Happy Earth Day: Honoring Dr. Jacqueline Hairston

Honoring Dr. Jacqueline Hairston

The East Bay Church of Religious Science warmly invites the Community to join it in honoring its beloved Dr. Jacqueline Hairstonfor her dedicated service to its Music Ministry today, Sunday, April 22, 2012, during the 2nd service -11:30AM at the East Bay Church of Religious Science, 4130 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA, (510) 420-1003.

Dr. Hairston is relocating to Sacramento and has taken a music position with The Center for Spiritual Awareness.

We at Friends of Negro Spirituals will miss Jacqui and are most appreciative of the generous support she has given toward keeping the Negro Spirituals heritage alive in the Greater Bay Area and beyond.

February 19, 2012 Carnegie Hall

Lyvonne thanks Jacqui for allowing her to video/document the historic February 19, 2012 Carnegie Hall Concert in New York for the archive files of Friends of Negro Spirituals. Lyvonne is currently editing the video footage, from which she will make a DVD.

We will invite Jacqui, those who were associated with the concert, and the public to a showing of the finished DVD.

In the meanwhile, Yvette Johnson, a FNS member in New York, has written a review of the concert; the review is attached.