Vox Grata Women’s Choir to raise their voices in song and encourage the vote

Suffrage Cantata tells the great American story in song and narration of how womenacross a nation found the courage to fight for and win the right to vote more than 100years ago. As we move toward a critical national election Nov. 5, the Nashville women’schoral group Vox Grata will join members of the W. Crimm Singers and ALIAS ChamberEnsemble Oct. 27 to perform the cantata composed by Dr. Andrea Ramsey. The performance will be held at the historic Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church, one ofNashville’s earliest Black congregations, founded in the late 1800s. “We will celebrate the vote with our voices, and we will encourage Nashvillians,Tennesseans, and all Americans to make their voices heard with their votes on ElectionDay,” said Jeanette MacCallum, founder and artistic director of Vox Grata and directorof music at Nashville’s Second Presbyterian Church. “In Suffrage Cantata, Andrea Ramsey not only celebrates women winning the right tovote, but she puts to music the unique struggles that our Black sisters have faced to beable to cast their ballots.” Not far from where the women will sing is the Tennessee State Capitol, wherelegislators cast the historic vote Aug. 18, 1920 that gave women the right to vote. WithTennessee’s passage, the...