Sounds of Gold coming for Valentine's Day concert

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January 29, 2010

For The Daily Southerner The Daily Southerner Fri Jan 29, 2010, 10:51 AM EST

The Sounds of Gold is coming to Edgecombe Community College's McIntyre Auditorium to help celebrate the 250th Birthday of the Town of Tarboro. The concert will 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 14, Valentines Day.

Seating will be limited to 320.

The concert is sponsored by the Edgecombe County Veterans Museum with proceeds going to the renovation of the Colonial Theater. Tickets are $10 and can be obtained at the Blount-Bridgers House, Chamber of Commerce, Rusty’s and the Veterans Museum or at the door on the day of performance.

The Sounds of Gold is a 35-voice a cappella choir dedicated to singing at the highest level those choral works that can engage the listener, challenge the singer and withstand the test of time.

Carol Banks of Tarboro is a member of the choir.

The group was founded in 1995 by Jesse Shearin and is based in Rocky Mount.

The Sounds of Gold sings primarily in churches and seeks out especially opportunities to sing in historic churches that have acoustics favorable to unaccompanied singing. Recent venues include Saint Thomas Church in Bath, Bruton Parish Church in Historic Williamsburg, R. E. Lee Memorial Episcopal Church in Lexington, Old North Church in Boston, Saint Francis of Assisi in New York City, Christ Church in Dublin and Canterbury Cathedral.

Most recently the group sang at The Dunn Center for the Performing Arts as part of the 2009-10 season ticket series and will be singing at the historic Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah on Sunday.

A typical program will include traditional church music, folk songs and early American folk hymns, gospel tunes and spirituals, as well as traditional popular tunes. Most programs last about one hour.

The Sounds of Gold performs without financial compensation.

“Its members feel that the joy of singing beautiful music with people they love for an appreciative audience in an acoustically friendly environment is compensation beyond measure,” Shearin said.

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