Arts Events in Jamaica Queens NYC
We celebrate the new moon with an expressive art event based on the culture & celebrations of the African diaspora and of the American continents.
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August 2020 New Moon Event
The Event Script
Set: Black Anthem
Life Every Voice and Sing --> Lyrics below
Set: Back to Nature with Macaco --> Lyrics
Perfect Offering
Step by Step
Light is Returning
Earth My Body
Set G.L.I.V.E
Senta
Ashe' Fela
Yankadi
Set: Reggae --> Lyrics
Set: Hip Hop
Set: Samba
Photo's by @jc.jcaceres111
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Lift ev'ry voice and sing
'Til earth and heaven ring
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the list'ning skies
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun
Let us march on 'til victory is won
Stony the road we trod
Bitter the chastening rod
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died
Yet with a steady beat
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered
Out from the gloomy past
'Til now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast
God of our weary years
God of our silent tears
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way
Thou who has by Thy might
Led us into the light
Keep us forever in the path, we pray
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee
Shadowed beneath Thy hand
May we forever stand
True to our God
True to our native land
Songwriters: J. Rosamond Johnson / James Johnson
Source: LyricFind
Lift Every Voice and Sing lyrics © Carlin America Inc
LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING by Ray Charles
WSSU Choir - Lift Every Voice and Sing - arr. Roland M. Carter