New Amsterdam Boys and Girls Choir

This year’s fund-raising Walkathon has a new destination, the Ricardo O’Gorman Garden and Center for Resources in the Humanities at 23 W. 129th Street. Our host will be the well-known poet and educator Ned O’Gorman, who has lived in Harlem since 1966. The Center is named for his late son Ricardo O’Gorman.

A drumming session, a scavenger hunt, a journaling exercise and a tour of the local cemetery were all part of the choir’s second trip to Canton, Massachusetts, at the end of March 2009.

The New Amsterdam Boys and Girls Choir begins it second year as a co-ed group this fall. Its home will again be the Renaissance School for the Arts, a middle school at 410 East 100th Street.

In the spring of 2008 the NABGC hosted the Voices of Victory Choir from Ontario, Canada.  This was the second trip led by conductor Erwin Stroobach. Several years early Mr. Stroobach had brought a boys choir from Canada and it was hosted by the NABC.