Great success for the Christmas Tour of the Free Voices Gospel Choir which continues in the most magical season of the year with benefit concerts organized together with local institutions and bodies, between solidarity and commitment in the area.
After Christmas we continue with the “heart” day of the new Tour of the Free Voices Gospel Choir: on Sunday 29 December, not one, but two concerts will take place at the Fonderie Limone in Moncalieri (TO) – one at 5pm and one at 9pm – below the artistic direction of Laura Robuschi and with the patronage and collaboration of the City of Moncalieri. Exceptional guest star: Claudia Ginga.
Ginga is an Afro-Italian artist who ranges from soul to gospel to the contemporary sounds of black music. Chorister of the famous African-American singer and vocal coach Cheryl Porter, she has collaborated as a backing vocalist with artists such as Mario Biondi, Eros Ramazzotti, Zucchero. She recently participated in the television show “Amici di Maria De Filippi” as a backing vocalist for the Italian singer Enrico Nigiotti. His concert “A BRAND NEW CHRISTMAS” will take the audience on a journey, a journey to the roots of Gospel to savor its most modern and contemporary sounds!
The proceeds will benefit the “ACP Humanitarian Aid” association, for the “Mensa” project which, thanks to the commitment of the Rev. Luigi Pecora of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Grazia in via Pastrengo 78 in Moncalieri, and many passionate and willing citizens supports over hundreds of families in the Moncalier area and beyond, every Sunday, for daily food needs that should not be taken for granted.
For the occasion, a real solidarity network was launched in the area for the promotion and sale of tickets for the two concerts, thanks to the collaboration of special partners from Moncalieri – including the Parish of Our Lady of Victories, in via Cairoli 14 in Moncalieri , in the person of Don Manuel Lunardi – who did not hesitate to share the beneficial objectives of the event.
Tickets for the 5pm concert can be purchased on Eventbrite
The last stop of the tour, on January 1st at 9pm, will open 2025 in the splendid location of the Palazzo delle Feste di Bardonecchia, in Piazza Valle Stretta 1, with an evening organized by the Municipality of Bardonecchia in collaboration with Estemporanea. Entrance tickets (€10 plus commission) can be purchased on oooh.events or at the Bardonecchia Tourist Office.
Evenings aimed at gospel music enthusiasts, with proposals for characteristic black music songs performed by over 80 FREE choristers, accompanied by live music as well as timeless blues and jazz rhythm songs, unusual Latin rhythm sounds, some new songs and the inevitable songs that immediately make Christmas.
Free Voices Gospel Choir®
Almost 800 concerts held, 80 choristers, 15 soloists, 4 musicians, a choreographic group of 6 dancers led by the director and founder Laura Robuschi, 7 self-produced CDs, hundreds of themed shows organized with singing workshops and choreography workshops, black music in schools throughout Piedmont and multiple participations in the major national gospel music festivals.
Added to this are countless artistic collaborations with internationally renowned teachers and just as many collaborations with social voluntary associations, religious institutes, public and private bodies (including: Emergency, AISLA, Altro Domani, AIDO, AIRCC of Candiolo, AVIS, Rainbow for AfricaSermig, Oltre i Confini, Casa UGI, Fondazione Magnetto, FCA Italy, AC Milan and Juventus FC).
These are the numbers that well represent the 27 years of activity of the Voci Libere Association, a non-profit created with the aim of disseminating Afro-American culture and the values of freedom and solidarity typical of Gospel music, which in 1997 in Beinasco gave birth to the Free Voices Gospel Choir®, many free and different voices as different are the experiences, history and religious feelings of each chorister, which flow into a single song animated by the common passion for a way of making music and sending a message of faith and hope.
Since 2000 the Free Voices Gospel Choir® is the promoter of “Gospel sotto le stelle®”, one of the most important national events, which over time has attracted thousands of singers, enthusiasts and professionals of gospel music under the expert guidance of international artists, among others: Cheryl Porter, Bob Singleton, Bazil Meade, Daniel Stenbaek, Anthony Morgan, Nehemiah H. Brown, Karen Gibson, Malcolm Chambers, Chris Harris, Rose Harper, Vaughan Phoenix, Wendell Simpksin, Calvin Bridges and Daniel Thomas and Rudy Fantin.
On stage, directing one of the most important Italian Mass choirs, the founder and Director Laura Robuschi guides the choir and is the true soul of the various training, study and vocal experimentation activities that it offers in the area. Free voices for 25 years, simply #faccedafree.
*For 27 years with Free Voices we have had the honor of singing notes of peace, faith and generosity in squares, theatres, prisons and at major international events, following the values of freedom that have always characterized the gospel. An embrace of hope is the message that will follow this new tour of ours. A dream of peace that unites us, in a world context steeped in war and decidedly worrying, which we will sing with the same passion and dedication as always.
Christmas offers the gospel and all of us an extra joy and we are happy to share it with our general public by collaborating in initiatives that benefit the communities. Laura Robuschi, Director and Founder of the Free Voices Gospel Choir
