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ISU's Ebony Majestic Choir |
Two of the area’s gospel choirs will perform in the 14th Gospel Explosion on Saturday, November 21 in Forum I at the University of Southern Indiana. The show is part of Religious Awareness Month on the THREADS (Teaching Human Respect and Encouraging Action Diversity Series) November calendar. THREADS is a campus-wide diversity initiative of the Multicultural Center to encourage intentional diversity programming throughout the USI community through a coordinated diversity calendar.
The 2009 Gospel Explosion features the Indiana State University's Gospel Ensemble: Ebony Majestic Choir as the event's headliner. Additional groups performing included the Area Youth Choir, and Designed by Grace--the USI gospel choir.
ISU's Ebony Majestic Choir
Performing actively during the fall and spring semester of each academic year, the 50 plus dedicated and disciplined young men and women who represent most of the major cities of the Midwest Region, are under the direction of Mr. Nathaniel Truedell, Artist-in-Residence of the African American Cultural Center. The staff of the African American Cultural Center are Charles Brown, Director, Julia Bruce, Administrative Assistant and Tommy Reed, Graduate Assistant.
Notable performances by the choir include a joint concert with the Famed Fisk University Concert Choir and Jubilee Singers held in the Chapel at the University in Nashville, and the Governor's Prayer Breakfast held at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. Other notable concerts have been rendered in Memphis, TN, Cincinnati, OH, Fayetteville and Pine Bluff in Arkansas and even at Nassau located in the Bahamas. In the Spring of 1998 and 1999, the Ebony Majestic Choir Concert tour was held in Washington, DC.
Designed by Grace, the gospel choir at the University of Southern Indiana, is a cooperative program of the Multicultural Center and the College of Liberal Arts. The choir performs a variety of music including spirituals and hymns. Members of Designed by Grace challenge audiences to face diversity as a new ascertainable goal.
The 90-minute performance was free and open to the public.
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