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Invite Holiday Guests to Sing Along With UK Opera, Alltech's 'Celebration of Song' on WKYT

A performance of "Let it Snow" by UK's Alltech Scholars at the 2014 "Celebration of Song" concert. Video courtesy of Alltech.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 23, 2015) — Local TV station WKYT will broadcast the 10th anniversary "Celebration of Song" sing-along holiday concert featuring University of Kentucky Opera Theatre vocalists leading the community in popular carols. The concert programming will air twice on Christmas at 12:35 a.m. and again at noon Friday, Dec. 25, on WKYT (Insight Cable Channel 9).

Conducted by Director of UK Opera Theatre Everett McCorvey, "Celebration of Song" featured performances of beloved carols by award-winning vocalists from UK Opera Theatre.

Lending their talents to the celebration this year were several guest artists, including Miss Kentucky Clark Janell Davis, a UK sophomore majoring in voice performance and political science; Zeb Harrison and Sounds of Praise; Professor of Voice and Endowed Chair in Vocal Performance Cynthia Lawrence; UK Artist-in-Residence Gregory Turay; UK Blue Steel; and the Lexington Singers' Children's Choir. WKYT Anchor Barbara Bailey hosted the free public concerts held Dec. 13, at The Square.

Each year "Celebration of Song," presented in conjunction with Alltech, encourages the Central Kentucky community to become part of the concert and sing along to a great selection of well-known seasonal songs and carols.

UK Opera Theatre is part of the UK School of Music at the UK College of Fine Arts. The School of Music has garnered national recognition for high-caliber education in opera, choral and instrumental music performance, as well as music education, composition, and theory, and music history.

For more information on "Celebration of Song," visit www.celebrationofsong.org.

 
MEDIA CONTACT: Whitney Hale, 859-257-8716; whitney.hale@uky.edu