CD & DVD Set - University of Alabama at Birmingham Gospel Choir
Winner of the 2007 and 2008 Alabama People's Choice Awards: College Choir of the Year, Best CD, Best Producer! Featured in Southern Living Magazine! UAB Gospel Choir, winners of the 2008 BAMA Award for Best Gospel Choir! In rotation on XM Radio and the Myriad Gospel Countdown. Previous CD releases featured on BET, jingles nominated for regional CLIOs, and there back again with this exciting new release.
CREDITS:
Executive Producer: Kevin Paul Turner “Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia”, Producer: Melvin “Jay” Terry Jr. for JTZ Music Group, Co-Producer/Director: Kevin Paul Turner, Recording Engineer: Joe Neil, Remote Recording Unit: Sam’s Tape Truck, Atlanta, GA (Executive Arts Productions, Inc.), Recording Location: Jemison Concert Hall – UAB Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center/Dan Gainey, Production and Facilities Director, Music Dept. Chair: Dr. Jeff W. Reynolds
Mixing: James Beville & Melvin “Jay” Terry, Jr. at UAB Department of Music Recording Studios, Mastering: Daniel Beard for Musiek Entertainment, Inc, House Engineer: James Beville
LIVE BAND: Timothy George (drums), Emery Kidd (electric bass guitar), Clinton Green (keyboards), Anthony Williams (Hammond organ); Jeff Pegues (programming)
RECORDING STUDIO MUSICIANS: Melvin “Jay” Terry, Jr. (electric bass guitar, auxiliary keyboards, programming), Bryan Capps (percussion), Eric Essix (lead guitars), Sean Michael Ray (electric bass guitar), Brandon Withers (tambourine), Cameron Sankey (keyboards), Clinton Green (keyboards), Randy Smith (lead guitar), Nicholas Ackron (steel guitar), William Barnes (acoustic guitar), Kevin Paul Turner (keyboards), Marcus Hogan (keyboards), Dave P. Moore (harmonica); Choreographer: Christina Jones (steppers, mimes & dance team), OVERDUBS: UAB Dept of Music Recording Studios, The Hott Box – Midfield, AL & Special Session Studios,
DVD: Produced by Kevin P. Turner & Donnell Perry, Concept Videos - Kevin P. Turner, Director
Web Master: Joshua Shaw (www.uabgospelchoir.com), check us out on Myspace too! www.myspace.com/uabgospelchoir
The free DVD is full-featured. It includes concert footage, two concept videos (After You've Prayed About It and Dominion), a tribute to Virginia Tech and a tribute to the late great Bishop Robert McMurray & Rev. James Cleveland.
The UAB Gospel Choir has performed locally with the Birmingham Metropolitan Orchestra, the ASO and likewise with internationally renowned artists including: Stevie Wonder, Ruben Studdard, Vanessa Bell-Armstrong, Daryl Coley, and Lee Greenwood. Equally important the UAB Gospel Choir has opened for artists including Tonex, Kirk Franklin, Fred Hammond, Karen Clark-Sheard and Dottie Peoples. In addition this choir was featured in its own TV special on the former Time Warner Cable Company in Birmingham, AL. In November 2004. Also in November 2004, they took the stage with William Murphy, J. Moss and L. Spencer Smith & Testament at the Hallelujah 105.9FM music festival in Bessemer, AL. The UAB Gospel Choir was featured in the filming of a documentary produced by Dr. Henry Louis Gates - Harvard's chair of Afro-American Studies, "Black America in the 21st Century, journey through the South." The show aired in September 2003 on PBS and the BBC. The choir tours each Spring in March, check our main web site for dates and details.
The UAB Gospel Choir has performed for former Miss America Heather Whitestone and former first lady Barbara Bush. In addition, the choir has performed for the United States Secretary of Education, celebrations at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, the inaugural ceremonies for Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, the inaugural prayer breakfast with Martin Luther King III, the Alabama Commission on Higher Education (ACHE) annual convention, the Birmingham Heritage Festival, Birmingham's City Stages Music Festival, seen on ESPN II and the Edmund Pettus Bridge Celebration in Selma, Ala. The U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic (Prague) is a fan of the choir.
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