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Kentucky Wesleyan Singers to perform on campus with famed Bluegrass band

The Kentucky Wesleyan Singers will host and perform with the Chuck Nation Band, called “the South’s best Bluegrass band,” on Feb. 20 and 21 at 7 p.m. in the Jack T. Wells ’77 Activity Center at 3300 Frederica St.

The band will begin the concert with their own set of original and traditional Bluegrass tunes and the Kentucky Wesleyan Singers will then join the band for the performance of “Come Away to the Skies: A High, Lonesome Mass” with Visiting Assistant Professor Patrick Ritsch conducting. He is director of Choral Activities and Music Education.

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Written by Tim Sharp and Wes Ramsay, “Come Away to the Skies” is an extraordinary piece of sacred music transcending time, geography and genre. This setting of the Ordinary of the Roman Mass combines American frontier folk hymns from the “Sacred Harp” and “Southern Harmony” in a bluegrass idiom. The folk hymns used come primarily from the Scots-Irish theological and musical traditions found uniquely in the American South and published in these hymn collections. Such hymn collections flourished throughout the American South in the mid-nineteenth century and are repositories of some of the greatest hymns of that era. (more…)

Kentucky Wesleyan College to host “It Goes with You: An Evening on Kilimanjaro” with Brandon Cox ’10

The Keith and Vickie Sharber Communication Arts Program at Kentucky Wesleyan College will host a free public lecture, “It Goes with You: An Evening on Kilimanjaro,” Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. in the Panther Room at the Jack T. Wells ’77 Activity Center (3300 Frederica Street).

Local adventurer Brandon Cox ‘10 will share photographs and stories from his October expedition to Tanzania to raise awareness and funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The lecture will combine mountaineering, psychology, personal development, public relations and digital marketing.

Cox, a 2010 Kentucky Wesleyan College graduate, marketing and communications professional and adjunct professor of communication arts, will discuss his planning, training and preparation to climb Africa’s highest peak. The talk will also detail the public relations and marketing strategies he employed to promote the project and ask for donations to St. Jude.

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A look back at Homecoming and Family Weekend 2024 presented by Owensboro Health

Homecoming & Family Weekend 2024 presented by Owensboro Health was a weekend that won’t soon be forgotten! Enjoy the links to the photos/live streamed events and the 2024 Alumni Hall of Fame and Outstanding Alumnus of the Arts honoree videos. Special thanks to our friends at Charles Mahlinger Photography and Wonder Boy Media for capturing these moments for us.

SAVE THE DATE: Homecoming & Family Weekend 2025 will be Oct. 3-4, 2025!
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