Concert to feature spirituals and more

First Reformed Church, 40 E. Orange St., Lancaster, will host a concert on First Friday, Feb. 2, at 8 p.m. Doors will open at 7:30 p.m.

The 30-minute performance will feature mezzo-soprano Amy Yovanovich, executive director of the State Street Academy of Music in Harrisburg. She will present spirituals and songs celebrating Black History Month, February. Selections will include "Give Me Jesus" and "My Lord, What a Morning," arranged by Mark Hayes, as well as "Deep River," arranged by Moses Hogan, and "Steal Away," arranged by Howard Helvey. Larry Hershey will provide piano accompaniment.

Yovanovich started singing as a child. After graduating from Elizabethtown Area High School in 1989, she served as the lead soloist at St. James Episcopal Church in Lancaster. Amy studied voice and opera at the Pennsylvania Academy of Music in Lancaster and with John Darrenkamp, and she currently studies with Kyle C. Engler of Baltimore. She has demonstrated her skills in operas, oratorios and more, performing with the Pennsylvania Academy of Music Opera Theatre Workshop, opera companies in Lancaster and Harrisburg, the Reading Pops Orchestra and the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra. Yovanovich has won various awards and competitions.

Admission is free. For more information, contact the church office at 717-397-5149.

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