Mosaic Harmony Presents One Humankind in Music as part of 2017 World Interfaith Harmony Week

OAKTON, Va. - Oct. 24, 2016 - PRLog -- Mosaic Harmony, an award winning, interfaith, multicultural community choir based in Northern Virginia proudly announces their participation and hosting of a concert in celebration of the 2017 United Nations World Interfaith Harmony Week on January 28, 2017. World Interfaith Harmony Week, which is held annually during the first week in February, brings together thousands around the world.  The January 28 concert, open to all, is entitled "Mosaic Harmony & Friends – One Humankind in Music", celebrating the ability of the language of music to bring people together and focus on our common humanity rather than the differences that set us apart.  This will be the second consecutive year that Mosaic Harmony has presented the event and expects to have confirmation from invited choirs before the start of the holiday season.

North, a successful songwriter in his own right, wrote the song "One Humankind" upon which the theme of the concert is based, with the intention of specifically using it in Mosaic Harmony's concerts and a natural tie in to their theme "Make Us One."  North has invited other choirs who are like-minded in their approach to music and their place in the world to participate in the January 28 event, which Mosaic Harmony committed to producing annually at various venues in the area.  The concert will be an opportunity to meet choirs from throughout the area and to show that music is indeed the universal language that brings people together. Mosaic Harmony will be traveling in March 2017 to participate in the International Peace and Brotherhood Choral Festival in the Castelli Romani region near Rome Italy. They will participate in four performances in churches and community settings, tour Rome, Vatican City, and nearby hill towns and gardens, and meet, perform, and socialize with other choirs.

Over their twenty-two year history, Mosaic Harmony has garnered praise and developed close ties from their varied performances at fundraisers, corporate events, educational institutions, churches, government agencies and private events in the Washington metropolitan area.  The choir has received many awards most notably in 1997; they were chosen by the Fairfax County Human Rights Commission to receive its prestigious Human Rights Award and in 1998, were the recipient of the President's Initiative on Race as a model program that encourages participation of people from different racial backgrounds. Promising. Mosaic Harmony was included on the White House web site as one of the country's Promising Practices, which highlights efforts to improve race relations and build One America. Other performances have included: the Baha'i Black Awards Banquets/Baha'i Conferences on Race Amity; a Millennium Celebration program at Addas Israel, Washington, DC (a conservative Hebrew temple) designed by the Interfaith Conference of Washington to bring together youth of nine major world religions; a sunrise ceremony millennial celebration beginning in Samoa, which spread across 27 countries; a wave of peaceful intention sponsored by the International Club of Budapest, consisting of former statesmen, Nobel laureates, writers, and scientists; the Finnish Embassy " Search for Common Ground" event; travel to Germany and Slovenia on a Goodwill Tour; sponsored a reciprocal visit by Musica Viva, the internationally known Slovenian choir that hosted Mosaic Harmony.  In 2004, Habitat for Humanity, Northern Virginia Chapter was celebrated by a joint benefit concert venue shared with the Slovenian choir, Musica Viva, during their reciprocal Goodwill visit. In 2006, Slovenian choir, "France Preseren", silver medalists in the International Choir Olympics, was home-hosted and offered venues by Mosaic Harmony. Additional repeat performances at the Interfaith Choir Festival of Reston, Homeless in DC and Annapolis; the Lakota Nation; BODYWISE (a fitness program for seniors); Open Books, Open Hearts tutoring program; efforts to build a church in Dominican Republic, work with inner city youth in Atlanta, the Medical Benevolence Foundation's home-based orphan care program for HIV/AIDS in Africa; Katrina flood relief; brain tumor cancer research all in an effort to assist these organization with their fundraising goals. The choir was also recognized "Changemakers" by Ashoka (www.Ashoka.org) and in 2006, provided, through their international newsletter, the seeds and structure for two interfaith children's choirs in Jerusalem, Israel.  Says North, "producing a concert with our friends in celebration of World Interfaith Harmony Week was a no brainer, clearly this is our wheelhouse, we live and believe in this mission."

On June 3, 2017, they will host their 23^rd annual fundraiser concert, which will be held at Reston Community  Center Hunter Woods.  Tickets and sponsorship opportunities will be available beginning February 1, 2017.

For more information on Mosaic Harmony, visit www.mosaicharmony.org. Media inquiries please contact promotions@mosaicharmony.org.  For additional information on 2017 World Interfaith Harmony Week please visit www.worldinterfaithharmonyweek.com