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Hamilton-Gibson children and youth choirs to tour Pennsylvania, West Virginia

WELLSBORO – The Hamilton-Gibson Children and Youth Choir will leave May 5 for a four-day performance tour. Going on the trip will be 40 choir members and nine adults.

Thomas Putnam is the director of the Children’s Concert Choir and the Young Men’s Choir. Directing the Young Women’s Choir is Sarah Polinski, a Mansfield University senior music student. Marian Miller is piano accompanist.

Through music, the choirs are exploring the theme “Time.” Some of the selections they will be singing on tour are Stephen Foster’s “Hard Times Come Again No More”; a traditional American camp meeting song called “No Time”; the spiritual “Ain’t Got Time to Die”; and a collection of five pieces from a 15-piece musical work called #Twitterleider that are each written as a tweet in 140 characters or less and deal with childhood and youth.

On May 5, the choirs’ first concert will be in Pennsylvania at historic Old Economy Village in Ambridge, Beaver County. The choirs then will travel to the high school at Burgettstown in Washington County and have an informal choral exchange with its choir members.

On May 6, the choirs will sing with the Morgantown Children’s Choir at their spring concert at the University of West Virginia. There, the choirs also will sing on May 7 at a Team Hope Walk for the Huntington’s Disease Society of America. That afternoon, they will tour the area including the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia.

On May 8, the choirs will head home to Wellsboro. On the way, they will sing at the 10 a.m. service of the Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Cumberland, Maryland, and then have brunch with the congregation. Located in Cumberland’s Historic District, the church is built on the foundations of Fort Cumberland, where George Washington began his military career.

This marks the group’s first tour since completing its goal on April 29 to sing in all 67 counties in Pennsylvania.

The Hamilton-Gibson choirs also will present their Homecoming Concert at 2:30 p.m. May 15 at Steadman Theater at Mansfield University. For more information, call 570-724-2079 or email hamgib@gmail.com.

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