Ever wondered what “Amazing Grace” sounds like uptempo — with steel drums and strings mixed together?
Over 100 people found out at St. Luke’s Church on Whalley Avenue Monday. They saw the church’s renowned Steel Band mix it up with the string quarter from the Music Haven program located in a storefront steps away from St. Luke’s. (Music Haven, a not-for-profit, gives free after-school lessons to 60 kids.)
You can check out what “Grace” sounded like to — by clicking on the above play arrow. You can check out other visuals from the event — a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday celebration featuring a talk by the NAACP’s Scot X. Esdaile — thanks to the photos below sent in by Music Haven’s Kathleen Cei. And click here to read what The New York Times had to say about the “sonic” St. Luke’s steel-Music Haven strings “combination.”
I attended this terrific concert and found the mellow sounds of the steel drums set against the sharp sounds of the strings to be quite delightful! Music Haven's committment to the youth of our inner city was there for all to see. SXE's comments were right on! In the sixties and seventies he was worried about racist outsiders killing young blacks, but now they are killing each other.