Gospel Program at A-B Tech

Robbie J. Williams, guest soloist.

Staff Reports

The Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College Minority Student Leadership Academy and the A-B Tech Diversity Committee will sponsor “An Afternoon of Gospel Praise” Sunday, February 13, 2011, at 3 p.m., in A-B Tech’s Ferguson Auditorium. The program is part of the organizations’ Black History Month Celebration.

Robbie J. Williams, a local recording and performance artist in Asheville and Western North Carolina will be guest soloist. Ms. Williams has recorded four CDs with local recording studios and has collaborated on another with a group called “The Prodigal Sons of the Buncombe County Correction Center,” co-founded by Chaplin Steve Plemmons.

Ms. Williams is a motivational speaker and co-founder and Executive Director of “One Youth at a Time,” a program serving at-risk youth between eight and 18 years old. She received a BS in Business Management and Accounting from Shaw University and earned a diploma in Religious Studies from Mars Hill College Access Program. She is also continuing her studies toward a graduate degree.

Ms. Williams attends the Greater New Zion Missionary Baptist Church in
Fletcher and has received many awards for her community services
including:
•    Governor’s Award for 100 Distinguished Women of NC
•    Woman of the Year
•    Outstanding Youth Leaders
•    Martin Luther King, Jr. Award
•    TWIN-Women of Influence

The following WNC choirs will also perform on the program:
•    Garrison Chapel Baptist Church, Tryon
•    St. Luke CME Church, Tryon
•    Thermal Belt Friendship Council Unity Choir, Tryon
•    Nazareth First Baptist Church, Asheville
•    New Mount Olive Baptist Church, Asheville
•    New Salem Missionary Baptist Church, Black Mountain

The concert is free to the public. For more information, contact Dr.
Joseph Fox, Co-advisor, A-B Tech Minority Student Leadership Academy, at
(828) 254-1921, Ext.7664.