NIAGARA FALLS – The next 10 days will be eventful for conductor Brainerd Blyden-Taylor: He’ll start with Niagara and finish with Obama.

First up, the world-renowned artistic director of the Nathaniel Dett Chorale is in town Saturday to participate in The Gospel Train Workshop at St. Andrew’s United Church on Morrison Street, hosted by Niagara chamber choir Choralis Camerata.

Then, he’s off to Washington for festivities surrounding the U. S. presidential inauguration. On Jan. 19, the night before Barack Obama is sworn in, the Nathaniel Dett Chorale will perform at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian on Martin Luther King Day.

On Inauguration Day, the group will perform at the Canadian Embassy on Pennsylvania Avenue.

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