The John & Hazel Currie Memorial Concert is a free community event which is given as a gift thanks to the generosity of the endowment family. Each year, we gather talented musicians and artists together and host them in our beautiful historic sanctuary or in our local park. Admission for this event is always free. 

2024 Concert features: 

Hope UMC Gospel Choir

Friday, May 17th

7pm

Main Sanctuary (315 W. Larkin Street)

 

Meet the Director: Pianist, singer, composer and director Alvin Waddles has delighted audiences in over a dozen countries with his dazzling technique, fluid versatility and unique musical style. A native of Detroit and a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and the University of Michigan School of Music, Mr. Waddles is equally at home in the worlds of classical piano, opera, theater, jazz, and gospel. He has performed at the Detroit International Jazz Festival and was named the 2022 Legacy Artist by the Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation. He has appeared as piano soloist with the Detroit, Rochester and Michigan Opera Theater Orchestras, is the featured piano soloist in annual productions of “Too Hot to Handel” in Detroit and Chicago and can frequently be heard performing his own Fats Waller Revue. He has performed across the country as musical director/pianist for Cook, Dixon and Young (formerly of the Three Mo’ Tenors) and has been blessed to work with some of the world’s finest musicians including Robert Shaw, Margaret Hillis, Brazeal Dennard, Minister Thomas Whitfield, Aretha Franklin, Anita Baker, George Shirley, Marcus Belgrave, Jack Jones, Stephanie Mills and Tramaine Hawkins. He has served as Minister of Music at Hope United Methodist Church in Southfield, MI since 1995.

 

Coming in 2025…KINGS BRASS! (stay connected for more information)