Experience an evening of glorious sounds, artistry, and uplifting messages with the Washington Performing Arts gospel choirs. The choirs and special guests will perform a program of traditional and contemporary works. For more than 30 years, the gospel choirs have nurtured both aspiring and experienced vocalists while bringing powerful messages of hope to the most prominent stages in the region.
Washington Performing Arts presents
Men and Women of the Gospel Choir
Theodore Thorpe III, Artistic Director
Children of the Gospel Choir
Michele Fowlin, Artistic Director
Children of the Gospel Alumni Choir
Featuring Grammy Award-Winning
Karen Clark Sheard
Anthony Walker, Music Director
Karon Johnson, Choreographer
American Sign Language interpretation will be provided for this concert.
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Get tickets at
https://www.washingtonperformingarts.org/event/gospel-choirs-25/
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About Karen Clark Sheard:
Four-time GRAMMY® Award-winner and multiple Stellar and GMA Dove Award winner Karen Clark Sheard is a vocalist, songwriter, entrepreneur, wife and mother. She is also a gospel music legend and a part of a musical dynasty. Admired by a wide range of vocalists from various genres, Clark Sheard is renowned throughout the music industry for her signature, one-of-a-kind multi-octave vocal range and ability. Her musical style with the legendary Clark Sisters and as a solo artist has inspired a host of today’s brightest pop divas including Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, Missy Elliott, and Faith Evans, among countless others. Clark Sheard also is a partner in ministry with her husband, Bishop J. Drew Sheard, Pastor of Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church of God and Christ in Detroit, MI, where she serves as first lady.
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This performance is made possible in part through the generous support of the following sponsors: Susan S. Angell; Mrs. Paula Seigle Goldman.
Gospel music programs at Washington Performing Arts are made possible in part through the generous support of The Beech Street Foundation and Mr. Jeffrey Bauman and Ms. Linda Fienberg; Dr. Gary Mather† and Tina Co Mather; Bruce Rosenblum and Lori Laitman; Trista L. P. Colbert and Theodore Colbert; Hubert “Hank” Schlosberg and the Schlosberg Family; Drs. Marc Schlosberg and Doreen Moreira; Ms. Susan B. Hepner; Thomas J. Kim and John F. Olson; Dr. Tafaya Ransom; Tom Gallagher and Barbara Myers; Mr. and Mrs. Mark and Alison Francis; Paula Siegle Goldman; Dan Cameron Family Foundation; Ms. Lydia Micheaux Marshall; Gordon and Lisa Rush; Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Wheeler; Jenny Bilfield and Joel Phillip Friedman; Kayla Ross Perry Memorial Foundation; HMF Beaudoin Family Foundation; Lauren† and Glen Howard; Rudy Burwell and Mona Mohib; Ms. Alice N. Rogoff; Carole and Henry Berman. Gifts of $1,000+ as of April 1, 2025.
Special Thanks to funders of the 2025 Children of the Gospel New York City trip: Classical Movements; Amtrak; Sunny and Bill Alsup; Nici and Toby Bush; Trista L. P. Colbert and Theodore Colbert; Denise Rollins; Leonade Jones; and Reginald van Lee.
Special thanks to the following lead supporters of Washington Performing Arts’s mission-driven work: Jacqueline Badger Mars and Mars, Incorporated; D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities; the National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs Program and the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts; The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; and Events DC.
† Deceased
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