocton Pierce, actor of television and film,
whose credits include P.S.
I Love You, Confessions, and Law and Order: Special
Victims Unit
- Rev Anne Sawyer Rector of SAINT MARKS CHURCH
- The St. Mark's Choir, and more...
For a complete list of performers, please contact Jeannine Otis or Jay
Johnson at 212-674-6377 or email press@stmarksbowery.org |