Columbia College presents
Ain’t I a Woman!
Core Ensemble Performance Celebrates Visionary African American Women  

Tuesday, February 13
Columbia College
7:30 p.m.
R. Wright Spears Music/Art Center Concert Hall
Admission is free and the program is open to the public
Sponsored by Columbia College


COLUMBIA, SC: On February 13, 2007, the Core Ensemble, Tahirah Whittington, cello, Hugh Hinton, piano, and Michael Parola, percussion, with actress Taylore Mahogany Scott, will perform the music theatre work Ain’t I a Woman! at Columbia College. The work is the latest in a series of multicultural and feminist performance pieces produced by the ensemble over the past ten years.
 
Ain’t I a Woman! celebrates the life and times of four powerful African American women: renowned novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, ex-slave and fiery abolitionist Sojourner Truth, exuberant folk artist Clementine Hunter, and fervent civil rights worker Fannie Lou Hamer. The musical score is drawn from the heartfelt spirituals and blues of the Deep South, the urban vitality of the Jazz Age, and contemporary concert music by African Americans. Ain’t I a Woman! is a joyful exploration of the trials and triumphs of  four passionate and accomplished women. The show tours throughout the U.S. during Black History Month and Women’s History Month.
 
About Core Ensemble
A versatile performer, Taylore Mahogany Scott has performed in film, and television, including the nationally televised PBS show African American Lives with Oprah Winfrey.  Her theatre credits include New York Classical Theatre-All’s Well that Ends Well & As You Like It; American Globe Theatre-Romeo and Juliet; Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival-MacBeth; Dallas Theatre Center-A Christmas Carol. Ms. Scott received a BS in Biomedical Science for Veterinary Medicine and Theatre Arts from Texas A&M University and an MFA in Acting/Shakespeare from Florida Atlantic University.
 
The Core Ensemble has toured in Australia, England, Russia, Ukraine, the Caribbean, and in every region of the U.S. The Core Ensemble receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the Palm Beach County Cultural Council. For more information, visit www.core-ensemble.cc.