East Tennessee State University’s annual Gospel Festival will be held Sunday, Feb. 12, at 3:30 p.m. in the D.P. Culp University Center’s Martha Street Culp Auditorium.
This free public concert, held in conjunction with Black History Month, features the ETSU Gospel Choir and choirs from area churches.
Another free Black History Month tribute, “A History of Gospel Music,” will be presented at ETSU on Monday, Feb. 13 at 6 p.m. in the Martha Street Culp Auditorium.
Narrated with musical performances by the Mass Choir of Friendship Baptist Church of Johnson City, this history traces gospel music from its African roots to the present.
It features the music of Thomas Dorsey, James Cleveland, Edwin Hawkins and Kirk Franklin.
This Black History Month event is sponsored by ETSU’s African and African-American Studies Program.
For more information on the Gospel festival or other upcoming Black History Month events, contact the ETSU Office of Multicultural Affairs at 439-6633 or mcstaff@etsu.edu.
For questions or additional details concerning “A History of Gospel Music,” contact Dr. Dorothy Drinkard-Hawkshawe, professor of history and director of African and African-American Studies, at 439-6688 or drinkard@etsu.edu.
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