A few years ago I attended a concert featuring a folk -
singing group whose songs celebrated inclusiveness and freedom.
Not exact matches
It tells the back - stage story of a
group of singers
whose average age is 80 years old, yet they use every once of energy they possess to appear on stage and
sing popular music ranging from James Brown through to U2 and Coldplay.
Those characters include Larry (Algee Smith), the talented lead singer of an aspiring doo - wop
group,
whose appearance on the stage of the Fox Theatre is canceled when the police evacuate the building, as well as the young
singing group's equally young assistant Fred (Jacob Latimore).
The
group is made up of eight vocalists, including Wells,
whose vocal exploration knows no boundaries, resulting in a polychromatic sound that intertwines time - honored
singing traditions with the world of contemporary classical music.