{"id":2713,"date":"2012-04-21T08:23:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T13:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2017-12-08T15:29:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T20:29:40","slug":"happy-birthday-bcce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=2713","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday BCCE"},"content":{"rendered":"
“I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.” Psalm 34:1<\/em><\/h6>\n
\"BCCE

BCCE with Kirk Franklin<\/p><\/div>\n

The legendary gospel collective known as the Black Celestial Choral Ensemble,\u00a0or BCCE,\u00a0celebrates its 35th anniversary this weekend.\u00a0\u00a0 The BCCE will perform a concert on Saturday in Hendricks Chapel that will include an alumni section\u00a0as well as guest directors.<\/p>\n

Here is a small collection of photographs that have appeared on the SIF site in the past seven years or so from their various annointed\u00a0performances.<\/p>\n

\"BCCE

BCCE at the Cora Thomas Gospel Extravaganza<\/p><\/div>\n

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BCCE at Hendricks Chapel<\/p><\/div>\n

We\u00a0got a chance to speak with BCCE Director Byron Canada\u00a0before the concert,\u00a0 and he talked about the history of the group and the significance of this particular anniversary.<\/p>\n

\"Byron

Byron Canada, Director, BCCE<\/p><\/div>\n

<\/object>BCCE-Byron Canada<\/a> by SIF<\/a><\/p>\n
\"BCCE

BCCE under the direction of B. Canada<\/p><\/div>\n

Here is a song BCCE performed at this year’s Syracuse University Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration in the Carrier Dome.<\/div>\n

<\/object>BCCE-Public Performance<\/a> by SIF<\/a><\/p>\n
\"BCCE:

BCCE: Duet<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.” Psalm 34:1 The legendary gospel collective known as the Black Celestial Choral Ensemble,\u00a0or BCCE,\u00a0celebrates its 35th anniversary this weekend.\u00a0\u00a0 The BCCE will perform a concert on Saturday in Hendricks Chapel that will include an alumni section\u00a0as well as guest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1786,827,834,1950,826,135,1152,4999,366,107,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23732,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/23732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}