The Callaway Singers will be performing their annual holiday concert Thursday and Sunday at William Woods University.
The group's free "A Touch of Gospel" concert will be taking place at the Dulany Auditorium and is open to the public at 7 p.m. Thursday and again at 2 p.m. Sunday. Additionally, students from the North Callaway High School chamber choir will join the Callaway Singers as guests.
"We've worked really hard to bring this program to the community, and the singers have worked every Thursday night for the past 12 weeks on it," the group's director Marlene Railton said.
The theme of this year's program has more of an emphasis on "the gospel" than it has in years past, Railton said. Railton began the Christmas concert program in the fall of 2006 and said the group is composed primarily of community members from Fulton, with a few "defectors" from Jefferson City and Columbia.
"We're going to share the story of baby Jesus throughout all of our songs," Railton said.
They will perform nine songs and will have their guests from NCHS join them for two of the songs. Railton said there are currently 50 members in the choir, with five being students from Fulton High School, one from NCHS and four from WWU.
Railton said the group will be accepting free-will donations at the door, and half of the donations will go to the NCHS vocal music program.
She said she and the singers are looking forward to the program as a whole and sharing it with the community. She said this year's program is, in her opinion, the best one they've had yet.
"My singers have said they think this is the best program we've done to date, and many of them have been there since the beginning," Railton said.