MIAC Welcomes Award-Successful Soweto Gospel Choir on Oct. 7

The multi-Grammy® and Emmy Award®-winning SOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR returns to North America with its live performance entitled “PEACE,” a joyful program of South African freedom songs, conventional spirituals, and a few classics like “Man in the Mirror” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” The inspirational live performance can even function the spirited music of Aretha Franklin, Harry Belafonte, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Leonard Cohen, and extra.

The Mercyhurst Institute for Arts & Culture is thrilled to current the choir on Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 7:30 p.m. within the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center. Ticket costs vary from $25-$50 and are on sale now at miac.mercyhurst.edu and 814-824-3000.

Formed in 2002, the SOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR was created to have a good time the distinctive energy of African gospel music and shortly established itself as a bunch that’s “undeniably synchronized, appears unshakable, and simultaneously expresses universality and individuality” (San Francisco Classical Voice). Heralded by Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Barack Obama, and Oprah Winfrey, the choir excites audiences worldwide, uplifting the soul and spreading pleasure by means of its earthy rhythms, wealthy harmonies, good costumes, and infectious spirit. It’s excellent for all the household!

The SOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR has collaborated and carried out with Peter Gabriel, U2, John Legend, Robert Plant, Chance the Rapper, Celine Dion, Diana Ross, Pharrell Williams, and lots of extra. They have carried out in prestigious venues throughout the globe together with Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, Royal Festival Hall London, and Nelson Mandela Theatre. Further, they’ve carried out at such vital occasions because the 2009 Academy Awards, Nelson Mandela’s memorial service in Westminster Abbey, centenary celebrations, Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s funeral (in addition to his seventy fifth and eightieth birthdays), the FIFA 2009 World Cup opening ceremony in Cape Town (and kick-off in Johannesburg), and Winnie Madikileza-Mandela’s memorial service.

In addition to Nelson Mandela and their as soon as patron, Desmond Tutu, they’ve carried out earlier than Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, His Majesty King Charles and Her Majesty Queen Camilla, Prince Harry, Princess Charlene of Monaco, and a plethora of TV personalities, celebrities, glitteraties, dignitaries, ambassadors, film stars, and rock stars. The SOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR has additionally appeared on NBC’s Today Show and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

The SOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR has been nominated for 5 Grammys, an Oscar (with Peter Gabriel), six South African Music Awards (SAMAs), in addition to an International Reggae and World Music Award. They have been awarded three Grammys in their very own proper and three related ones, an Emmy Award, three SAMAs, two American Gospel Awards, the inaugural Tower Music African Gospel Award for finest gospel group, and a Helpmann Award.

Tickets, priced $25-$50, will be bought on-line at miac.universitytickets.com, over the cellphone at 814-824-3000, or in individual on the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center field workplace (Tues.-Thurs., noon-5 p.m.). Each order is topic to a $5 per ticket processing payment, no matter buy or cost technique.

This efficiency is introduced with beneficiant help from Knox Law. The 2025-26 MIAC Live season is sponsored by Alan & Patti Schaal and VNET, with extra help from the Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority and the Greater Erie Alliance for Equality.