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JLo’s Protégé Montana Tucker Headlines

Concert-4-Kindness TM

To amplify kindness in South Florida and beyond, to Martin Luther King Jr. Jones is a Bach International • Florida Singing Sons and Chorale Soleil (a new
award-winning singer-songwriter, dancer, actress and performing, recording artist and educator and Gateways ensemble) joining forces vocally under the direction of
mega social influencer Montana Tucker, along with an Brass Collective performer and arranger. musical director Dan Bates, as arts-aware youth inspired
inclusive and affirming roster of international and local • BriGuel, the internationally renowned bilingual to become leaders of tomorrow to perform three crowd
talent, delivered a resonating We are the World-style, artistic duo from Spain and New York, who are on a mission pleasers: Over the Rainbow/What a Beautiful World medley;
multigenerational community moment on Sunday, Jan. 22, to “harmonize humanity” one note, one film at a time, We are the World, and Music Can Change the World.
at the Carole and Barry Kaye Performing Arts Auditorium engaging the audience with their own brand of socially • Students from UBK/Palmview Elementary School
at Florida Atlantic University. impactful music and clips from their award-winning films of the Arts and their mentors nurtured by Nat King
Tucker was joined on stage by more than 125 concert and videos as powerful backdrops, included their original Cole Generation Hope performing instrumentals and
collaborators – hailing from diverse backgrounds, life music Life is a Lesson. Joined by their collaborator Andres vocals of Lean on Me.
experiences and arts disciplines – for the engaging, Gonzalez of the Holistic Life Foundation, as a trio they • Ruth and Norman Rales Jewish Family Services/
interactive multi-arts, intergenerational Concert-4-Kindness performed their original The Difference. Weissman Delray Community Center singer/pianists
presented by Marilyn and Jay Weinberg. The concert was • College of Arts and Letters’ Italian Studies Group duo Violet Darling and Wally Childs performing You’ve
hosted by FAU’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts from the Department of Languages, Linguistics and Got a Friend.
and Letters, and conceived, organized, and produced Comparative Literature, performing Stand by Me in Italian
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by longtime FAU supporters and Concert-4-Kindness featuring Italian artist, singer and songwriter Mattia Colore. JLo’s Protégé Montana Tucker on page 15
Cochairs and Vision Sponsor Bonnie and Jon Kaye of Kaye
Communications PR & Marketing (KCOM-PR).
Headliner and emcee Montana Tucker – who has
opened for such icons as Jennifer Lopez, Flo Rida, Ciara,
and Pitbull – and all Concert-4-Kindness performers,
storytellers, presenters, and KCOM-PR donated their
time, talent, insights and community outreach to inspire
collective empathy, compassion, acceptance, kindness,
unity and light. Intermingled with performances were FEBRUARY 23-26
Kindness cameo videos from Montana’s friends in the
entertainment industry, including So Help Me Todd and
Pitch Perfect star Skylar Astin, former NFL linebacker
and Fox Sports 1 Analyst Emanuel Acho, 90 Day Fiancé WHERE GRIT
celebrity Loren Brovarnik, the “Dancing Weatherman”
Nick Kosir, and serial entrepreneur, strategic investor
and philanthropist Ari Ackerman. MEETS GREEN

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(From left): BriGuel, the internationally renowned bilingual Palm Beach Gardens
artistic duo from Spain and New York who is on a mission for 72 holes of the
to “harmonize humanity,” engaged the audience with their SEPP STRAKA fiercest competition
own brand of socially impactful music. 2022 CHAMPION
on the PGA TOUR. It’s
Those who “stepped up and out” on the stage for the called The Honda
entertaining, interactive and meaningful experience included: Classic for a reason:
• Headliner Montana Tucker, along with her because the same
professional dancers, lighting up the stage with a challenging spirit that
riveting performance of her popular, high-energy original defines Honda will drive
song Be Myself, that was written by Tucker for her music one competitor above all
video to inspire young people to respect their own and
others’ inclusion and diversity. the rest. It’s all happening at
• 8-year-old pianist Robert Zhang Jr. from Calusa the PGA National Resort, on
Elementary School in Boca Raton, mesmerizing the a course fittingly known as
audience with Love Will See Us Through. “The Champion.” Get your
• Boca Dance Studio, under the direction of studio ticket to history at
choreographer Carly Sargent, opening the concert with TheHondaClassic.com.
more than 30 elementary, middle and high school dance
students performing to Tucker’s I’m Not Alone music
video (known as “the song that saves lives”).
• FAU Assistant Professor of Trumpet and Artistic
Director of Jazz and Chamber Ensembles Courtney
Jones, Ph.D., with members of the FAU Jazz Orchestra
performing Prayer for Peace by Kenny Burrell in a tribute