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Presenting the SUNY Plattsburgh Gospel Choir and featuring Minor Adjustments and Faith Tabernacle MB Church Youth Praise DancersHosted by Bill McColgan. CEO/President of Mountain Lake PBS
Sunday, Dec 7th 5:00pm to 7:15pm (Doors open at 4:30pm)
E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium (Hawkins Hall - SUNY Plattsburgh) / 47 Beekman Street, Plattsburgh, NY 12901
PRESS RELEASE:
The Plattsburgh State Gospel Choir, which is led by Dr. Dexter L. Criss and Andrea D. Ogle, is delighted to present "Soulful Christmas 2025" - The SUNY Plattsburgh Gospel Choir's unique sound is a harmonic fusion of traditional gospel, urban gospel, contemporary Christian music, all blended heavily with Caribbean and Afrocentric rhythms and spiritual overtones. The energetic musical arrangements of the 50-voice chorus will put EVERYONE into the Holiday Christmas spirit. The best dressed Downton Abbey from the audience will win a fun prize!
Some of the selections to be presented this year are Richard Smallwood's classical masterpiece "Anthem of Praise", Kevin Phillip Johnson's splendid arrangement of "Children Go Where I Send Thee", Norman Hutchins' Christmas classic, "Emmanuel", the Music City Mass Choir foot stomping version of "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" and a soulful adaptation of "Hallelujah Chorus" arranged by Quincy Jones.
This season’s concert will feature talented student soloists, featured guest and of course our amazing community members will all deliver a brilliant-soulful performance on their respective solos, duets and ensembles! Don’t miss out! This loaded 2-hour concert will also feature the choir’s Praise Dancers and Praise Team. In fact, for those who arrive early enough the Praise Team will have a preshow sing-along of some of your favorite Traditional Christmas Carols! Our two Music Educators, Alex Malsan and Jonathan Ellwanger, will play and direct those old familiar Christmas Hymns the way they were written so many years ago!
SPECIAL GUEST: Minor Adjustments and the Faith Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church Youth Praise Dancers.
SUNY PLATTSBURGH GOSPEL CHOIR:
Under the artistic leadership of Dexter L. Criss, Ph.D. (Professor of Chemistry and Music Adjunct), the choir has traveled internationally to Japan, St. Martin/Maarten, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa as well as to the Caribbean Island of Trinidad and Tobago where the choir gave a private performance for President Anthony Carmona and his staff. The choir performed at NYC's Lincoln Center in 2017 and has shared the stage with Daisy Joplin (NYC), Lyle Lovett (Burlington), Darius Brooks (Chicago), Ron Rucker (Japan) Josh Panda and with Sheila Raye-Charles to name a few. In 2019, the PSGC was the warm-up act for internationally renowned “The Kingdom Choir” who has performed for the Queen of England. We have worked with world renown choral-clinicians Dr. Raymond Wise, Stan Spottswood, Dr. Anthony Leach and John Harrison. With 20-30 performances a year, the gospel choir can be found performing on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus, churches, music festivals, workshops, weddings, memorials and community events. In March 2019, the choir traveled to Memphis/Little Rock/Clarksdale and the surrounding locations to perform in local churches and community centers. In fact, the choir performed a standing room only concert at the historic Little Rock Central High School, the battle ground location for “Brown vs Board of Education”. All the choir members, especially our students, returned from this southern tour informed, empowered and inspired.
Andrea D. Ogle, a UVM graduate in Early Childhood Special Education and SUNY Plattsburgh alum, serves as Associate Artistic Director and Choreographer. Alex Malsan, a K-12 Music Educator, serves as the choir’s Vocal Coach, Assistant Director; Jonathan Ellwanger, retired principal and K-12 Music Educator, serves as Assistant Director; Danielle Criss, Pre-K Teacher, serves as Assistant Director, Praise Dance Leader and Student Advisor. Rosinda Anthony serves as the Choir Advisor.
TICKET PRICING AND AVAILABILITY
Student Admission (College, K-12)
Advance: $8 (Nov 10th to Dec 6th) - online
Door $10
General Admission
Advance: $20 (Nov 10th to Dec 6th) - online
Door $25
Age 4 & under FREE (must be willing to share a seat with adult)
ONLINE TICKETS:
https://campusgroups.plattsburgh.edu/themus/rsvp_boot?id=388510
Contact Us:
---email: [email protected]
---Phone: (518-564-2704)
---133 Hawkins Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh
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Giltz Auditorium, ChargePoint, 47 Beekman St, Plattsburgh, NY 12901, United States
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