MSU Black Voices welcomes alums, guest choirs for 'Gospel Explosion'
Contact: Sasha Steinberg
Photo by: Submitted/Alexandria Wilson
STARKVILLE, Miss.--Mississippi State's Black Voices Gospel Choir will present a Saturday [April 25] concert at historic Lee Hall.
Titled "Gospel Explosion," the 4 p.m. Bettersworth Auditorium program will feature current and alumni members of the university student group that recently took major honors in national competition.
Among featured selections will be gospel artist and songwriter Dexter Walker's rendition of "Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho."
Visiting choirs from Alcorn State University and Coahoma Community College also are scheduled to perform during the afternoon.
Admission is $5, with tickets available for purchase at the door or at Peter's Rock Temple Church of God in Christ, and Beth-el Missionary Baptist, Second Baptist Missionary and Ebenezer Baptist churches, all in Starkville.
Doors open at 2:30 p.m. The concert will be preceded by a "praise and worship warm-up" to help audience members get into the gospel spirit. MSU music graduate Jemero J. Carter, now CCC's assistant choir director, will lead the Kingdomology Praise Team for this portion of the program.
Timothy Fair, assistant director of MSU's Richard Holmes Cultural Diversity Center, will serve as emcee.
In addition to receiving third-place and crowd favorite honors at last month's National College Choir Explosion in Louisville, Kentucky, the MSU group brought home $6,000 in cash prizes.
"MSU Black Voices shares a vision of exalting, reverencing and praise through song and dance, and this concert gives everyone within and surrounding the Golden Triangle region an opportunity to come witness a joyous occasion," said senior Justin M. Johnson of Jackson, an industrial engineering major and the group's 2014-15 president.
Founded Feb. 1, 1972, Black Voices of MSU is an outreach ministry established to serve as "the primary arena of souls to minister to the campus." For more, visit blackvoices.org.msstate.edu, bit.ly/BlackVoicesMSUFB and instagram.com/blackvoices_msu/.
For additional concert information, contact Terriante Garner at 601-996-0049 or tg499@msstate.edu.
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