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[PAST EVENT] The Ewell Concert Series 2021-2022 Season presents Rev. Cora Harvey Armstrong and The Harvey Family!
Location
Williamsburg Regional LibraryAccess & Features
- Open to the public
The Ewell Concert Series 2021-2022 Season presents Rev. Cora Harvey Armstrong and The Harvey Family!
Cora Harvey Armstrong is a native of the Newtown District of King and Queen County, Virginia. She attended and graduated from the public schools of King and Queen County and also attend Virginia State University where she directed the Virginia State Gospel Choir.
Cora is a singer, songwriter and recording artist and has been playing the piano for more than 60 years. She has portrayed gospel great Mahalia Jackson and she and her sisters, Clara Jackson and Rev. Virginia Young, have portrayed themselves at the Swift Creek Mill Theatre, Colonial Heights, in a play written about their lives as they sang with their mother, the late Eva Harvey, entitled “Those Harvey Girls.” Cora, her sisters and nieces, Clarissa Jackson, Kimberly Young and Ruth Young, now sing together as “The Harvey Family” and have been blessed to perform at many folk festivals and shows across the country and honored to minister in numerous churches near and far.
This event is open to the public and is free.
Masks are required.
Contact
[[vxhaskins, Victor Haskins]]