The Maryville College Concert Choir will kick off its mini-tour with a send-off concert at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday, March 8, in the Harold and Jean Lambert Recital Hall of the Clayton Center for the Arts on the MC campus. Homeward Bound is the tour’s theme.
Author Wendy Wunder wrote that “the magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.”
Performances for the spring mini-tour include:
- 10:40 a.m. Friday, March 10, at Bearden High School, 8352 Kingston Pike in Knoxville
- 12:30 p.m. Friday, March 10, at Oak Ridge High School, 1450 Oak Ridge Turnpike in Oak Ridge
- 7 p.m. Friday, March 10, at First Baptist Church of Tellico Village, 205 Chota Road in Loudon
- 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 11, at Garden Plaza at Cleveland Life Care Center, 3500 Keith St. NW in Cleveland, Tennessee
- 11 a.m. Sunday, March 12, at Second Presbyterian Church, 700 Pine St. in Chattanooga; and
- 5 p.m. Sunday, March 12, at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 6500 S. Northshore Drive in Knoxville.
The choir tour performances in area churches are free and open to the public, and many are in locations familiar to those who have kept up with tour stops in years past. Info here.