4 pm, Sunday, January 15, 2023 | Carole and Barry Kaye PERFORMING ARTS Auditorium

Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton,  Florida

Hosted by the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Presented by Marilyn & Jay Weinberg
Concert-4-Kindness Co-Chairs, Vision Sponsor & Community Connecteur^SM: Bonnie & Jon Kaye

Using her music as her message… award-winning performer, songwriter, actress, mega social media influencer and philanthropist Montana Tucker will headline a multi-arts intergenerational Concert-4-Kindness^TM for South Florida audiences. Tucker has 14 million social media followers, and has opened for icons like Jennifer Lopez (JLo), Flo Rida, Ciara and Pitbull. She and her dancers, students and community groups will perform songs, dances, instrumentals, poetry and videos, intermingled with “kindness” cameos by her friends in the arts and entertainment industry. Tucker was recently featured on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and other national media about retracing her family roots through “How To: Never Forget” a Holocaust docuseries for the TikTok Generation featured on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook and YouTube platforms to share what happens when bigotry goes unchecked. This time, she’ll light up FAU’s biggest stage with her resonating single “Be Myself” and her music videos… all produced to stand up and speak out against hate, bullying and discrimination, and advocate for better education and understanding to encourage unity and peace among her global fans, followers and beyond. Learn more here.

Concert-4-Kindness^TM Tickets $10-$20 on sale at fauevents.com | 561-297-6124

The event, which was organized and conceived by longtime FAU supporters Bonnie and Jon Kaye of Kaye Communications PR & Marketing, will also include performances by the following:

• Courtney D. Jones, DMA, Bach International Performing, Recording Artist, and Educator; Gateways Brass Collective: Performer and Arranger; Assistant Professor of Trumpet & Artistic Director of Jazz and Chamber Ensembles, FAU will perform Prayer for Peace by Kenny Burrell with members of the Florida Atlantic Jazz Orchestra, in tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
  
• BriGuel, the internationally renowned bilingual artistic duo from Spain and New York, who are on a mission to “harmonize humanity” one note, one film at a time. Brianne and Miguel will perform their own brand of socially impactful music and share clips from their award-winning films and videos viewed at film festivals and the TuneCore’s Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration. Both grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, they are raising awareness and support for Ukrainian displaced persons finding refuge at the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation in Poland. 
  
  
• Florida Singing Sons and Chorale Soleil (a new ensemble) will join forces vocally to cultivate arts-aware youth as leaders of tomorrow. Florida Singing Sons has been showcased with prestigious local companies such as Florida Grand Opera and New World Symphony and toured in the United States and major cities in Europe.
  
  
• Local students and their mentors nurtured by Nat King Cole Generation Hope will perform instrumentals. The Boca Raton-based nonprofit provides a legacy of music education, mentoring and resources for youth with the greatest need and fewest resources.                                                     

*** Program subject to change ***

 

Concert-4-Kindness^TM Tickets $10-$20 on sale at fauevents.com | 561-297-6124

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Learn more about "Expressions of Kindness" The Multi-Arts Student Showcase
** Deadline extended to Wednesday, Dec. 21 **

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Who better to change the world than the next generation? 

Who better to invest in their leadership and platforms than our generation?

As we lose the generation who beared witness to injustice, bigotry and watershed events in history, who better than their Gen-Z grandchildren
to stand up and speak out against hate, bullying and discrimination, and advocate for better education and understanding to encourage unity and peace.​
Montana Tucker is donating her appearance and platform support for this Concert-4-Kindness^TM to Boca Raton were she grew up.

All proceeds to support scholarships and programs for the future Kurt and Marilyn Wallach Holocaust & Jewish Studies building

For more information about becoming a sponsor, contact Bonnie and Jon Kaye at 561-756-3099 | kcompr_bk@outlook.com or Laurie Carney at 561-297-3606 |  lcarney@fau.edu

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Presenting Sponsor - $20,000 | Marilyn & Jay Weinberg

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

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HOst Committee

Concert-4-Kindness Co-Chairs Bonnie and Jon Kaye

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FAU PARTNERS

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Learn More About Holocaust and Jewish Studies at FAU

The Arthur and Emalie Gutterman Family Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education

Center for the Study of Values and Violence After Auschwitz

Jewish Studies      Kurt and Marilyn Wallach Holocaust and Jewish Studies Building