The Columbus Girlchoir, led by Dr. Cherry Dunn, will perform in the Eugenia Summer Gallery in Mississippi University for Women’s Art and Design Building Sunday, March 29 at 2 p.m.
The concert is the inaugural event for an outreach effort by the Mississippi University for Women Galleries, of which the Summer Gallery is a part. The program, entitled Sunday Afternoon in the Gallery, will feature family-friendly events throughout the academic year.
“The goal of the Sunday Afternoon series is to give people who cannot visit the galleries during the normal hours of operation an opportunity to view our exhibitions on a weekend date. We have wonderful exhibitions here, and we wanted to share them with the larger community. Having events on special Sundays will allow us to do that,” said Dr. Beverly Joyce, the new gallery director. “We are thrilled to have such a high quality group as the Columbus Girlchoir to open our series for us,” Joyce added.
The Columbus Girlchoir was founded in 2004 by Dunn to teach choral arts to girls, ages 9 to 18. The organization has received many accolades for its excellence, including acceptance into Treble Song, an honor choir sponsored by the Mississippi Girlchoir. Each year, the Columbus Girlchoir has five to 10 singers winning places in the state level honor choir.
The Girlchoir also performed at the Crescent City Choral Festival in New Orleans in 2009 and 2011. They were also the artists-in-residence choir for the Choral Music Institute in Elon, North Carolina, in 2010. The Senior Girlchoir sang at Carnegie Hall in New York in 2013 with other specially selected choirs from across the country.
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