All the Love in Your Heart

Island Soul Choir is back once again with another concert of amazing soul music. Over the years, every concert has seemed like the best one ever. Under the direction of Tom Arntzen, Island Soul Choir will take their performance to yet another higher level!! Tom has selected such a variety of songs, including Aretha Franklin’s “Rock Steady”, Carole King’s “Beautiful”, Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” and Billy Preston’s “Will It Go Round In Circles”, along with other standards and African songs. To support one of their favourite singer-songwriters as she navigates her healing journey through cancer, the choir will be singing Coco Love Alcorn’s “Unbreakable” song to remind her of her innate strength and determination.

Island Soul Choir is delighted to have Buwa as their guest artist for this concert. Buwa is an emerging Nigerian artist who now lives and performs in stage productions on Vancouver Island… someone you want to keep on your radar! Drawing influences from the late Whitney Houston, as well as Jill Scott, India Arie, Billy Porter, and Brenda Fassie, Buwa is an exciting contemporary soul artist, with pop and R&B sensibilities and a penchant for storytelling. He channels his infectious melodies, versatile voice and captivating song writing, into poetry and performance art to change the way the world sees Africa. Watch Buwa in this YouTube video.

NanGo Grannies will partner once again with Island Soul Choir at this concert. They will be selling crafts and baked goods in the theatre lobby before the concert and during the intermission, and all proceeds will be used to support The Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmothers-to-Grandmothers Campaign. Even after almost two decades since the Campaign’s inception, thousands of grandmothers and “grand/younger-others” are more committed than ever to raise awareness, build solidarity, and mobilize funds for community-based organizations that support African grandmothers and the children in their care who have been orphaned by AIDS. We encourage our audience to take advantage of this opportunity to support this truly worthwhile endeavour.

We hope to see you there!

Phenomenal! We’ll absolutely be back for another concert… So exhuberant!… Loved being part of the uplifting energy… Lots of fun… We just loved it!… Thanks for such a lovely show… The singers are so enthusiastic!… Wonderful! We really enjoyed it… Very uplifting!… Absolutely delightful… Fabulous… Makes you want to join… Really fun to watch you guys… Always great… Fantastic!