Soul Sounds to perform at Mount Lavinia Hotel on Thanksgiving Day

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Reap the benefits of a year long hard work and struggle by celebrating Thanksgiving Day in full swing at Mount Lavinia Hotel, on 24 November. Reward yourself with an enthralling musical evening along with Sri Lanka’s premier female ensemble ‘Soul Sounds’ who will mesmerise the audience with their rendition of gospel music, when MLH once again celebrate Thanksgiving Day on 24 November at the Empire Ballroom. The highlight of the evening would be the presence of Professor Mark Wilson, Chorus Director University of California Berkeley Gospel Chorus

Prof Wilson, has conducted many choirs in the USA, and is talented not only in directing them, but is also a singer and a pianist.

The music will cover all genres of gospel music, and what is special in them is that it will be an introduction to new styles of gospel music for the first time in Sri Lanka.

The evening is bound to be uplifting and inspirational for the audience.

He learned to play gospel piano and organ under African American gospel musicians, like Sharon Hogg, Rev. Elzie Ware and Rev. John McBride of the Northern California Gospel Music Workshop of America, was further mentored by David Morales, Artistic Director of Cantare Con Vivo, who encouraged him to take vocal training with Alice Taylor of the Oakland Opera Company. As an undergraduate at Howard University, he participated in the University Concert Choir, Choir, and Collegium Ensemble.

MLH, the hotel that values traditions, will once again celebrate this event with their very own chef Indika.

Indika’s Thanksgiving menu reflects his background as well as the culinary focus of his forte of cooking and indeed his influence from the US. He invites diners to experience the vertigo of consuming a reinvented version of Latin and contemporary American food while enjoying a cosmopolitan technique of cooking structure.

Be at the MLH on 24 November at the Empire Ballroom at 7.30 p.m. and be apart of this iconic traditional event. The dinner and show is priced at Rs 3500.

The choir will enchant your evening while you partake in the Thanksgiving Dinner, prepared by Chef Indika.

With meticulous planning and attention to detail, chef Indika will promise that Thanksgiving celebrations at MLH this year will make you feel like its Thanksgiving back in the USA!

For more information please call 27112711, extension 430