BAY AREA PREMIERE!

7:30 pm

La Peña Community Chorus and members of the Bay Area’s beloved Vukani Mawethu chorus join together in a concert dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s work for social justice by presenting a piece by former La Peña Chorus director John Maas. Vukani Mawethu’s focus on South African music and issues and La Peña Community Chorus’s focus on Latin American Nueva Canción come together in honor of Dr. King’s enormous legacy.

John Maas’s piece is a musical setting for piano, chorus, and narrator based on Dr. King’s stirring “I Have A Dream” speech that he delivered at the August 1963 March for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, DC. He implored and inspired us to bring about fundamental change through working together to realize true social justice and freedom for all in this country. His words are as urgent and inspiring today as they were then.

We are very excited to finally present this program after three years of the pandemic and in the interest of maintaining everyone’s good health and safety we will require everyone in attendance — performers and audience alike — to provide evidence of vaccination and ID and to wear a mask. It ain’t over ‘till it’s over, so let’s take care of ourselves and each other as we celebrate our return to live performance at La Peña.

2 pm

The La Peña Community Chorus takes John Maas's tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech to Sebastopol.

John's piece is a musical setting for piano, chorus, and narrator based on Dr. King’s stirring “I Have A Dream” speech that he delivered at the August 1963 March for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, DC. He implored and inspired us to bring about fundamental change through working together to realize true social justice and freedom for all in this country.

And we are excited to announce that John's chorus will join La Peña Chorus for part of the "I Have A Dream" piece as well as singing with us on several other songs.

After three years of the pandemic and in the interest of maintaining everyone’s good health and safety we will require everyone in attendance — performers and audience alike — to provide evidence of vaccination and i.d. and to wear a mask. It ain’t over ‘till it’s over, so let’s take care of ourselves and each other as we celebrate our return to live performance at La Peña.