CSO Gospel Choir Celebrates First Decade at 2011 MOJA Festival
Event Details
The celebrated CSO Gospel Choir, Sandra S. Barnhardt Music Director, joins the 2011 MOJA Festival in celebration of the Choir’s first ten years in a program entitled Roots: A Ten Year Retrospective on Saturday, October 8, 5:00pm, at Saint Matthews Lutheran, 405 King Street, downtown Charleston.
The CSO Gospel Choir will revive its spring 2011 program–a rousing musical retrospective in association with the group’s founder Lee Pringle who produced the Choir’s first ten years of performances. Selections will span classic gospel selections including Grammy Award-winner James Cleveland’s Lord Help Me To Hold Out, along with the Choir’s uplifting version of Order My Steps in Your Words and Amazing Grace.
Lee Pringle, CSO Gospel Choir Founder President, and Roots Producer, says, “I am very excited to bring this performance which we performed to a capacity audience on Palm Sunday and Piccolo Spoleto to the MOJA Festival and share the many selections that have defined the Choir’s following over the years.” Mr. Pringle is pleased to introduce long-time Charleston choral legend Howard N. Brown, Sr. as the Choir’s new Associate Director.
Sandra S. Barnhardt, Music Director, says “I am very excited to be working with Mr. Brown who brings several decades of choral music experience to the Choir. Mr. Brown will be directing several selections during the performance. This event brings our music to such a wide audience including many of my friends traveling from the New Jersey area. MOJA is a professional highlight for me.”
ROOTS: A 10 Year Retrospective―2011 MOJA Festival
Saturday, October 8, 5pm
St. Matthews Lutheran Church, 405 King Street, Charleston
Tickets: $21 adults; $11 students
Purchase tickets online: www.mojafestival.com; (866) 811-4111; MOJA Box Office at Civic Design Center, 85 Calhoun Street or Charleston Visitor Center, 375 Meeting Street.
Tickets also at door (cash or check only) up to one hour before each performance
Date
October 8, 2011
Location
St. Matthews Lutheran Church
405 King Street Charleston, SC 29403
, SC