Choir prepared for concert this Friday

Kevin Lambert, MHCC’s choir director, talked about his excitement for the Chamber Choir’s concert at 7:30 tonight  in the Visual Arts Theatre.

“It’s an Americana-themed concert, meaning all of the text(s) are in English and all of the composers are American,” he said.

After laughing about the different types of music that would be in the concert, Lambert  said he plans to end the show with a country song by the Zac Brown Band. There will also be classical, Broadway, and gospel music. “I do try to have every concert I do have a wide variety of music,” he said. This concert is meant to be “a kaleidoscope vision of what American music is like,” he said.

A particular type of music being presented that Lambert really enjoys is some pop music, mixed with soul fusion. “The artist I like the most in that genre is James Morrison,” he said. As a 30-year-old singer-songwriter, Morrison “has a really raspy, older-sounding voice, but in a really dorky white man’s body.”

As for his students’ preparation for the choir event, “they all work their tails off,” he said.

“The fact that we’re ending with a Zac Brown Band song is – I think – pretty cool,” Lambert said. He hopes to fill stands tonight and give the singers their due support.