Inspirational Sounds Gospel Singers
return to Pacific City
Saturday, May 5, at 6:00 pm
Nestucca Valley Presbyterian Church

Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
35305 Brooten Road, Pacific City

Tickets: $10 General Admission
Tickets for students 18 and under are free.
available at
The Pacific City Inn, Rowboat Gallery, and at the performance.

The Pacific City Arts Association presents Inspirational Sounds, a non-denominational community gospel choir from Eugene. Inspirational Sounds performed to an enthusiastic Pacific City audience in 2009. Responding to numerous requests to bring the group back for another concert, PCAA is pleased to sponsor a return engagement.

Christopher Stubbs directs the eighteen-member choir and also plays keyboards. Kathy Vrzak serves as the assistant director. Membership includes singers from Eugene, Springfield, Cottage Grove, and Corvallis. The group is a unique gospel choir because it includes a large percentage of non-African Americans but still retains a traditional Black gospel choir sound. The choir encourages audiences to become involved, joining them in clapping, shouting, singing, and celebrating.

John Gainer, a former University of Oregon music professor, founded the choir in 1983. Inspirational Sounds performs traditional African American, call-and-response style music as well more contemporary gospel songs at venues ranging from Eugene’s Saturday Market to the Oregon State Legislature to New York’s Lincoln Center. The group is well known throughout the state of Oregon for its energetic renditions of gospel music and is often featured at Martin Luther King Day celebrations in Portland and Eugene.