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Sing It Loud: How 72 Voices Are Reviving a Cherished HBCU Tradition
Dr. Monique Robinson welcomes Dr. Justin Seay and four new members of the Wilberforce University Choir to celebrate their growing legacy and ambitious upcoming concert season.
• Choir membership has doubled to 72 students for the 2025-2026 season
• Dr. Say highlights upcoming performances including three AME conferences, Carnegie Hall, and Mother Bethel
• New members share their musical backgrounds and excitement about joining the choir family
• The choir will perform a concert version of Porgy and Bess in November
• Five specialized ensembles offer additional opportunities for students to develop their talents
• The strong connection between the AME Church and Wilberforce University provides support and performance venues
• This year's choir theme is "There Remaineth the Rest," focusing on faith and purpose
• Dr. Say emphasizes the importance of preserving Wilberforce's legacy that includes notable alumni like Charity Adams and Dorothy Vaughn
If you'd like to support the Wilberforce University Choir, visit wilberforce.edu, go to the institutional advancement page, and select "choir" when donating. Follow them on Facebook at Wilberforce University Chorus and Instagram at WooChorus1856.
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Speaker 4:Hello everyone and welcome to A Better Chance Television with myself, dr Monique Robinson. Now look, today is a special day. It's actually a year ago today we had one of my favorite guests in the whole wide world you know it had to be something. I got on the green and gold, you know it's something. So look, today I will be joined with a very special guest. I'm going to him on. He gonna tell you who he is and why I'm so excited that they're joining me today. Welcome, welcome. How are you?
Speaker 5:I'm back About my third or fourth time.
Speaker 4:Now look you might as well just put you on the scene.
Speaker 5:Right, I'm gonna listen. Regis and Kathy Lee.
Speaker 4:I am doing great, just it's it's it's prep season.
Speaker 5:We are down to about three weeks before students start arriving on campus. Classes start August 4, so it's that busy, busy, busy time and of course, I am getting ready for the concert season 25-26 concert season. We've got a lot of great stuff going on this year, so I'm looking forward to an amazing season. I got ridiculous talent. This class of students that's coming in it's about 35 of them and they are top-notch. Every single one of them is talented and just waiting to join the Wilberforce University Corps' legacy, and so I'm excited.
Speaker 4:I'm excited too now. He just brushed past. Brushed past, he can tell y'all who he was oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5:My name is dr justin say, the uh wilberforce university choir director, um, um, and I am I'm glad to be here.
Speaker 4:Sorry, mo, I forgot that I'm like he didn't tell us who he was. I know, but they don't know. But look, look, you ain't, you ain't ready. Look, that's a vintage, that's a vintage sweatshirt. So you know, this is what we wore when I was on tour. I think I got a picture actually, you know, standing at the microphone.
Speaker 5:I got the new one somewhere. I'll find it when we go to a break and then Mo remind me I have to send you one, because you know this year is really going to be about um reaching out to those who came before us oh, I love it and um, you know now that, uh, dr james arthur williams has passed away, and now his wife has passed away.
Speaker 5:We actually did a tribute video for her and for both of them, and that legacy has got to be. We've got to speak to the legacy that is Wilberforce University. I don't think anybody understands that. Not only are we the first private HBCU in this country, but there's so much more to the legacy of Wilberforce University. We're talking about folks like Charity Adams and Dorothy Vaughn, william Grant Steele, leontine Price. All these folks came through the halls of Wilberforce University and nobody really knows it. And so this year is going to be about sharing that legacy and really, really, really reaching out to those who came before us I love it.
Speaker 4:I was excited. Now I was at graduation I got the text where he was like, hey, you know any alum out there? I'm sorry, I do know the alma mater, though I still know it's brain in my like, it's like stuff. Just you know, even it's a true fact. Even when we was on our way to um the graduation, you know, shout out to the people who got their golden diplomas my parents especially, um, but on the way to the ceremony, because you know our guests in the back, they don't know this.
Speaker 4:But when you pull up to that campus from tour, from anywhere, you got to strike that alma mater as you pull it up on campus so that from anywhere you gotta strike that alma mater as you pull it up on campus, so that's and I used to always be the one that sing it, and you know, my friends, he's like money. Wake up, wake up. We almost there oh, there's a.
Speaker 5:There's a lot of traditions that they they will be engulfed in very quickly. The you know we sing the grace. We talked about this last year. We sing the grace. We go into the dining room after a concert. You do not sit down until Dr Say comes back, comes in that room and we have sung the grace. Then you sit down. Every soprano better know how to start the grace. These are all traditions that you and I know well and they're going to learn them and I know that they're going to enjoy themselves. I'm happy that I have four of our newbies with us today, and so I'm I'm excited to. I know they're nervous, but they'll be all right they shouldn't be.
Speaker 4:I mean, you know, because, honestly, I did not, um, initially plan to be in the choir, like I really didn't. I was going to the choir because somebody invited me to go with them, and that's how I ended up being at uh in will before his choir, and I thank my friend enough for taking me with her that day because I was like I don't want to go. You know you go to perform and I saw your life.
Speaker 5:You ain't trying to be now you look back like, oh, I saw your life, you ain't trying to be now. You look back like, oh, I wouldn't have changed a thing. I'm the same in central state and and it's funny that you know, I'm the director across the street from my own home, and so, hey, I was wondering how that you know how they feel about that. Listen, I hey, I, I am where god intended me to be you like that gold hold us together, but you know if I was supposed to be essential, I'll be essential.
Speaker 4:I'm at will for us I'm glad you were for us I am extremely proud of what I've seen this year and I, you know, honestly, don't see nothing but the best you know coming, because I'm like god they doing back to the way we used to. You got ame conference in the fall, tour time in the spring that schedule is the truth this year.
Speaker 5:Um, it's funny because when I came in last year there wasn't a schedule. Before I ended this school year, our schedule was much done because everybody was calling like, yep, they're back, let's get them back on schedule. We started a year with those three AME conferences this year. The first one is in Pittsburgh, then Toledo, no Columbus, and then Toledo. But the three did like three different conferences with like a week in between, so it's not back to back three days.
Speaker 4:Not like it used to be.
Speaker 5:Not like it used to be not like it used to be um night and then, yeah, and that's what it's still will, before it's playing night and we've and and I actually I talked to bishop wicker this morning and so he there's some changes he wants to implement this year and he's going to push that night back to the second night of the conference instead of the first. We're excited just to go back, because let me tell you something about the AME church. The AME church takes care of Wilberforce.
Speaker 9:They do.
Speaker 5:They take care of us. They take very good care of us. Anytime we roll into an AME church, they unfurl the red carpet and they make sure we eat. They make sure we got water. They make sure our dressing rooms are clean, they make sure. And then they come and check on us 20 million times, but I'm not complaining they, they really do.
Speaker 5:I'm not complaining. They are. They're amazing people. They love what before, they love the world before squire, and I'm happy to be able to direct this group and take them and represent not only Wilberforce University but the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Speaker 4:Definitely, because I grew up Baptist, so I had to learn a whole lot of new things.
Speaker 5:That's a whole different culture. It's a whole different flow of worship and everything I remember some of and I hope they're listening backstage. I remember last year some of the students were like Dr Say, we got to sight read these hymns. Yes, you do, yes, you do. You got to pick that hymnal up and you better say watermelon, watermelon, watermelon on the right pitches. But yeah, you got to sight read them hymns. Right there, right there in that choir stand because they looking for any worship in four-part harmony, exactly exactly.
Speaker 4:I do remember I did want to tell you this before we start, before we go to commercial and then come back with our guest At graduation. You took me back with Lift Every Voice and Sing. I was almost in tears and I was singing it because, honestly, I got in trouble in Columbus. I'll never forget because I didn't know the words. I know you know dr william james johns didn't play.
Speaker 4:He played when he played with another one, so I didn't know the words and so jaws, after you know we come off stage, I don't know what type of person stand on the front row and don't know the word. I knew them words by the next day because I like to travel and I wasn't going to miss no trips.
Speaker 5:Right.
Speaker 4:So if they listen to it backstage, know your words.
Speaker 5:Please, well, they ain't going to have no choice this year, because we're learning two versions of Lift Every Voice and Sing. Oh, okay, we're keeping the Roland Carter. I love Roland. That's my favorite, the one HBCU one that every HBCU sings, but there's a version of it by a gentleman by the name of Alvin Trotman. Oh, that we're going, and it's a lot slower. It's very flowy and it's very pretty and I'm like I want to use this and I don't know when I'm going to use it, but I'm going to use it. It's going into the next one.
Speaker 7:I am definitely excited um, please workforce university choir is back.
Speaker 4:They're back um on his second year and he took off running because last year y'all started off really big with um marette, yeah yeah, my red card I said, okay, he came out the scenes, you know throwing punches.
Speaker 5:Moret, yeah, yeah, moret.
Speaker 4:Clark. I said okay, he came out the scenes, you know, throwing punches, so you know you can't go nowhere, but up after that, exactly exactly, and I got some things in store for this year, but I'll wait.
Speaker 5:We'll talk about that later.
Speaker 4:Okay, so after this commercial break we are going to meet some of the newest additions to the Wilberforce University chorus and I am extremely excited.
Speaker 5:Now, if you, don't have a soprano here. We don't end the show right right now.
Speaker 4:There is a soprano here. After this commercial, we will meet some of our newest additions to the Wilberforce University Court.
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Speaker 4:Welcome back. Welcome back, see. Look, I told you I was going to have some friends when I came back. Now, look, I got extra friends. I think I got everybody, I don't know you know everybody get to push your buttons and then I mess totally up. So so you guys tell me, like, who you are and where you are from. I guess we could go counterclockwise or you just jump in.
Speaker 9:I'll start, I guess. All right, I'm Keisha Carter-Ellis, I'm from California and I am in my sophomore year at Wilberforce and I am a soprano. So that's just a little about me.
Speaker 4:Awesome, see, we always start, thank you, thanks, that's just how we roll in the soprano section. All right, who's next?
Speaker 1:My name, me okay, my name is Amaya Little. I am originally from a state of North Carolina, but I moved to Columbus, ohio, in 2023, 23, 24. I am a business entrepreneur. That's my major and I am also, oh Lord.
Speaker 4:Bless her heart. Oh Lord, Bless her heart.
Speaker 5:Listen, I want you to know. Listen, I have 22 autos each year.
Speaker 4:You better go in there and learn your music. You want to travel, yep.
Speaker 5:Because only about 10 or 11 of them going on tour. I'm telling you.
Speaker 4:Learn your music. When they're sleeping, you sing. All right, gentlemen, since y'all, let the ladies go.
Speaker 7:Hello, my name is Tavion Robinson. I'm from Cleveland, Ohio, my major is psychology and I'm tenor baritone.
Speaker 4:All right. Tenor baritone. You're from Cleveland. What high school you come from?
Speaker 7:Cleveland School of the Arts.
Speaker 4:I figured that I knew it. I don't know why, I just know things.
Speaker 5:Let me tell you about this one real quick, because he doesn't know that he is probably about to be on the fast track to being a student conductor.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah.
Speaker 5:Because him and his buddy and tell your buddy, he come to Wilberforce too, jj, they help direct the choirs at CSA, wow. So he don't know, he on the fast track, he gonna take some of that talent and use it and he gonna be able to sit in the background not doing nothing. Now, look, won't do that.
Speaker 4:I mean, I tried it too. It only worked for like two weeks.
Speaker 5:That's fine, that's it.
Speaker 4:All right, young man.
Speaker 2:Hello, my name is Dakota Hampton. I'm from Indianapolis, I am a transfer student going into my third year and I am a full-on music major. Anything music I'll do.
Speaker 4:Oh wow, indianapolis. That how um. One of my choir sisters used to say her name. We used to have to. You know, you'll learn that you're gonna have to tell people who you are and where you from, and I used to get mad because we didn't really go to date and, like you, go with confidence yeah, one day I lied I was like that's, I ain't from there. I said my name and I was from somewhere else. They didn't know.
Speaker 5:We used to do that all the time we were from the city that we were traveling in.
Speaker 4:Yeah, because they go crying, they be clapping and I'm like they ain't get none of that. So why, Wilberforce? I just had to ask.
Speaker 9:Me.
Speaker 4:Anybody.
Speaker 9:Why.
Speaker 4:Wubble Force.
Speaker 2:I'll start off. Okay, I chose Wubble Force because it was a brand new opportunity and a chance to branch out and leave, let's say, say, the normal I know behind. And uh, what was the doctor say, been trying to get at me for about a year now?
Speaker 5:so, oh wow, he finally got me he was supposed to be here last fall oh my, what school you got.
Speaker 4:Well, you might can't tell um, oh, I'm from.
Speaker 2:I I'm transferring from ball state university in muncie, one of the uh, one of the top Muse Ed programs over there, and that's where I was majoring in originally.
Speaker 4:Awesome, actually, my choir brother that really thinks he's my real brother. He transferred from Ball State to Titus Haig and he was. If you haven't heard of him or if you haven't seen him before CD.
Speaker 5:He'll be around, I'm sure he will. I need to call Titus to get all that music from him. Yeah, that's my bruh.
Speaker 4:So, but yeah, so, oh, congratulations. You made a really really good choice. So, yeah, that's happy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm very excited, excited and I'm excited to meet everyone else cool nobody else who next?
Speaker 9:so I chose will before us because my older sister and my older brother both are alums of will before us and I just seen their experience and what they would tell me about it and it's very family oriented, so I'm very happy with my decision.
Speaker 4:I love GlobalForce, so okay, what year did they come?
Speaker 9:out. My brother graduated in 2017, my sister like 2008, 2009.
Speaker 4:I want to say oh yeah, that was long gone. I'm sorry. Well, that's cool, though that's good, that's good stuff. So you legacy is that it did everybody go?
Speaker 1:yes no, I'm gonna go next. I chose because when dr saying he actually came to a church in Columbus and he was in that church and my choir teacher from my high school was telling me about his opportunities, and that's kind of how I like branched out and then I went to the open house in Wiggle Forest. I heard the band, I heard the choir and I was like, yeah, this is where I need to be and I love to sing, so why not?
Speaker 4:okay, makes sense. Thanks, I'm excited y'all got me one, can I? Can I go? When y'all go places, can I go? They're like y'all ain't gonna come down to texas.
Speaker 5:I'm gonna tell you how I'm going. Then I'm gonna tell you something.
Speaker 7:I'm gonna tell you something go ahead um, well, before I answer, just fun fact before um, the choir came to visit my school for our Arts Friday assembly. I wasn't even thinking about going to college and they came and they sung for us. Then he took me to the choir room and I was really moved by the encouragement of the other students and him and I said, yeah, I deserve to be here. And so we kept contact with them and I sent them some videos. I said, yeah, I deserve to be here. So we kept contact with them and I sent them some videos. I said, yeah, I'm going to go ahead and audition. And, of course, here I am now.
Speaker 4:Awesome. Now did you go to the send-off in Cleveland last week?
Speaker 7:I did not. I was supposed to, but I didn't. I was supposed to. I signed up and everything it didn't.
Speaker 4:Okay, you need to connect with Cleveland. Cleveland got some good alum. I'm just saying.
Speaker 5:That Cleveland alumni they listen, they take care of you, they do, we already listen, they've already.
Speaker 5:we're headed back to Aldersgate United Methodist this year and when I tell you, when we went this year, they showed up and it was palm sunday, but they showed up. There was green and gold, it was green and gold and maroon and gold, all through that audience, and they do not play about will before us. They love us and, like I said, they just take care of us, um, but but, like I said, this crew right here, along with about the 31 other that are coming in with them, I I know that once they start to get into flow of things and that sound starts to solidify, I'll be able to do just about anything with them that's awesome.
Speaker 4:so I'm just asking, because I know I know you are, because you went to perform in arts, like myself Are all of you all, like previous, have been in choir in high school previously and you read music or you just say, hey, I just want to do this.
Speaker 9:So I'm sorry, no no, no, go ahead actually, oh, I'm sorry, no, no, no, go ahead, go ahead. So I've actually been singing since I was in elementary school. Kindergarten. I started in my church choir and I just ran with it. I've loved to sing my whole life, so I'm just excited to start in college. Well, I sang in my first year, so again rejoined, I should say okay, yeah, the same thing for me.
Speaker 1:I started like singing when I was in church and my first song I actually sung was when I was five and it was like a childhood, like tv show song, and then ever since I just kept going with it. Every year I sung and I sang. I was like why not just continue going, like cool okay, well, I mean, I, I, he can't answer.
Speaker 4:We already know his history, but what about you?
Speaker 2:um, um, I have been in choir since I was in elementary school, but, uh, I've been singing since. I've been music oriented since I was young, to the point where I do both instrumental and vocal. I'm a brass player, oh cool.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I got a story about Dakota real quick.
Speaker 2:Oh no.
Speaker 5:Oh no, we were. We sing this song called Great and Marvelous by Wayne Buckner, who was a professor down at Oakwood, and we were starting to learn it spring semester. And in the midst of us learning it he came to visit and he thought he was just going to sit in the back and chill and I handed him sheet music and I sat him next to the section leader and I said oh no, no, no, no, no, if you come in here you're going to work. And so he kind of headed the game, because he knows most of that song by now.
Speaker 1:Just about.
Speaker 5:But this young man, he's got some training behind him and, like I said and Lord, I'm going to have to I don't know what I'm going to do with my tenor section, because they're going to be loud, they're.
Speaker 4:I don't know what I'm going to do with my tenor section, because they're going to be loud.
Speaker 5:You're going to learn to blend.
Speaker 4:You're going to learn real fast Tenors where it's at Just saying I'm not going to say nothing today because I already told you what section is number one. But, mr Cleveland, for the arts, I'm going to let you go. I know I shouldn't act like. I know your history, but what's your musical background?
Speaker 7:As far as the ladies, well, as far as I grew up Baptist as well. Grandma raised me in a church, and so I started with the Baptist choir and then worked my way up to CSA, where I've been all over the place.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, I grew up Baptist and now I'm like Baptocosto, because the church I go to is definitely not the church. Definitely not the church.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it's not the there's definitely a shift in in just about every denomination is is there.
Speaker 4:A lot of them are a lot more spirit filled than what we were used to coming up so I'm gonna take a quick, quick, quick commercial break and when we come back I'm gonna give y'all something to think about, because I really want to know what are you excited about that's going to happen this year?
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Speaker 4:Welcome back. Welcome back. I am here with my new friends and my old friend, dr C, and I asked them something before break, because we're about to get out of here real soon, but I really want them, before we go, to tell me what they're excited about. I'm going to go first, I probably should go last because you know I'm, but I'm excited that you all are going to attend the will before university one, and then you also are going to continue on. One of the most precious legacies that's very dear to my heart, um is the university course which changed my entire life, surprisingly. I know I graduated like what? Almost 30 years ago, but my choir siblings.
Speaker 4:I call them siblings and actually one was texting me right now. My choir siblings and I we taught like we still in school. So we have that bond. So it's a family and I know sometimes our family can be, you know, but at the end of the day, you know, get to know your choir mates in every phase of life. We have shown up for each other and, like I said, this was almost 30 years ago and we still have each other's back as if we had 1055 Bickett Road.
Speaker 4:So what excites you, anybody jump in.
Speaker 5:Well, I'm going to go first because I'm the ace boom coon, so let me share a couple of things. Number one I'm excited that we have grown the way that we have. When I came in last year I had about a solid 20, 25 students, depending on the day. By the end of last year we were at a solid 35. We had done our first full tour in over 10 years. We traveled extensively throughout the Midwest and now we have doubled. So the university course this year will be 72 strong. And we are, and we get ready to hit some, some amazing spots. We're doing an orchestra piece this fall with the Miami Valley Symphony, we are going to Carnegie Hall in the spring and then Mo we going on the East Coast for tour. This year we're going to Mother Bethel.
Speaker 4:I've been there.
Speaker 5:Yeah, we're going to Mother Bethel and I'm excited about just getting these kids out there and letting the world see how amazing they are, letting the world see how strong they are and that the next generation is ready to step up to the plate. Oh yeah, that's what I'm excited about I'm excited y'all want a mother.
Speaker 4:The acoustics that, well y'all find out we have now they got quiet on me I'll start.
Speaker 1:So I'm more excited for the connections. Like you said, it's family oriented. I'm excited for not only the connections with my teachers, the administrator, but I'm ready to see, if I get picked hopefully I will to see everything and just like be out of my comfort zone, to try new things and learn more music that I never learned before. And yeah, it's just. It's really a a new thing for all of us, but mainly for me too, because I've been doing this for like a while. But, yeah, awesome that's awesome.
Speaker 4:And don't be nervous, sweetheart, I promise you. All you gotta do is learn your stuff, and if somebody act like they don't know their words or whatever, you just step in. That'll keep you on the tour bus. Anybody else?
Speaker 9:um, I'll go next. So I'm really excited, like she said, to just connect, meet new people and honestly just perfect my craft, like I really love to sing. So being a part of the choir is just gonna help me expand and better myself.
Speaker 4:So and she's a soprano, you like. I gotta emphasize the section that she's in a second soprano, which means more work she got it, though she got it go ahead.
Speaker 2:I want to say the thing that I'm most excited for is to more expand my musical palette. I would say the thing that I'm most excited for is to more expand my musical palette, I might say, because fun fact I'm not actually from the heart of Indianapolis, I'm from Noblesville, which is like right outside of Indianapolis, which is also a predominantly white school that I went to. So and I just say Indianapolis because it's easier for people to know but, like I've done just about everything from classical jazz, pop, show, choir, marching band, any, any ensemble you can possibly think of. And once I found out, what was it when I talked to Dr, say about, like you know what's coming up the upcoming year. Say about, like you know what's coming up for the upcoming year. He said gospel and opera, which I'm very well, uh, I know of them, but I've never had really had the opportunity to be able to possibly perform in them, and that's what I'm really excited and looking forward to, especially on top of the family and friends and everything.
Speaker 5:but yeah, that's oh, I forgot to tell you. So on top of University Chorus we have five small ensembles oh, wow so you bring your micro quartet so we have men's ensemble, women's ensemble, we have a group called the Four Sins. Which is you ever seen? Pitch Perfect, perfect, we're doing a Pitch Perfect group. And then we have 1856 Singers which is you ever seen Pitch Perfect?
Speaker 4:We're doing a Pitch Perfect group Okay.
Speaker 5:And then we have 1856 Singers, which is the Jubilee Singers, and then we have, and then this year we are adding Opera Workshop. So yeah, the work is about to begin and we're doing a concert version of Poor G and Best is Far.
Speaker 4:Wow, when is that? I might have to fly up there for that one that's in November.
Speaker 5:That's in November.
Speaker 4:You keep trying to get me in this cold weather. I don't have a winter coat.
Speaker 5:I need that time to get them right, get them ready, because you can't get up there and say and it don't sound right, you can't do that, it's not gonna happen I got a reputation because y'all first you know premiere year was amazing, so you can't go nowhere but up no, just saying I can't go backwards, all right.
Speaker 4:All right.
Speaker 7:Besides the networking and the connecting with one another excuse me for this I'm just excited to see what God is about to do. As Dr Say said, the choir has expanded and I truly believe there is a meaning behind God enlarging the territory of this choir, and so I believe that we're getting ready to go some places. So I'm excited to see what he's about to do.
Speaker 4:Awesome, and that's true. That's true. You got to overflow now, so you got to work to do and I'm extremely excited. I'm excited for all of you, all that are going to actually guess what y'all. My niece is going to Wilmington Forest this year. She's a freshman. She's not in the choir, though. I wouldn't miss Dr Sane, don't talk about me, she might have been okay.
Speaker 5:Come on. No, I won't do that.
Speaker 4:Okay. I'll trust the judgment Nah. They'll be like really Mo.
Speaker 5:I'm going to say this I'm going to shut up, I'm going to turn, I'm going to shut up. So every year, I pick a theme. Last year, our theme was Jehovah Sabbat. Okay, this year our theme is there Remaineth the Rest. And so our theme song is there Remaineth the Rest, by Donna Lawrence, and it just speaks to you know how God is completing a work that he started many, many, many, many, many years ago. And so this year we are going forward with that theme and to encourage people that you know, don't worry about what you're going through. God has already completed, it's already come to an end. All you've got to do is now walk in his power. You've got to walk in his authority and do the amazing things that God has for you and walk in his purpose that he has for you. And so, to speak to Tavia, what Tavia said yeah, this is, this is a huge year, you know. Spend some time fasting, spend some time praying over this year, and I think it's going to be phenomenal. I'm ready.
Speaker 4:Awesome, awesome. Well, thank you guys for coming and stopping by. I've been following you all. I have been, even though I'm not always in the area. I'm always around. So if you need anything, especially Mr Cleveland, you need to reach out to the Cleveland alum Because actually they put something out the other day. Any alum that um have no people going to what before it's from this area, so you might want to get in that chat like might be missing out on some lessons, but columbus have I don't know if columbus have a send off. I know day send-off was last week as well.
Speaker 4:So we do things even though you aren't in Texas. I mean, if you need me, I'm always around. But thank you for coming. I enjoyed you all. I wish you much success. Don't be so overwhelmed, you know. Just take it, you know, one day at a time when you get there and enjoy it. If any period of my life I wish I could go back to is being on campus because I didn't have no bills and I could just do what I want. Just saying so it's been fun, but we gotta go. Thank my guests. The uh new additions to wilberforce university choir. I can't call uh dr. Say against, no more. He's been here so much. He you know he family like photos, but we will be tracking you. Now, dr, say you, if somebody wanted to support the wilfords university choir, how can they support um, either financially or how can they follow along?
Speaker 5:so there's a couple ways that you can. You can support us financially. The main way is to just come to one of our concerts. Everybody always take up an offer for us, and you know. And that money goes towards scholarships, that money goes towards our travel and expenses, that money goes toward making sure that our students have everything that they need. But the main way that you can do it is through the Wilberforce University website. If you go to wilberforceedu and go to the institutional advancement page, there is a donation link and when you go into donation link, all you have to do is select the choir and that money will be earmarked for Wilber Forest University course. Now, if you want to know more about us and where we're going, you can follow us on Facebook Willow Forest University course, is our page, and then on Instagram at Woo Course 1856.
Speaker 4:Awesome, awesome. Well, it's been fun. You see, I have, you know, drc here. He brought some of his new additions here, so I am extremely excited and you know, if y'all need me, call me, but when y'all come into Texas, we'll talk about that next time we'll talk about that.
Speaker 5:It's coming. It's been on my mind. Coming down south it's been on my mind. Coming down south has been on my mind, but it's coming All right?
Speaker 4:Well, thank you again for coming, and we really appreciate you and anything we can do for you here at A Better Chance Television or A Better Chance for you, futures Incorporated. Let us know, guys, if you haven't voted for the Takesisha, a david scholarship. Those polls are open, so follow that competition too. So, yeah, see you till next time. And also follow the wilberforce university choir. They got a big season. I'm trying to see if they need me to be like a you know poster. Like a you know poster, come on.
Speaker 5:Choir mother. We still got Ms Brown, by the way.
Speaker 4:That's my choir mama, that's mama. She will forever be my choir mama. So yeah, see you next time and thank you for coming.
Speaker 5:All right.
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