The Thiel Choir will take to the highways in March 2007 for its annual spring tour.

Under the direction of Dr. Michael Bray and accompanied by Kathryn A. Gray, the 49-voice choir continues to perform a largely a cappella program in Lutheran churches throughout the eastern half of the United States.  A European tour to northern Italy and Austria is being planned for May 2008. 

The concert will feature works by American composers Mark Sirett, Daniel Pinkham, Vijay Singh, Alice Parker, Leo Nestor, Randall Thompson, Gwyneth Walker; Lutheran composers F. Melius Christiansen and Robert Wetzler; and arrangements of hymns and spirituals by Andre Thomas and Moses Hogan. 

Tour dates and venues are:

• Friday, March 2:  7:30 p.m., St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 71 N. Gallatin Ave., Uniontown, Pa.

• Saturday, March 3: 7:30 p.m., St. Paul Lutheran Church, 721 12th Ave., Huntington, W. Va.

• Sunday, March 4: 7 p.m., Christ Lutheran Church, 9212 Taylorsville Road, Jeffersontown, Ky.

• Monday, March 5: 7 p.m., St. John’s Lutheran Church, 3259 McGavock Pike, Nashville, Tenn.

• Wednesday, March 7: 7:30 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, 403 Birdsong St., Thomaston, Ga.

• Thursday, March 8:  7:30 p.m., St. Paul Lutheran Church, 961 Trail Ridge Road, Aiken, S.C.

• Friday, March 9: 7:30 p.m., St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 1001 Queens Road, Charlotte, N.C.

• Saturday, March 10: 7 p.m., St. Mark Lutheran Church, 118 Old York-Hampton Highway, Yorktown, Va.

• Friday, March 16: 7:30 p.m., Home Concert, Penn and Clinton streets, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Greenville

For more information about any of the performances, please contact Dr. Michael Bray at 724.589.2149 or e-mail him at mbray@thiel.edu.

Founded in 1866, Thiel College in Greenville, Pa., is a liberal arts, sciences and professional studies college related to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.