Contact: Sasha Steinberg
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s Black Voices Gospel Choir will present a Saturday [Nov. 21] concert at Colvard Student Union’s Bill R. Foster Ballroom.
Free to all, the 5 p.m. program will feature songs including “Greatness” by Darrel Pettis, “At All Times” by Andrew Knox and New Change, and “Blessed Assurance” by Sean Tillery and Changed.
The Black Voices dance ministry will accompany the choir on “Great is the Day” by Kevin Terry and Predestined.
Emcees for the evening program are Pastors Dedrick and Deona Benson of University of Life Ministry in Oxford.
Gospel Billboard chart-topping recording artist Vincent Tharpe and Kenosis from Memphis, Tennessee, also will perform during the concert.
Doors open at 4:30 p.m.
Donations will be accepted, with 10 percent of proceeds benefitting the MSU student relief fund.
In addition to receiving third-place and crowd favorite honors at the 2015 National College Choir Explosion in Louisville, Kentucky, the MSU group brought home $6,000 in cash prizes.
Founded in February 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, the organization’s 2015-16 president, at 601-996-0049 or tg499@msstate.edu.
MSU is Mississippi’s leading university, available online at www.msstate.edu.