CHICAGO GOSPEL FESTIVAL offers performances on two stages in Grant Park: the Early/Day Stage (Jackson and Lake Shore Drive) and the Petrillo Music Shell
(Columbus and Jackson). For information call 312-744-3315.
Saturday
Early/Day Stage
NOON Canton Spirituals
12:40 Law & Order Gospel Singers
1:45 rapper Mike-E
2:30 Tyrone Dickerson & the Christian Fellowship Choir
3:10 Walkin’ by Faith
3:35 Men of Standard
4:10 B. Chase Williams & the ShaBach Choir
Petrillo Music Shell
5:00 Reverend Isaac Whittmon & the Greater Metropolitan Church of Christ Choir
5:35 Willie Wilson & Company
6:10 Voices of Tomorrow with Vickie Winans
7:05 Reed’s Temple Choir & For His Glory Singers with Albertina Walker
8:00 Richard Smallwood & Vision
9:00 John P. McKee & the New Life Community Choir
Sunday
Early/Day Stage
NOON Chicago Gospel Choir
with Rosalind Sanders
12:30 Willie Neal Johnson & the Keynotes
1:15 Trina Davis & Company
1:50 Franklin Avenue Baptist
Church Mass Choir
2:40 First Chicago Employee
Gospel Choir
3:05 Saxophonist John Amato
3:35 Inheritance
4:05 Victory Travelers
Petrillo Music Shell
5:00 Canton Spirituals
6:20 Ozella Clifton, LuDella Evans Reid, Ora Lee Hopkins-Sanmon, Nash Schaffer, Reverend Stanley Keeble, Eddie Robinson & Fred Nelson III
7:05 Chicago State University Gospel Choir, Kennedy-King Community College Gospel Chorus, Fisk University Jubilee Singers
8:05 Chicago Argo Singers
8:30 Bobby Jones & New Life
9:25 Fred Hammond & Radical for Christ
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): Fred Hammond photo.