About AGC
Healing through Harmony
Amazing Grace Chorus (AGC) is a dementia-friendly choir where elders experience joy, purpose, and connection through music. With every rehearsal and performance, AGC touches the heart and soul—bringing back memories of love, friendship, and community.
Beyond the music, AGC strengthens memory, supports brain health, and lifts the human spirit. Our chorus creates space for friendship, belonging, and joy—combating isolation and offering a warm, welcoming community.
Keepers of the Culture
AGC celebrates the wisdom and legacy of our elders through song and community. Through creative aging programs and intergenerational performances, the chorus preserves cultural heritage while supporting healthy aging and connection.
AGC is more than a choir—it’s a community rooted in love, resilience, and cultural pride.
Pictured: Shana Moses, Program Director, and Carl Clomon, Music Director of Amazing Grace Chorus
Join Us
If you are a senior singer or caregiver, please join us! We are dementia friendly and supportive to elders and caregivers in the community! All are welcome. Contact Shana Moses by email agc@walkerwest.org or by phone 763-238-4071 to add your name to the list of members.
“Aging is not lost youth, but a new stage of opportunity and strength. Life is a journey filled with unexpected miracles. Without music, life is a journey through a desert. Music brings healing, power, and joy.”
Support AGC
If you want to help support Amazing Grace Chorus, please contact shana@walkerwest.org. We are proudly supported by The Minnesota Humanities Center and Walker West Music Academy.
AGC’s musical focus is primarily well-known and well-loved songs endemic to African-American culture and experience. This chorus highlights the robust, rich, and deeply-rooted traditions of Black people and the connection to the elders and olders of our community.
We Need Your Support
Amazing Grace Chorus connects elders of the community through creative healthy aging programming. Upholding these initiatives requires great financial support that derives from the generous contributions of conscientious donors like you.
News And Events
- May 31, 2025
The Amazing Grace Chorus presented their Spring Concert on May 31, 2025, at Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Minneapolis. This year’s theme, Amazing Love Beyond Words, celebrated the healing power of music and the resilience of our community.
Stay tuned for upcoming events and performances!
- March 31, 2025
Amazing Grace Chorus of Walker|West is part of the national conversation on wellness and caregiving.
Watch the trailer for Caregiving, a new film from PBS WellBeings
- September 19, 2023
CNN journalists spotlight the unsung people who inspire them. Shana Moses and Amazing Grace Chorus of Walker|West are featured September 16 and 19, 2023
- October 22, 2022
AGS is featured in “Exploring Heathy Aging” with Drs. Jon Hallberg and Tseganesh Selameab through the 4M’s framework of Mobility, Mentation, Medication and What Matters to older adults.
- November 28, 2021
Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel.
– Jessica Peresta
- March 27, 2023
- March 30, 2023
Amazing Grace Chorus received an award for Innovations in Alzheimer’s Caregiving from the Family Caregiver Alliance at the awards reception on March 28th, 2023, as part of the American Society on Aging “On Aging” Conference in Atlanta.
