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CoroAllegro guest soloist Joyce Tannian with friends in Kenya. Tannian is co-founder and executive director of Water is Life Kenya (WILK), a Newark-based nonprofit focused on getting water access for the indigenous and drought-stricken Maasai people. Provided by CoroAllegro.

CoroAllegro Offers a Musical Journey Around the World with Aim to Bring Us Together

It’s a Small World, the saying goes — so small, in fact, that CoroAllegro hopes to take you “Around the World in Eighty Minutes” at its choral concert later this week. Originally published on Delaware Online.

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In Maasailand, the indigenous population has been evicted from their lands. Picture © Beckwith & Fisher.

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