Rome To Hold “Christmas Candlelight Concert”
Georgia’s Rome will usher in a new Christmas tradition next week with a new community-wide, free event. The Christmas Candlelight Concert will be held Tuesday, December 4 in Historic Downtown Rome.
This event will feature a community choir comprised of community, church, and school groups accompanied by a large orchestra. The choir will process by candlelight from City Hall down Broad Street and into The Forum Civic Center. Once inside The Forum, the choir will join the orchestra and narrators for traditional Christmas music and the reading of the Christmas story.
The Christmas Candlelight Concert processional will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will depart from City Hall, located at 601 Broad Street. The public is welcome to view the processional along Broad Street and enter The Forum through the main entrance. Those who would like to enter The Forum early (and not watch the processional down Broad Street), can enjoy a selection of Christmas music presented by the orchestra beginning at 6:30 p.m. The performance by the combined choirs, orchestra, and narration will begin at 7:00 p.m. inside The Forum.
Music:
· Choirs under the direction of Kam Malone
Three Rivers Singers, Shorter College, Armuchee Middle School, First Baptist Church of Rome, First United Methodist Church of Rome, Second Avenue Methodist Church, St. Peters Episcopal Church Youth Choir, Trinity United Methodist Church, Pepperrell Middle School, Pepperell High School, Model Middle School & Model High School, Westminster Presbyterian Church
· Orchestra under the direction of Sam Baltzer
Northwest Georgia Winds & New Horizons Band
· First Baptist Church Handbell Choir under the direction of Keith Reaves
· Unity Christian School Steel Drum Band under the direction of Bill King
· Soloist: Dr. Regina Zona, Assistant Professor of Music at Shorter College
Narration:
· Reading of the Christmas Story from the Gospel of Luke by St. John Flynn
Host & Producer of Cover to Cover, GPB’s radio book club (Bio attached)
· Invocation by Bishop Nealon Guthrie
Founder & Pastor of the Greater Christ Temple Rapture Preparation Cathedral
· Reading of “One Solitary Life” by Esther Vaughn
Minister of Music – Lovejoy Baptist Church
Sponsors of the Christmas Candlelight Concert include the Greater Rome Convention & Visitors Bureau, City of Rome, Floyd County, The Forum Civic Center, WRGA, Darlington School, and the Montessori School of Rome.
For more information about the Christmas Candlelight Concert, please visit www.romegeorgia.org or call 706/295-5576.
