(Left to right): Jamal Edegu, Janika Brown, Rayshawn Ertha, Ambar Guerrero, Dizzy Jones, and Boston All Stars director Evelyn Dougherty at their Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Jan. 19.

Boston All Stars kicked off 2009 with a Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration where young people wrote letters to both Dr. King and President Obama about their dreams for themselves, their community, and the world and performed them to an enthusiastic audience at the Freedom House in Dorchester. 

The Boston All Stars just started its fifth talent show cycle; the next audition is Saturday, May l6th and the talent show will be Saturday, May 30th at the Freedom House in Dorchester.  We’ve already signed up 50 acts and had our first outreach performance at the Massachusetts College of Art at a youth conference called “Art is Action”.  Two hundred youth from Boston public schools participated in the conference,  and Boston All Stars had a table staffed by four volunteers, who signed up 30 acts and l0 youth volunteers.   We met teachers who invited us to come into their school and sign up performers as well.  Anyone interested in volunteering or performing with the Boston All Stars, please call 617-524-8111.