A couple days shy of All Saints Day and Día de los Muertos, Bert made sure he was in Brooklyn to hear his dearest Ummi Modeste‘s last performance as a member of the choir at St. P’s, a church where three generations of the Modeste family had worshipped and helped steward the organization. Her granddad was the treasurer for decades and her aunt was leader of the vestry. Ummi, to hear her tell it, actually got kicked out as a teen because her mouth was too reckless in Confirmation class!
ALL SAINTS GOSPEL CHOIR
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