First Church Boxford Celebrates Black History Month with a Gospel Choir from the Boston Area

February 25, 2012 at 7:00pm
 

First Church Congregational Boxford announced that it is hosting the gospel choir Confirmation on February 25, 2012 at 7:00pm. This is a sixth-annual engagement resulting from the packed-out performances given the last few years.

“The Choir is world-class in their delivery, message, and presence. It’s always a great opportunity to sing along and enjoy the high level of enthusiasm and spontaneity they bring to the crowd,” said Doug Walker, First Church’s new pastor. Added Phil Jamieson, FCCB’s chairman of outreach, “We hope to host the Gospel Choir every February for the foreseeable future, as we join them in celebrating Black History Month here in Boxford. Last year the message was powerful, uplifting, and enthusiastically received by a wide variety of people in the audience, including many of our friends at Place of Promise in Lowell. They’re coming back too, so it will be even more fun this year!”

Confirmation is an award-winning music ministry of contemporary gospel. They tour throughout Massachusetts and New England and reach out to all walks of life, including homeless shelters and prisons, as well as for the New England Patriots, the Democratic National Convention Committee, the original House of Blues and, of course, First Church Congregational Boxford.

Confirmation will be performing with their own style of gospel music that is fused with tinges of pop and shades of jazz, blues, hip-hop, funk and soul even classical. Directed by David Coleman, Confirmation celebrates life through the fellowship of shared song. Conferring inner strength through the vibration of conviction, Confirmation brings seven lives together to tell the human story in harmonic glory.

Born in 1999 under the direction of David Coleman, Confirmation celebrates life through the fellowship of shared song. Conferring inner strength through the vibration of conviction, Confirmation brings seven lives together to tell the human story in harmonic glory.

Director David Coleman founded Confirmation in 1999 to create a unique music ministry for enriching the spirits of all who participate. He holds a Bachelors in Music in both piano performance and theory/composition from Boston University and an M.A. in music composition from Tufts University. In addition to his work with the group Confirmation, David is actively involved in gospel music throughout New England. He is currently Director of Choral Music at the Dana Hall School in Wellesley, the Director of Tufts University Third Day Gospel Choir, and he has taught at the Boston Conservatory, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, the Walnut Hill School, Phillips Academy Andover, and Beaver Country Day School. For more than a decade, he also directed the Boston University Inner Strength Gospel Choir and several choirs at St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Cambridge, MA. In 2007, he received the Thomas A. Dorsey Gospel Music Award from the New England Conservatory.
 

Doors will open at 6:00 p.m. at First Church's Family Life Center. Refreshments of ice cream, brownies and coffee will cap off this outstanding event. This is a free concert open to the public although donations are appreciated.

For more details and directions, please visit www.FirstChurchBoxford.org.