The Florida A&M University (FAMU) Lyceum Series is proud to
present award-winning gospel singers, The Clark Sisters, Friday October
7, at 7:30 p.m. in Lee Hall Auditorium.
Tickets
are now available through ticketmaster.com and the FAMU box office for
$45, $30 and $20, depending on the location of the seats.
This
is the fourth time this year that all sisters will perform together.
Furthermore, this is only the second time the Clark Sisters have
performed on a college campus since their last performance at FAMU in
the 90s.
With a compelling, commanding fusion of
styles as diverse as blues, jazz, R&B and classical, the Clark
Sisters, which consists of sisters Jacky, Twinkie, Karen and Dorinda,
created a sound that was new, fresh and entirely their own.
On
Live – One Last Time, their newest release and first album together in
more than 12 years, is truly landmark work. The project is an epic
undertaking of unprecedented scope.
With
virtually unlimited range, dazzling dynamics and multi-textured runs,
riffs, and scats that have long been hallmarks of their singular vocal
style, the Clark Sisters sound has given inspiration to countless
singers of today. With millions of album sales to their collective
credit, that select circle includes gospel, mainstream R&B and pop
stars.
The sisters, born between
1951 and 1960, all showed prodigious musical talent from early
childhood, and were raised under the careful musical and moral tutelage
of their pastor father and mother.
The
seeds for what would become Live – One Last Time were first planted by
Karen’s husband when he suggested the foursome reunite to give posterity
and the flocks of still-faithful Clark Sisters fans a taste of some new
“sisters” material, as well as new, live renditions of a large number
of Clark standards.
Live – One Last Time was
recorded in July 2006, before a sell-out crowd of 6,000 in Houston’s
George R. Brown Convention Center.
For more information, contact the Office of Communications at (850) 599-3413.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
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