The acclaimed Charleston Gospel Choir joins the Charleston Spiritual Ensemble and, for the first time, the Colour of Music Festival Chorale for the holidays to present the 16^th Annual Gospel Christmas.

Providing the setting for the story of Christ’s birth through music, the Charleston Spiritual Ensemble opens the program with moving interpretations of sacred holiday music in the manner of the African-American Spiritual featuring talented mezzo soprano, Shanelle Woods. Williams Dawson’s Behold the Star and Jacqueline B. Hairston’s, Nowhere To Lay His Head are among classic sacred works from the Robert Shaw and Russell Bennett collection that include Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming, O Sanctissima and Break Forth, and O Beauteous Heavenly Light.