The "Negro Spiritual" Scholarship Foundation

Our annual calendar of events gives our agency several opportunities to showcase the enormous talent of our professional and student artists, to gather patrons and supporters for fellowship around our cause, and to introduce our programs to new friends of the Foundation. We use these occasions to advance the values that are fundamental to fulfilling our mission:

*TO PRESERVE AND PROMOTE THE HERITAGE OF ARRANGED NEGRO SPIRITUALS
*TO PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIP ASSISTANCE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS ENTERING COLLEGE

Please join us for any or all of these events. We will greet you warmly, treat you kindly, and fill you with wonder and delight!!




	Our annual calendar of events gives our agency several opportunities to showcase the enormous talent of our professional and student artists, to gather patrons and supporters for fellowship around our cause, and to introduce our programs to new friends of the Foundation. We use these occasions to advance the values that are fundamental to fulfilling our mission: TO PRESERVE AND PROMOTE THE HERITAGE OF ARRANGED NEGRO SPIRITUALS TO PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIP ASSISTANCE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS ENTERING COLLEGE Please join us for any or all of these events. We will greet you warmly, treat you kindly, and fill you with wonder and delight!!

	*Downtown Community Concert (Orlando)* Variety Program GRADY-RAYAM PRIZE Vocalists Date: TBA Location: TBA Free/Open to the Public Orlando, Florida 2010 GRADY-RAYAM PRIZE (Florida) Competition Finals Vocal competition, Master class (Composer-in-Residence/Staff Accompanist/Lecturer) 2010 GRADY-RAYAM PRIZE Finalists Saturday, 13 February 2010 Anne McGregor Jenkins Hall (Seating by Reservation) Florida Southern College Lakeland, Florida *Fourteenth Annual WORLD-PREMIERE GALA* Recital program featuring Donovan Singletary as our WORLD-PREMIERE Artist and Uzee Brown, Jr. our 2010 composer-in-residence along with the 2010 GRADY-RAYAM PRIZE Vocalists Saturday, 6 March 2010 at 6:30 p.m. Portofino Bay Hotel Orlando, Florida				Canes and Crowns Breakfast Buffet A Dorothy T. Johnson Guild/Orlando Opera Guild Event Mini-Recital 2010 GRADY-RAYAM PRIZE Winning Vocalists TBD Orlando, Florida *Annual Corporate Meeting* Mini-Recital (Board of Directors, Invited Guests) GRADY-RAYAM PRIZE Runners-up Vocalists Wednesday, 12 May 2010 TBD Orlando, Florida ‘Suitable Airs’ XII Benefit concert of Negro spirituals Sunday, 2 October 2010 at 7:00 p.m. Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church Eatonville, Florida