Born Free: Soul Sounds sings for our voiceless friends
View(s):All-female ensemble Soul Sounds will stage their next concert “Born Free” on March 17 at the Lionel Wendt Theatre. Inspired by the famous movie, the concert is in aid of the Animal Protection Trust, a non-profit making concern that endeavours to foster humane treatment of all animals in Sri Lanka.
Soul Sounds as a choir has always been about challenging itself to engage its audiences in innovative ways and hence has chosen to support the cause and thematically link its concert. “The thought of animals and to challenge ourselves with a new repertoire has been on our minds since we participated at the Ihlombe! South African Music Festival last year and the girls toured the country. I guess this is the result,” said Soundarie David-Rodrigo, Music Director of Soul Sounds.
The concert will feature pop to African fusion chants taken from songs and movies linked with animals contributing to the message of caring for mother earth and its living beings that do not have a voice. All of this in a choral-style with the choir’s own arrangements.
The Animal Protection Trust has been engaged in the larger domain of initiatives to combat illegal transportation and slaughter of cattle and buffaloes islandwide, ritual animal sacrifice, promotion of humane methods of animal slaughter, etc while also taking initiatives for rehabilitation and re-homing of abandoned puppies and kittens, cats and dogs and the eradication of rabies in Sri Lanka by 2017, etc.
The concert is sponsored by Litro Gas and Soul Sounds’ exclusive sponsors Fairway Holdings and Dimo. Wijeya Newspapers are the media sponsors. Tickets are available at the Lionel Wendt Theatre Box Office from 9.30 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.