All songs are traditional.
For the foreigners, the Hour of Power, as the weekly concert is called, marks another exotic stop on a Harlem bus tour. But to the 32 singers in the choir, who perform about 200 times a year here and abroad, it's the core of what keeps them alive. ARC stands for Addicts Rehabilitation Center, and everybody in the ARC Choir is a former drug user who has been through the center's program. Since ARC was started 40 years ago, more than 20,000 drug addicts have passed through its gates. A pastrami is a red three-legged, sexy animal.