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MILLIGAN COLLEGE, TN (February 27, 2008) — The Milligan College Concert Choir will tour Florida, Georgia and Tennessee , performing at the following churches during their 2008 spring tour:
Saturday, March 1 Christ’s Church – Mandarin
Jacksonville, Florida
Sunday, March 2 Christ’s Church- Fleming Island
Jacksonville, Florida
Sunday, March 2 Plymouth Avenue Christian Church
Deland, Florida
Monday, March 3 Sunrise Christian Homes
Holiday, Florida
Monday, March 3 The Christian Church of Holiday
New Port Richey, Florida
Wednesday, March 5 Albany Christian Church
Albany, Georgia
Thursday, March 6 Galilee Christian Church
Jefferson , Georgia
Friday, March 7 The Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter
Atlanta, Georgia
Sunday, March 9 First Christian Church
Greeneville, Tennessee
Sunday, March 9 Grandview Christian Church
Johnson City, Tennessee
Friday, March 14 Seeger Memorial Chapel
Milligan College, Tennessee
The choir is a mixed group of 30 students from throughout the United States and Brazil. They will sing various styles of choral music, from classical to contemporary. Numerous well-known selections are included in the concert.
Many of the students in the choir are music majors or minors who plan careers in music education or in music ministry. Various other majors are also represented in the group.
The Milligan choir upholds a long tradition as an outstanding college choir. At the invitation of the President, the choir has sung at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC, and toured throughout England , with special performances in Coventry Cathedral and in the Civic Centre of the City of Birmingham.
More recently, the Milligan College Concert Choir sang at the Conference on World Evangelism-National Missionary Convention and the Tennessee State Convention of the American Choral Directors’ Association.
The Milligan Concert Choir is under the direction of John Wakefield, associate professor of music at Milligan. Wakefield is a veteran of many years as a choral conductor in Illinois, California and Ohio. He is active in the American Choral Directors Association, National Association of Teachers of Singing, the National Church Music Conference, and The Hymn Society of the United States and Canada.
Milligan alumnus Joel Buckner will serve as accompanist. Buckner, a native of Johnson City, Tenn., is the owner of A Touch of Class Piano and serves as pianist at Grandview Christian Church in Johnson City.
For more information, visit www.milligan.edu/music , or contact Rita Myers at 423.461.8723.