Foreigner invited Long Island high school choir to perform at Westbury concert
The select choir at Our Lady of Mercy Academy all-girls high school in Syosset will perform with Foreigner at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury on Feb. 11. Credit: Bruce Gilbert
The Our Lady of Mercy Academy all-girls high school select choir performed with Foreigner at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury on Feb. 11. It’s the second year in a row the choir joined the rock band for its classic 1984 hit, “I Want to Know What Love Is.”
Foreigner invites a local group onstage to join the band at every concert in North America. The band will donate $500 to the Syosset Catholic school’s choir, and choir members will sell Foreigner CDs at the concert to raise money for Foreigner’s charity partner, the Grammy Foundation.
Other past Long Island honorees have included performers from Uniondale High School and Holy Trinity Diocesan High in Hicksville.
Beth Whitehouse writes about families, parenting and great things to do with the kids on Long Island. She’s been a Newsday editor and shared a 1997 Newsday staff Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the crash of TWA Flight 800.
