From The Trussville Tribune staff reports
BIRMINGHAM – Grammy Award winners Yolanda Adams and Dr. Henry Panion III will perform at the historic Lyric Theatre on Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 7 p.m.
The one-night-only Believe! A Night of Hope concert, featuring the gospel music legend, benefits ill and injured children treated at Children’s of Alabama, the state’s only freestanding pediatric hospital.
Sponsorship packages are priced from $1,000 to $10,000 and include VIP seating at the concert and a meet and greet at the Lyric immediately after the performance.
A limited number of individual general admission tickets ranging from $55 to $65 and single VIP tickets priced at $100 are available through Ticketmaster.
For sponsorship opportunities or ticket information, contact Andrea Martin at 205-638-9017 or andrea.martin@childrensal.org.
After 12 albums, five Grammys and performing for several U. S. presidents, Yolanda Adams still wows audiences the world over. Adams is renowned for pioneering the blend of modern gospel music with soul and jazz. For decades, she has empowered fans through her inspirational and contemporary music.
Adams has been hailed as the most versatile contemporary gospel singer since Aretha Franklin. Her brilliant albums have earned her multiple awards from music’s highest honors such as the Stellars, Grammys, BMI Awards, Soul Train Awards, NAACP Image Awards, BET Awards and more. In addition to being a gospel superstar, she has reigned on radio airwaves for more than 10 years as the host of her own show, “The Yolanda Adams Morning Show,” which is heard in over 60 markets nationally.
Her natural love for community initiatives and the well-being of youth is just as captivating as her singing. She served as a spokesperson for the FILA Corporation’s Operation Rebound program, which addressed the concerns of inner city schoolchildren. In 2016, former President Barack Obama presented Adams with the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award for her lifelong commitment to building a stronger nation through volunteer service with the Corporation for National Community Service. While she is grateful for her success, Adams’s greatest achievement comes from being a mother and great example to her daughter.
Grammy Award winner Dr. Henry Panion III is a noted composer, arranger, conductor, educator and professor in the Department of Music at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Panion has produced, arranged and conducted for a number of artists, including Stevie Wonder, The Winans, Aretha Franklin, Carrie Underwood, Ruben Studdard, Chet Atkins, Ellis Marsalis Jr. with the SuperJazz Big Band, Chaka Khan, the Lionel Hampton Orchestra and the Blind Boys of Alabama. He founded the UAB Recording Studio, where award-winning recordings by the UAB Gospel Choir and UAB Jazz Ensemble were produced.
Adams and Panion will be joined by guest soloist Marissa Luna. A student of Amy Murphy Studios and the Alabama School of Fine Arts, Marissa Luna recently signed with Jan Smith Studios. As Miss Tennessee Valley’s Outstanding Teen, Marissa advocates for Children’s Miracle Network, which benefits Children’s Hospitals. Through her collaboration with artist Marcus Fetch, she has raised over $5,000 for the program.