Video: Total Experience Gospel Choir at Alki Elementary

February 6, 2009 at 9:04 pm | In West Seattle news, West Seattle schools, West Seattle video | 6 Comments

Thanks to Alki Elementary for letting WSB share this afternoon’s Black History Month assembly, starring Pastor Pat Wright and members of Seattle’s world-famous Total Experience Gospel Choir. (They’re practically a West Seattle institution, since, as noted in our Kenyon Hall article two weeks ago, they rehearse at KH every week.) With Alki students watching, enrapt, from the floor — sometimes singing and clapping, too — the singers filled the cafeteria with joyful tunes, and then a surprise in the middle of “Reach Out and Touch Somebody’s Hand” — as choir members did exactly that, fanning out through the crowd:

Find out more about the Total Experience Gospel Choir (members “10 to 65 years old,” as mentioned today) at its website.

6 Comments

  1. Pat Wright is an amazing woman…and the TEGC is wonderful. We are so lucky to have them in our community…and the Alki Elem. children had a very special treat today…I’m jealous.

    So…here’s a quiz…can you name someone who got their start with the choir, and became a bit of a celebrity on TV?

    Comment by JanS — February 6, 09 10:52 pm #

  2. Sanjaya Malaker – the young American Idol contestant.

    Can I have a lottery ticket for my prize please?

    Comment by d — February 6, 09 11:19 pm #

  3. Thank you so much for posting this! My daughter really enjoyed the performance, and I was sorry I couldn’t join her for it.

    Comment by herongrrrl — February 6, 09 11:35 pm #

  4. d…your prize is just having the knowledge that you know things like that ;-)

    Comment by JanS — February 7, 09 11:49 am #

  5. Cool, get religion in those kids face when they are young. That way the will be sheep forever.

    Comment by glocson — February 7, 09 4:23 pm #

  6. Actually, the songs performed had more to do with the topic of the assembly, Black History, than just plain “gospel.” The one that we featured in the video clip above, as introduced (and as verified in some links we found online), dates back to the 1800s, as a sort of code message involving slaves planning to escape – TR

    Comment by WSB — February 7, 09 5:00 pm #

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