Mosaic Harmony Awarded Fairfax Arts Council Diversity Grant

OAKTON, Va. - July 24, 2015 - PRLog -- The Arts Council of Fairfax County announced that Mosaic Harmony, an award winning, interfaith, multicultural choir, based in Oakton, Virginia was awarded a grant of more than $11,000 for a diversity project.  The grant was one of only 17 awards presented for diversity in the arts project.  The grant funding for 2016 is provided by Fairfax County.

The grant funding will enable Mosaic Harmony to collaborate with three Northern Virginia based diverse choirs, singing together in four different languages.  Along with Mosaic Harmony’s spiritual songs in the gospel tradition, the partner choirs, will sing in Hebrew, Spanish, Japanese and Korean.  The diversity project will consist of the four choirs recorded to sing separately and together while recording a unique, one-of-a-kind CD.  In spring 2016, a live concert will be held featuring all four choirs singing songs from the CD.

The concept of creating the very diverse choir program was begun nearly a year ago by Mosaic Harmony, with the support of the Arts Council, to participate in their project grant program for Fiscal Year 2016.  “The search to find three diverse choirs to sing with us was no easy feat,” noted Mary Lou McCarthy, current Mosaic Harmony Board President. “In the end, the three choirs, Olam Tikvah (Hebrew), Ketzal (Spanish) and Nova Church (Japanese/Korean) agreed to collaborate with us.”  Olam Tikvah and Nova Church are both located in Fairfax County, and Ketzal is based in Arlington County.

The selection of specific songs to be recorded are in the planning stages and, Mosaic Harmony’s music director Rev. David K. North, will be coordinating and organizing the song list with the four choirs and serving as producer for the CD and the live performance.  The live performance, will be in a yet to be decided Fairfax County High School auditorium in 2016.

McCarthy went on to note, “we are so excited about the diversity project.  It will be thrilling to sing with our new partner choirs because it’s a new experience for all involved in the project and we are so appreciative of the wonderful opportunity provided by the Arts Council of Fairfax County to assist  us in furthering our mission to unify the world one song at a time.”

Mosaic Harmony has recorded three previous CDs and performed in the Washington DC metropolitan area for the past twenty-one years in a variety of locations from the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center, the Pentagon, Washington Hospital Center, Northern Virginia Mental Health hospital and many others.  The choir begins their 22^nd season on September 8, 2015 and welcomes the community to join them.  For more information on the choir, their history and performance schedule and to hear samples from their CDs, visit their site, www.mosaicharmony.org