Get ready to be moved when Houston Arts Alliance offers up Voices of the Spirit 5 this weekend. The annual concert, which focuses on the faith music of four very different cultures, was originally conceived as a component of HAA’s Sacred Songs, Sacred Sites. “That program, which was originally done in Zilkha Hall, was so well received that we decided to bring it back with a new set of musicians every year,” said Pat Jasper, HAA’s director of folklife and traditional arts. “Two years ago, we shifted to the Asia Society. There’s an intimacy to the theater that somehow matches the intimacy of the devotional music that we present. This year, I think, we have a pretty exciting lineup.”

The show opens with the Cortez Family, siblings who began singing in their grandfather’s church, Greater Faith Missionary Baptist Church in Acres Homes, more than 20 years ago. “They’re followed immediately afterward by a young cantor who has just joined Beth Israel; [David Mutlu] has become the toast of the Jewish community,” said Jasper. “He’s going to be performing repertoire from the golden age of American Jewish music.”

“He is followed by a wonderful couple that are pretty renowned,” Jasper said of the husband-and-wife team David and Chandrakantha Courtney. “They’re institutions in the Indian community. One thing that’s exciting to me is that they’re going to be accompanied by sitar, tabla and esraj, as well as play the tanpura.”

Danza Chinelos del Estado de Guerrero and Banda Viento Morelense de los Hermanos Campos, who all hail from the same region of central Mexico, close the evening. “[The dancers] wear these amazing outfits that involve velvet floor-length robes with lots of embroidery and sequins and rickrack,” Jasper said about the costumes that portray the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe. “They dance out of devotion to her. It’s just amazing; it’s really beautiful.”

7:30 p.m. Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. Asia Society Texas Center, 1370 Southmore. For information, call 713-496-9901 or visit houstonartsalliance.com. Free.
Sat., April 25, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., April 26, 3 p.m., 2015