Soul Music
 

Music Down in My Soul
 Itís a great way to spend a spring, Sunday afternoon. Our award-winning vocal ensembles will perform an exciting mix of classical, jazz, gospel, and multicultural folk music in one evening, at "Music Down in My Soul," the final spring choir concert for Cuesta College. The concert is scheduled to kick off at 3 p.m., Sunday, May 2 in the Clark Center in Arroyo Grande. The performance is under the direction of music instructors John Knutson and Rudolfas Budginas.

The spring concert will feature the Cuesta College Chamber Singers and the Concert Choir. The Chamber Singers will be performing Lux Aurumque, a work from California composer Eric Whitacre and Amor de mi Alma, by Z. Randall Stroope. The chamber choir also will sing the Road Not Taken, a gorgeous setting of the famous Robert Frost poem. The Chamber Singers will close the show with Music Down in My Soul, a hard-hitting gospel number that will get the audience on their feet.

The award-winning Cuesta vocal jazz ensemble, VocË, also will join the show. The group will be singing their greatest acapella jazz hits: I Hear Music (made famous by Ella Fitzgerald), Acapella in Acapulco (a funny song about going "acapella" on the beach), and a new version of John Lennonís In My Life.