ORANGE PARK \u2014The Orange Park Chorale serenaded a plentiful audience with tuneful melodies on March 22 during their annual spring concert series stop at Orange Park Presbyterian Church.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was the second of three performances dedicated to “A Spiritual Journey” (the first was at Mandarin United Methodist Church on March 21), yet that didn’t stop the 65-person ensemble’s fervor to provide a euphonious show for the packed pews. The concert was dedicated to bringing together traditional and well-known African American spirituals, folk and gospel songs that expressed a wide range of emotions, including determination and praise.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The showcase, directed by David Holladay and Mark Stallings, featured various songs, including: “Hush, Somebody’s Callin’ My Name,” often interpreted as a divine call to freedom; “Come By Here,” an African American spiritual with ties to enslaved Central Africans; a jazz-inspired rendition of “Dry Bones,” a spiritual based on Ezekiel’s vision in the Bible; and the popular “I’ll Fly Away,” which earned them a final standing ovation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Soloists Wayne Bailey and Jack Sumrall III stood front and center during “Wayfaring Stranger” and “Ain’t Got Time to Die,” respectively. Sumrall also performed a solo for “The Chariot Jubilee.”<\/p>\n
Kelly O’Brien played the string bass, and Chris Crothers was on the drums, while Lisa Heath played the piano and Lydia Landes played the organ.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The chorale will have one final performance at Penney Memorial Church, 4465 Poling Blvd., on March 28 at 4 p.m.\u00a0 Concert attendance is free and donations will be accepted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORANGE PARK \u2014The Orange Park Chorale serenaded a plentiful audience with tuneful melodies on March 22 during their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3496,3487,3495,3498,3488,3493,116,118,117,3492,3494,3499,3490,3489,3497,3491],"class_list":["post-205841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-argyle","tag-clay-county","tag-doctors-inlet","tag-eagle-harbor","tag-fleming-island","tag-green-cove-springs","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-keystone-heights","tag-lake-asbury","tag-margaret","tag-middleburg","tag-orange-park","tag-pace-island","tag-penney-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}