{"id":5564,"date":"2024-03-21T21:10:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T21:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=5564"},"modified":"2024-03-21T21:10:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T21:10:51","slug":"troy-university-gospel-singers-hold-spring-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/03\/21\/troy-university-gospel-singers-hold-spring-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy University Gospel Singers hold Spring Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/120882205485\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Troy University Gospel Singers<\/a> (TUGS) held its first concert of the semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are a group of people opened to all faiths and backgrounds,&#8221; said TUGS Director Carlton Copeland. &#8220;We explore Black gospel music, the spiritual, and Southern gospel music. Tonight was our spring concert and it was entitled, &#8216;Cry Holy.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Copeland says he based the concert around the opening song titled &#8216;Cry Holy.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/03\/07\/world-renowned-pianist-andreas-klein-performs-at-troy-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OTHER NEWS: World renowned pianist Andreas Klein performs at Troy University<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I typically just start listening to music and if a song really resonates with me I tend to save it and I will loop the song. &#8216;Cry Holy&#8217; was our theme song and I just kept looping that song and I found songs that went with that theme.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A crowd favorite was the song &#8220;Total Praise.&#8221; Copeland says it is one of his personal favorite songs to perform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I always enjoy our closer, &#8216;Total Praise.&#8217; We&#8217;ve been doing that a couple years now. We end every concert with &#8216;Total Praise.&#8217; It is a song that everyone knows and is often a song that everyone will sing with us.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Copeland says he is encouraged by the students he directs, whether they are performers or work behind the scenes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TUGS rehearses Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30 to 6:45 in Long Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 The Troy University Gospel Singers (TUGS) held its first concert of the semester.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are a group of people opened to all faiths and backgrounds,&#8221; said TUGS Director Carlton Copeland. &#8220;We explore Black gospel music, the spiritual, and Southern gospel music. Tonight was our spring concert and it was entitled, &#8216;Cry&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/03\/21\/troy-university-gospel-singers-hold-spring-concert\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":5592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[1483,1485,1484],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-5564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-carlton-copeland","tag-troy-university-gospel-singers","tag-tugs","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5564"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=5564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}