Combined Mennonite Men's Choir Festival to raise money for Mennonite Central Committee

Concert: Mennonite Men's Choir Festival
Date and time: Saturday, June 11 at 7 p.m.
Location: Goshen College Music Center's Sauder Concert Hall
Cost: Free and open to the public. A free-will offering will be taken to benefit Mennonite Central Committee world relief efforts.

GOSHEN, Ind. – Nearly 200 Mennonite male choral singers will come together in June to raise their voices in song and raise money for world relief efforts as part of the 2011 Mennonite Men's Choir Festival. The festival, which will feature men's choirs from the Michiana area, Kansas and Ohio, will culminate with a free public concert on Saturday, June 11 at 7 p.m. in the Goshen College Music Center's Sauder Concert Hall.

Admission to the concert is free. A free-will offering will be taken, with all proceeds benefitting Mennonite Central CommitteeÕs (MCC) world relief efforts.

Performing will be the Michiana Men's Chorus, directed by Darrel Hostetler; the Kansas Mennonite Men's Chorus, directed by Greg Bontrager; and the Ohio Mennonite Men's Chorale, directed by Tim Shue. The three choirs combined include singers that hail from Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Colorado and Missouri.

The choirs will perform individually, and will also combine as a mass chorus to perform works by Alice Parker, Allen Pote, Glen Burleigh and J. Harold Moyer.

MCC, a worldwide ministry of Anabaptist churches, shares God's love and compassion for all in the name of Christ by responding to basic human needs and working for peace and justice. MCC envisions communities worldwide in right relationship with God, one another and creation. For more information, visit www.mcc.org.

Editors: For more information about this release, contact Goshen College News Bureau Director Jodi H. Beyeler at (574) 535-7572 or jodihb@goshen.edu.

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