For the sec­ond year in a row, big names are com­ing out in sup­port of the dy­nam­ic Brook­lyn based Afro-Caribbean dance com­pa­ny, Some­thing Pos­i­tive, for a spec­tac­u­lar one-night per­for­mance ti­tled An­ces­tral Chant.The show will be held on June 4 at 8 pm, at Kum­ble The­ater for the Per­form­ing Arts at the Long Is­land Uni­ver­si­ty Brook­lyn cam­pus.The con­cert, which kicks off Caribbean Her­itage month, will be pre­ced­ed by the gala ben­e­fit par­ty, Cock­tails & Con­ver­sa­tions at the Uni­ver­si­ty's Reg­gio Caf&ea­cute; at 6 pm.The event will be host­ed by Ca­lyp­so King of The World, The Mighty Spar­row; Miss Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­verse 2003, Faye Al­i­bo­cus; ac­claimed come­di­enne and ac­tress, Hazelle Good­man; and Alvin Ai­ley dancer and as­so­ciate pro­duc­er of Dis­ney's the Li­on King on Broad­way, Aubrey Lynch II.

In ad­di­tion to the hosts, the evening will fea­ture a read­ing and book sign­ing of The Dance Claimed Me-A Bi­og­ra­phy of Pearl Primus by Peg­gy and Mur­ray Schwartz.En­ter­tain­ment will be pro­vid­ed by record­ing artist, Kevon Carter, along with mu­sic mixed by DJ Kei­th. An­ces­tral Chant will cel­e­brate the lives and artis­tic lega­cies of three icon­ic stal­warts of African Amer­i­can and Caribbean cul­ture; rap­so mu­sic pi­o­neer, dancer and founder of Some­thing Pos­i­tive, Cheryl By­ron; The grand­moth­er of African Amer­i­can dance, Pearl Primus; and jazz leg­end Ni­na Si­mone.The com­pa­ny will per­form Sweet Ni­na Suite, a sev­en sec­tion suite of dances cre­at­ed by Michael Man­swell, and set to the mu­sic of Ni­na Si­mone, Dr Pearl Primus' Hard Time Blues, and Cheryl By­ron's riv­et­ing An­ces­tral Chant.This is the first time that all three icons and friends, will be ho­n­oured at the same time.

Some­thing Pos­i­tive is com­prised of more than 40 dancers, singers and mu­si­cians.The com­pa­ny has per­formed its orig­i­nal reper­toire at venues, in­clud­ing Lin­coln Cen­ter, Amer­i­can Mu­se­um of Nat­ur­al His­to­ry, Schom­burg Cen­ter for Re­search in Black Cul­ture, 92nd Street Y, and Brook­lyn Mu­se­um. Some­thing Pos­i­tive has the dis­tinc­tion of be­ing the on­ly dance com­pa­ny in­vit­ed to per­form for the of­fi­cial un­veil­ing of the African Bur­ial Ground Na­tion­al Mon­u­ment.The com­pa­ny has con­duct­ed per­form­ing arts and cos­tum­ing work­shops for more than 300,000 youth and com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers over the last decade.Pro­ceeds will help to fund Some­thing Pos­i­tive as they con­tin­ue to en­rich the lo­cal com­mu­ni­ty through their per­for­mances and pub­lic pro­grammes.