Darius Elmore Performs at Kennedy Center in Washington, DC

2017 May 15

Darius Elmore, a Performance student at Ithaca College, performed in a Mother's Day concert with the Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers on the Millennium Stage of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

The Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers are a non-profit music group whose sole mission is education, the preservation of the Negro Spiritual, and the use of its themes of sorrow, despair and hope to promote racial healing and social justice. It is named in honor of civil rights pioneer Dorothy Cotton, an Ithaca resident who worked in Dr. Martin' Luther King, Jr.'s inner circle as education director in the 1960s. In 2007 the U.S. Congress officially designated African American spirituals a "national treasure."