Video: Total Experience Gospel Choir at Alki Elementary

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 Replies to "Video: Total Experience Gospel Choir at Alki Elementary"

  • JanS February 6, 2009 (10:52 pm)

    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?

  • d February 6, 2009 (11:19 pm)

    Sanjaya Malaker – the young American Idol contestant.

    Can I have a lottery ticket for my prize please?

  • herongrrrl February 6, 2009 (11:35 pm)

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

  • JanS February 7, 2009 (11:49 am)

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

  • glocson February 7, 2009 (4:23 pm)

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

  • WSB February 7, 2009 (5:00 pm)

    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

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