The Americas Vocal Ensemble, their Music Director Nelly Vuksic and pianist Cesar Vuksic will present "Music from Yesterday and Today in the Americas" on Sunday, June 18, 2006 - 2 PM at the Flushing Library, 41-17 Main Street in Flushing, Queens as part of the 2006 Queens Concert Series.

This concert, which is free and open to the public, will feature colonial, contemporary and folk music of Latin America, showing the extraordinary richness and diversity of musical expression in the Americas, and will include music by William Billings, Manuel Ponce, Gunhild Glass, Rodolfo Halffter, Carlos Guastavino and many others.

For more information, call 718-661-1200.

This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a Regrant Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Queens Council on the Arts.

These programs are supported, in part, by Public Funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Meet the Composers JPMorgan Chase Regrant Program for Small Ensembles, Colgate-Palmolive Co., and other generous contributions by friends of the Americas Vocal Ensemble.

The Americas Vocal Ensemble was founded by its Director Nelly Vuksic as a professional chamber group whose mission is to foster understanding among the people of the Americas and to preserve the musical and cultural richness of the diverse countries of North and South America. It brings to its audiences a most enjoyable and rarely performed repertory which encompasses the whole range of the music of the Americas, from the colonial period to contemporary times, through concerts, educational programs and recordings.

The AVE made its debut at New York's Americas Society in 1982, and has performed throughout the northeast U.S. and South America. They present unique and innovative programs and have performed premieres of more than 100 contemporary works, including compositions by leading North and South American composers. AVE has been heard on National Public Radio, many New York stations and the Voice of America. They have also appeared on New York Public Television and the Hispanic Information and Telecommunications TV Network. Their latest CD "Canticas y Madrigales" has been recorded for 4Tay Records, and is available at http://www.classicalcds.net. They have also recorded for CBS, Opus 1, Premiere and North/South Consonance. Visit their webpage at http://www.americasvocalensemble.org/.

For more information about the Americas Vocal Ensemble, please contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net.

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