A Festival Weekend Celebrating Girls Empowered Through Music!

GETMusic! is the Pennsylvania Girlchoir’s answer to author Eve Ensler’s “call to girls, about girls, for girls, around the world to be their authentic selves.” The GETMusic! Festival is a celebration--funded in part by the Knight Foundation’s Arts Challenge--featuring hundreds of young female singers, a female guest conductor, and multiple female composers for a choral experience you will never forget!

This Saturday evening attendees will enjoy the musical piece, “I Am Woman,” written by poet Sonia Sanchez and arranged by composer Andrea Clearfield, for its world premier at the event, commissioned especially for GETMusic! Clearfield is an award-winning composer of music for orchestra, chorus, chamber ensemble, dance, and multimedia collaborations. She has been praised by the New York Times for her “graceful tracery and lively, rhythmically vital writing,” the Philadelphia Inquirer for her “compositional wizardry” and “mastery with large choral and instrumental forces,” the L.A. Times for her “fluid and glistening orchestration,” and by Opera News for her “vivid and galvanizing” music of “timeless beauty.”

PG chose the breath-taking poem, “I Am Woman,” by Sonia Sanchez for Clearfield to set. Sanchez is a national and International lecturer on Black Culture and Literature, Women’s Liberation, Peace and Racial Justice, as well as a sponsor of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and Board Member of MADRE.

Ms. Sanchez will be joining PG for this sensational experience of empowerment through choral music, along with an array of fantastic voices from:

AMLA (Artistas y Músicos Latino Americanos)
Moorestown Friends School
Our Mother of Consolation Parish School
Philadelphia High School for the Creative & Performing Arts
Princeton Girlchoir
William Penn Charter School
PLUS many girls who registered on their own from the surrounding communities the Philadelphia area!

Located at Tindley Temple, these young vocalists are getting the chance to participate in a bit of history at this already distinguished venue. It just so happens that the namesake of Tindley Temple, African American Methodist minister Charles Albert Tindley of Philadelphia, was the original composer of the civil rights anthem, "We Shall Overcome!"

Join us on Saturday, October 18th at 5:00pm for a sensational experience of "Girls Empowered through Music!"

Tindley Temple
750 S Broad Street | Philadelphia, PA 19146