The choir performs at the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas on Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 at 8 p.m. and George Mason University’s Center for the Arts in Fairfax on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014 at 8 p.m. Pre-performance discussions, free to ticketholders will be held 45 minutes prior to each performance in the Buchanan Partners Art Gallery at the Hylton Center and Grand Tier III at the Center for the Arts (sponsored by the Friends of the Center for the Arts).
The Senegal St. Joseph’s Gospel Choir has become a symbol of peace, hope, humanity and brotherhood throughout its homeland of Senegal since the ensemble’s founding in 1950 by the late Julien Jouga, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s Ambassador Artist for Peace.