Bard College at Simon's Rock: the Early College

Second Annual Gospel Concert

Saturday, February 4, 2017

Daniel Arts Center - McConnell Theater


To kick-off Black History Month, Simon’s Rock will host its Second Annual Gospel concert. The program will feature a range of traditional and contemporary gospel music by the Praise Ensemble and Ivey Squared of the Macedonia Baptist Church in Albany, New York; the Mount Pleasant Liturgical Dancers of the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Albany; and the Shiloh Youth Choir of the Shiloh Baptist Church in Hudson, New York.

Special Performances

Rufus Jones, Co-Founder and President of the James Weldon Johnson Foundation, will lead the audience in a rendition of Johnson’s Lift Every Voice and Sing, also known as the Black National Anthem.
 
Arielle King, a Simon’s Rock junior and the impetus behind the annual event, will perform as both a soloist and a member of her church choir, Macedonia Baptist Church Praise Ensemble.

This concert is free and open to the public.