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Allowyn Price & the Disciples of Prayer (Guest) UCB YIGC Spring Gospel Concert 4/23/1988

Allowyn Price & the Disciples of Prayer - Guest Event: Professor Silvester Henderson & the University of California's Spring Gospel Concert Date: 4/23/1988 Professor Silvester Henderson - Young Inspiration Gospel Choir Conducted by their acclaimed original director, Professor Silvester Carl Henderson, the University of California at Berkeley’s internationally noted Young Inspiration Gospel Choir was formed in 1985 in an effort to earn "The Gospel Song" academic recognition as an African American art form. YIGC has been lauded in various media circulations. On April 15, 2005, Bob Mackenzie, from the Bay Area's Channel 2 News, visited the rehearsal of the Young Inspirations and shared with local and national TV viewers, the success of the choir and its director. Willie Monroe, also from the Bay Area’s Channel Seven News, has produced a live TV broadcast. The Contra Costa Times, listed YIGC on the front page of the "Time Out" section when they were made aware that the Young Inspirations would be performing at a Contra Costa County's community choral celebration. This section of the paper is only dedicated to top-billed classical, jazz, R & B and country artists. This was, in essence, a donation of over $100,000 dollars. In April of 1992, YIGC recorded their first live album entitled, The Gospel Experience. The album is placed in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institute’s Gospel Music Division, and accordingly, they named YIGC as the "finest" university gospel choir in the nation. The choir sold over one hundred - thousand copies of this historic recording. In November of 1998, The Second Gospel Experience was released, which has been shared by over forty thousand purchasers. Each semester, the choir conducts an Educational Tour to offer inspirational and educational performances for audiences at various public and private schools, churches and the general community. Over the last few years, the choir has disseminated the gospel song in the following areas: San Luis Obispo; Salinas; Gilroy; Redding; Fort Braggs; Palo Cedro; Pasadena; Fresno; Los Angeles; Monterey; Carmel; Mendocino; Yuba City; Pebble Beach; Lincoln City; Clovis City; Carson City; Eugene, Oregon; Reno, NV; Las Vegas, NV; Henderson, NV., and Bakersfield, California. In March of 2002, the choir presented a premier concert for the California Music Educators Association (CMEA). To a packed audience at the prominent Sacramento Convention Center, the choir presented a Gospel Music Lecture Concert, demonstrating all of Professor Henderson’s “Five Styles" of the Gospel Song. The choir has become the "Model" for academically approved Gospel Choirs, throughout the United States. During an April 22, 1999, earlier choir tour, the "Pasadena Journal", the major area newspaper stated the following about the choir: "YIGC erases all misconceptions of Gospel Vocalist aroused by members of society" On April 23, 1995, the Young Inspiration Gospel Choir celebrated its "Tenth Year Anniversary", drawing hundreds of former students from all over the country. Completely filling the Zellerbach Hall, the choir raised some $78,000.00 dollars that evening. The choir also holds the record for being UC Berkeley’s first musical ensemble to move from a non-academic division to becoming an "OFFICIAL ACADEMIC" class. The choir became an accredited course in the Department of African American Studies and Music, at the start of the Spring Semester, 1996. On April 15,2000, the NAACP with and "Outstanding Music Achievement Award" honored the Young Inspiration for their dedication to using Gospel Music as a"Tool" for promoting Multicultural Unity and diversity at UC Berkeley and abroad. The Young Inspirations has hosted and performed with celebrity gospel and jazz artists including Richard Smallwood, Daryl Coley, Walter Hawkins, and the Love Center Choir, Jon Gibson, V. Michael McKay, Calvin Bernard Rhone, Michael Fletcher, Micah Stampley, Charisse Nelson Machintosh, Melanie Daniels (vocal coach for Mariah Carey), Kurt Carr and the Kurt Carr Singers, Pamela Davis, "Mr. Gospel According to Jazz" Kirk Whalum, Billy Porter, pop star, Howard Hewett, Norman Hutchins, Lynette Hawkins-Stephens, Rev. Quincy Fielding, Helen Stephens, and the Lighthouse Singers, as well as the R& B artist Vesta. YIGC has also performed for political figures such as Mayor Willie Brown, the Silicon Valley Bureau's "Rainbow/Push Coalition," "La Casa de Las Madres," "Hayward - South Alameda County NAACP," Ms. Ernestine Barlow Peters—the past Regional Director for the NAACP "Image Awards," Jo Cazenave—the District Director for Congressman Pete Starks, and even the "Intel Corporation." YIGC is a UC Berkeley student group and an audition only course in the Music and African American Studies Departments. Currently, there are over 5,000 alumni of YIGC and as the choir continues to "inspire," we are appropriately named for Gospel Music "INSPIRES" us all.