Knight sings for locals

Angela Knight is a heralded opera singer who sings as a soprano with the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center. Though she performs several times a year with the opera; once a year she puts together a local holiday production to benefit local members of our community who are in need.

Knight incorporated Angela Knight Ministries, a nonprofit organization that sends proceeds from performances to charitable causes.

This year’s production, “Winter Wonderland,” will be performed Dec. 3 at Battlefield High School. The concert will benefit two local families, struggling with illnesses, that “need to know they are loved by the community,” she explained.

Joe Murphy recently suffered a paralyzing stroke at 43 is working toward recovery. His family is one of the two to benefit from the concert. Knight described Murphy as a “wonderful father and local businessman” who is unable to work due to his condition.

The other beneficiary is the Lucas Clark Foundation, which is a new nonprofit foundation to help raise funds and awareness to find a cure for spinal muscular atrophy. Lucas Clark was born with the condition in 2008. Friends and family started the foundation in an effort to raise funds for the cause.

Knight lives in Haymarket and felt it in her “heart to use God’s gift to reach out to others.” She uses her gift to “connect people to the Lord through music.”
She began putting together local productions about four years ago to bring quality professional performances to the community and to benefit those in need while doing so. Her first annual production benefited a children’s charity and she raised $2,000, which she sent to the organization.

The productions take months to organize, produce and market; they have grown since her offering. Many of Knight’s friends from the world of music volunteer with the productions by performing, marketing or in other ways.

Tickets for the event are $20 for adults, $17 for seniors and $10 for students. More information about the production is online: http://www.AngelaKnightMusic.com .
Tickets will be available at the door as long as supplies last. Additional donations to benefit the causes will be accepted on the evening of the performance. The performance will be held at Battlefield High School, at 15000 Graduation Dr. in Haymarket, on Dec. 3 at 7 p.m.

Read the full story on page 2 of the Nov. 25 issue of the Bull Run Observer.