Press Release on 10 May, 2023
60th Anniversary of M.L.King´s legendary Speech
We call all Choirs, Music Groups, Churches, Human Rights Organizations and any others all around the world who love ideas of Freedom expressed by M.L.King in his legendary Speech I have a dream on 28/8/1963 and who love American Spirituals which were honored by the U.S. Congress the National Treasure on 7/2/2007 to organize concerts of American (Negro) Spirituals at your places named LET FREEDOM RING on the date of 60th Anniversary of this speech which is on 28/8/2023 or possibly any other day in 2023.
We are looking for vocal choirs, groups and singers who would like to organize their Spirituals Concerts Let Freedom Ring at their places not only fulfilling the M.L.King´s vision that all people with no exception would sing hand in hand Negro Spiritual, but also express by the common singing their unity with the ideas of understanding between nations and different groups, general human brotherhood and the right for every person for full-rounded place on the earth.
Let´s Go to celebrate that special event on the anniversary date on 28/8/2023 (or some other day in 2023) so that we together would share and spread the ideas of brotherhood, spiritual joy, faith and hope contained in spirituals at our places where we live all around the world.
We are aware of growing influence of extremists´ movements, nationalism, racism, minorities hatred and other xenophobia consequences in many countries of the globe. We have no power to stop them but we have the prayer to pray, songs and voices to sing, hands to clap in the rythm and dreams to dream. Let´s do it. Let´s express our unity in variety. Let´s Freedom Ring!
You are welcome to use any arrangements of Spirituals which cohere with their original meaning to follow the ideas of human dignity, sincerity and real spiritual joy. You are welcome to remind the main ideas from M.L.King´s speach, the story of his life, his non-violence philosophy comming from the Bible and the teaching of Jesus Christ and M.K.Gandhi.
You are welcome to share you participation at the Concerts LET FREEDOM RING by short announcement to the below e-mail address. We would inform King Centre in Atlanta, Georgia, the U.S.A. and media. (The names of the participants and the locations will be listed at the special web page which is now being prepared.)
There may be two kinds of participants
1) Choirs or music bodies singing Spirituals as regular and serious part of their repertoire (TRADITIONAL PARTICIPANTS)
2) Choirs or music bodies singing different kind of music, but want to express their positive acceptance of M.L.Kin´s dream They would have at their special concert at least one American Spiritual (EXPRESSIVE PARTICIPANTS).
BOTH ARE WELCOME AT THIS CAMPAIGNE.
Regarding your Concert, please, advice
a) Your full name, e-mail addres, postal address, telephone number
b) The full name of your Choir, Musical Group or community with number of singers and/or musicians
c) List of other groups sharing your singing event
d) The place and date of your Concert LET FREEDOM RING
e) Your partners (media and/or others)) of the event (not obligatory)
ASfter the Concert we would appreciate your links to Facebook or another media where you can upload your videos, pictures, press release regarding your event.
If you have any question, feel free to contact us.
On behalf of the International A Cappella group LET´S GO! and DNA A Cappella Group we are looking forward to co-operation with you about this exciting project.
Marek Šlechta
Organiser of Choir´s Happening REMEMBER! +420 774 685 370, mailto:marek.sle@seznam.cz
Leader of the International A Cappella group LET´S GO! www.lets-go.eu
Certified Lecturer of holocaust and antisemitism https://marekslechta.webnode,.cz
Lecturer of Human Rights
Václav Brázda
External journalist for the radio Proglas +420 777 640 556
representative of CASA in the Czech Republic mailto:vdna@seznam.cz
Conductor of DNA A Cappella Group www.dejnamakord.cz
