My Journey Yours: Immigrant Stories (Minnehaha United Methodist Church)

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Please note: this is the Saturday 6pm performance in Minneapolis. To purchase tickets for the Sunday 2:00pm concert in St. Paul, click here.

My Journey Yours uplifts the music and stories of immigrants: the songs they bring from their homelands and their experiences of starting a new life in a new country. This multilingual program is a joint collaboration between Boston Choral Ensemble and Minneapolis Choir Co-Op that features works by immigrant composers and writers. “La Frontera'' by Judith Shatin, sets to music a poem by an undocumented immigrant youth held in an American maximum-security detention center. In “N-400 Erasure Song,” Melissa Dunphy reshapes text from the N-400, the application form to apply for US citizenship. “Finding a Home” by Sydney Guillaume blends English and Haitian Creole to express the anguish that comes from feeling out of place, while also celebrating the homes we have found and the ones we have yet to discover.

The concert concludes with songs from some of the immigrant communities of the Twin Cities, including Elliot Z. Levine's "My Dad the Mekong/Love Forever," featuring the work of two Hmong poets from the East Side of St. Paul.