Avery Sommers to Headline Generation Hope’s Gospel Brunch Concert

By Shanna St John

BOCA RATON—Nationally known and local favorite actress and singer Avery Sommers will headline at the inaugural Generation Hope Gospel Brunch, a Nat King Cole Generation Hope Inc. concert benefit to raise funds for music education.

The event will be Sunday, Aug. 25 from 1to 4 p.m. at Jazziz Nightlife in Mizner Park in Boca Raton. The event includes a new brunch menu by host Jazziz Nightlife and performances by Sommers. Accompanying Somers will be Tony Siders and the Palm Beach Super Choir as well as the Frontline Christian Center Youth Choir “No Limits” led by Tony LeBron, Gospel Music Channel’s 2009 Gospel Dream winner.

Sommers is well known to local audiences having performed at the Caldwell Theatre, Burt Reynolds Theatre, Cuillo Centre and Florida Stage. She also starred on Broadway in Ain’t Misbehavin replacing Nell Carter and Show Boat as Queenie.  A strong supporter of local youth, Avery wrote, directed, staged and choreographed This Little Light of Mine and is very proud of her cast of wonderful young performers from The Palm Beach County School System.

“I have always been a community minded person,” Sommers said. “I love doing projects that involve local effort by local people. It makes everyone feel good.”

Sponsored by Pride Global Management, the event promises to celebrate the joy and inspiration that music brings to your soul while raising awareness and funds to support the Nat King Cole Generation Hope mission to provide music education to children with the greatest need and fewest resources.

“My passion is to help others reach their very best place of success in life and what better way than to make a difference in the life of a child by providing them quality music education,” says Elton Pride of Pride Global Management. “That’s why we support Nat King Cole Generation Hope’s mission to Keep Music Alive.”

Attendees are encouraged to bring a new or gently used brass, woodwind, percussion or string instrument, which will be repurposed and distributed to children who are unable to buy their own.

The Nat King Cole Generation Hope, Inc. Musical Instrument Program has been active since 2008 and has benefited thousands of children in South Florida. Instruments donated at this year’s inaugural Gospel Brunch will benefit the Faith and Love in Action Orphanage in Jacmel, Haiti. Instruments most in need include clarinets, flutes, trumpets, trombones, tubas, saxophones, cymbals and a guitar bass.

Advance tickets are $65 and can be purchased online at natkingcolegenhope.org or by calling 561-213-8209. Event day tickets are $75 and will be available at the door on event day at 12 noon.

Guests will be seated as they arrive on event day. Complimentary parking is available in Mizner Park garages. Generation Hope Gospel Brunch is part of Boca Chamber Festival Days, a series of fun-filled events held at different locations during the month of August, and is facilitated by the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce.