Homeschool students Grade 8 adn above are invited to join this event
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PRESS RELEASE.....FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The PLATTSBURGH STATE GOSPEL CHOIR, FERMATA NOWHERE from Stafford Middle School, as well as the Inaugural ADIRONDACK HIGH SCHOOL GOSPEL HONORS FESTIVAL CHOIR will all take the stage for GOSPELFEST 2019 on SATURDAY, APRIL 27th from 6:00p.m.-8:00p.m. on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus in Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall, 55 Beekman Street, Plattsburgh, New York.
The concert features 60 High School students from across the Adirondacks who will come together for two days to learn and perform a concert of gospel music. The AHSGHFC will perform 8 compositions/orchestral arrangements all supported by a professional Adirondack Chamber Orchestra under the artistic leadership of Jennifer Moore of the Willsboro Central School district. The concert will feature A Cappella, Concert Spirituals, Contemporary Gospel, Traditional Gospel, and Inspirational Ballads. Stan Spottswood of Silver Spring, Maryland is the invited clinician for the festival. Stan a professional songwriter, composer, arranger and jazz pianist has directed numerous choral music festivals in the US and abroad. As a composer and director, his works have been performed at the Gospel Music Workshop of America, the Ithaca High School Gospel Festival, Carnegie Hall and with the National Symphony Orchestra of the Czech Republic.
The six Adirondack high schools that are participating are AuSable Valley, Crown Point, Keene Valley, Peru, Saranac, Willsboro as well as Ithaca College High School Gospel Choir Festival Alumni. The program host will be nominated Composer and Pianist, Dr. Adrian Carr of ACMastering.
There is still time for Adirondack high school choral singers, schools and Ithaca College High School Gospel Choir Festival Alumni to register and participate in the 2-day clinic and concert. Please contact Jennifer Moore (jmoore@willsborocsd.org) no later than April 15th if interested. This unique festival promises to provide both students and high school chorus teachers with the history, evolution, and impact of gospel music on the human experience. Students will take away from this clinic an enhanced level of sophistication about gospel music styles and will be taught the colors and blends of gospel music and its musical expressions using elements of phrasing, timbre, dynamics, emotions, tempo, and instrumentation.
This event is open to the public and is co-sponsored in part by the Lake Champlain Mass Choir, SUNY Plattsburgh Department of Music, Plattsburgh State Gospel Choir and the SUNY Plattsburgh Student Association. To learn more, contact the Plattsburgh State Gospel Choir Office at 518-564-2704 orgospelchoir@plattsburgh.edu, or visit the website at
www.plattsburghstategospelchoir.org or find us on Facebook.
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...................TICKET PRICING AND AVAILABILITY................
Student Admission.....Early Bird---$5 (March 1st to March 31st)...........Advance---$8 (April 1st to April 27)..........Door--$10......... (SUNY Plattsburgh Students; CCC Students; K-12 Students)
General Admission.... Early Bird--$12 (March 1st to March 31st) ........Advance--$15 (April 1st to April 27)......... Door--$20
........................................................................................................Age 5 & under FREE (must be willing to share a seat with adult).......................................................................................
Ticket Locations
Angell College Center Desk (SUNY Plattsburgh Campus)
Christian Supply Center (164 Prospect Ave. Plattsburgh, New York)
SUNY Plattsburgh State Gospel Choir Office (Hawkins Hall 133)
This project is made possible with the funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts
with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Adirondack Lakes.
Plattsburgh State Gospel Choir
Office of the Gospel Choir - 133 Hawkins Hall
State University of New York College at Plattsburgh
101 Broad Street, Plattsburgh NY 12901-2681
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