Terrell Fields and the Community Voices of Kinston will host a conference this weekend to broaden the worship experience of any and all choirs, choir directors, musicians and lay members who want to participate.
Workshops all day Saturday at St. James AME Church will feature presenters from three area churches. Darrell Raynor, minister of music at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in Goldsboro, will present Hymns of the Church from 10:15 to 11:30 a.m.; Jermaine Smith, minister of music at First Baptist Church in Kannapolis, will present Musicians Clinic from 11:40 a.m. to 12:40 p.m.; and Danté Johnson, choir director at Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church in Goldsboro, will present Choir Decorum and Discipline from 12:45 to 2 p.m.
At 5 p.m. Sunday, at First Missionary Baptist Church, a musical explosion will incorporate a power house of sound, highlighting the Salvation and Deliverance Church Choir of Tarboro. The program also will include Q.L. Burrell and Chosen of Weldon; Bishop Jesse Jones and Rebirth of Maury; and Willie Grant, psalmist, of New Bern.
The Salvation and Deliverance Choir is full of teens and adults of all ages who use choreography and complex harmonies to their advantage. Based in Tarboro, they tour all over the United States to share the gospel message and touch as many lives and hearts as they can.
The choir has won numerous awards, including the 2011 Verizon Wireless How Sweet the Sound national winners, America’s Best Church Choir and an invitation to perform at the Stellar Awards and the Super Bowl Gospel Celebration.
Other awards have included the Quaker Oats Voices of Tomorrow Youth Gospel Choir Competition in 1996, the Pathmark Gospel Choir Competition in 2004, the national champion of the McDonald’s Gospelfest in 2004, and first place in UPN’s Most Soulful Gospel Sound.
Under the production of Cedric Thompson and David Allen, the choir has released its recording debut, “More Than Conquerors.” It also performs its live ministry every Sunday during the 11:30 a.m. worship service at the church, 1308 W. Wilson St., Tarboro.
All the Saturday conferences and the Sunday service are free and open the public. For more information, call Terrell Fields at 704-267-1768.
WOW Summer Musical 2013
Saturday and Sunday
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., worship workshops, St. James AME Church, 402 E. Shine St.
Sunday: 5 p.m., musical program, First Missionary Baptist Church, 801 E. Gordon St.
Free admission to all
Open to public
Info: 704-267-1768
