Mar 9, 2017 2 min read

The Rev. Trini Lopez Massie will be the featured performer when California University of Pennsylvania’s Young and Gifted gospel choir hosts its annual Joyfest gospel concert at 7 p.m. March 25 in Steele Hall Mainstage Theatre on the Cal U. campus.

The University of Pittsburgh gospel choir and the Bethlehem Baptist Church youth choir will join Massie and Cal U.’s gospel singers onstage.

Massie is the minister of worship at Mt. Ararat Baptist Church in Pittsburgh, where he is responsible for all music performed in the main sanctuary, as well as the young adult choir and the church’s Praise and Worship Ministry.

Massie has shared the stage with a variety of recognized musicians, and he has facilitated workshops and ministered in concerts throughout the United States and in Canada, Europe, Micronesia and the Caribbean.

“The choir is excited to have someone of Trini Massie’s caliber … coming to sing with us,” said Dr. Randy Tillmutt, director of the Young and Gifted gospel choir at California and an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Music.

“He is known to have a standard of excellence and to pull the best out of singers,” Tillmutt said.

Admission to Joyfest is free. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.