“Let Freedom Ring” The Coretta Scott King Story to be performed at the Washington Twp. Public Library

“Let Freedom Ring” The Coretta Scott King Story to be performed at the Washington Twp. Public Library, 37 E. Springtown Rd, Long Valley, NJ on Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 2:00 p.m.

Actress/Singer, Carmen Artis brings the historic legacy of the legendary Coretta Scoot King to life through the concept of a "Freedom Concert' which Ms. King Performed all over the United States and Europe.  She chronicles the Civil Rights Struggle through music and narrative.  From Ms. King's humble upbringing in rural Alabama and partnership with Martin Luther King Jr., this living biography will fascinate, inform and entertain all.

Call the Library at 908-876-3596 or go to www.wtpl.org to sign up for this program.

Ms. Artis studied formally at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, MD. and continued private studies with internationally renowned mezzo-soprano, Antonia Kitsopolous. Her extensive credits in opera, oratorio and musical theatre include the New Jersey State Opera, Northwest Lyric, and Scranton IV Opera, as well as with the Pittsburgh Symphony conducted by Andre Previn and Michael Tilson Thomas. She has been a repeated guest soloist with the NJ Pops and has performed Off-Broadway both at Saint Peter’s Theatre and the Westbeth Theatre Complex. Among her musical theatre performances, she has especially enjoyed playing Aldonza in Man of La Mancha. Her specialty program, Spirituals to Ragtime to Jazz, was recorded live in early May of 1997, in a tour that included the Watchung Arts Center and Morristown’s Bickford Theatre. She and her husband, John Hammel, have performed their program, “Great American Songbook”, with such jazz notables as Regan Ryzuk and Rio Clemente in their tireless efforts to promote great American composers of popular song. After her performance Ms. Artis will be answering question about Sojourner Truth.