America’s Got Talent’s Golden Buzzer-winning vocal sensation and Los Angeles’ premier community choir Angel City Chorale's vibrant spring concert, Rhythms of the Americas, will take place on Sunday, June 9th for one performance only at UCLA’s famed Royce Hall. For this special event, ACC will be led by the much sought-after Guest Conductor Dr. Cristian Grases, the Vice Dean for the Classical Performance and Composition Division at USC’s Thornton School of Music who has directed prestigious musical groups all over the world. ACC will also offer a livestream of the concert for guests who are not able to attend in person.
The all-new concert event will take the audience on a thrilling musical journey across the Western Hemisphere. With lively beats from the Caribbean, choruses from Indigenous American cultures and the soulful melodies of North and South America, the concert promises to captivate and inspire with songs in a wide variety of styles and five different languages including English, Spanish, and Portuguese, as well as Native American and Afro-Brazilian languages. Rhythms expressed through dance, handclaps and drumming, vibrant harmonies, and visuals will evoke emotions to make spirits soar.
The electrifying 180-voice Angel City Chorale along with the ACC Music Ensemble will excite viewers with fresh, newly orchestrated arrangements of familiar titles like Duke Ellington’s It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got that Swing and Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds and will have people on their feet with the lively rendition of Diane White-Clayton’s Clap Praise.