Spelman College Glee Club in Concert

Join us in Serenbe’s beautiful wildflower meadow for an early evening of extraordinary choral performance featuring the celebrated Spelman College Glee Club.

The Spelman College Glee Club has maintained a reputation for choral excellence since 1924. Open by audition to all students of the College community, the Glee Club performs a repertoire that includes selections from world cultures, commissioned works, sacred and secular choral literature, Negro spirituals, and music by African American composers with a particular focus on harmonies that complement women’s voices.

Currently under the direction of Dr. Kevin Johnson, associate professor of music, the Glee Club has traveled throughout the United States and performed for a variety of audiences in churches, high schools, colleges and universities. Past performance venues include the Faneuil Hall in Boston, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City, and the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

Spelman College is a Private, historically black, women’s liberal arts college located in Atlanta,Georgia. Founded in 1881as Atlanta BaptistFemale Seminary, the school became Spelman college in 1924 making it America’s second oldest private HBCU liberal arts college for women.