BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – The twenty-second annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Gospel Festival will be held on Monday, Jan. 16 at Illinois Wesleyan University. Free and open to the public, the event will run from 3 p.m. until 9 p.m. in Westbrook Auditorium of Presser Hall (1210 Park St., Bloomington).
The celebration in honor of the birth of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., will include performances by The United Gospel Singers of Bloomington/Normal Mass Choir, The Hour of Deliverance Youth Choir, Boys and Girls Club Choir, the Rev. Frank and Mrs. Bettye McSwain, Elder Homer Calhoun, Gayles Memorial Mass Choir and Praise Dancers (Aurora, Ill.), The Fantastic Jones Family (Springfield, Ill.), Illinois Wesleyan Chapel Gospel Choir and the Rev. Spencer Gibson and the Integrity Singers (Peoria, Ill.).
Also performing will be Mount Pisgah Sunbeam Choir, Union Missionary Baptist Church Junior Gospel Quartet, Union Missionary Baptist Church Adult Choir, Illinois State Interdenominational Youth Choir, Loving Missionary Baptist Church, Jam Production Choir, Mt. Pisgah Praise Dancers and Mt. Pisgah Adult Choir.