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Pastor Marichal Monts '84 Leads Ebony Singers
In Special Benefit Performance for the Green Street Arts Center

Middletown, CT, September 15, 2006-Wesleyan University announced this week that the Ebony Singers, under the direction of Marichal Monts '84, would perform a special concert on Friday, October 20 at 9pm, to benefit the Green Street Arts Center. The concert will take place on campus in Crowell Concert Hall (Wyllys Ave., Middletown). General admission is $35; a limited number of Patron tickets are available for $100 and includes dinner at Green Street in addition to the performance. Benefactor tickets are also available, all tickets may be purchased by calling the University Box Office at 860-685-3355.

"We have been fortunate to have the support of many talented performers at Green Street's benefits-including Wesleyan Alumnae Tierney Sutton and Dar Williams. Ebony Singers' gospel music is perfect for this joyful celebration of our mission and of those who make our success possible," commented Green Street Director Janis Astor del Valle.

For over twenty years, charismatic conductor/singer Marichal Monts, Pastor of Citadel of Love in Hartford, CT, has directed The Ebony Singers, Wesleyan's resident gospel choir whose concerts each semester sell-out weeks in advance. Performing with a live band in Crowell Concert Hall, the group takes audiences on an uplifting journey of soulful inspiration.

The Ebony Singers is a popular Wesleyan class that requires a rigorous audition. They study black religious music through the media of performance. They perform traditional and contemporary gospel, spirituals and hymns in the black tradition. 

The Green Street Arts Center, which opened in January 2005, is an initiative of Wesleyan University developed in collaboration with the City of Middletown and the North End Action Team and serves as an anchor to the revitalization efforts currently underway in the North End. Programming in the former schoolhouse at 51 Green Street includes a vibrant after-school program and a wide range of affordable classes and workshops for children and adults in music, dance, visual arts, theater, sound recording, media arts and creative writing.

Participation at the GSAC is open to everyone; tuition assistance is available. To receive more information about the Green Street Arts Center, call 860-685-7871 or visit www.greenstreetartscenter.org.