Greenville Gay Men’s Chorus prepares for holiday concert – WYFF4 Greenville

The Greenville Gay Men’s Chorus is gearing up for its holiday concert on Dec. 9. It involves weekly rehearsal sessions that start in September.”We plan way ahead, and we’re practicing every Tuesday getting ready for this big event,” said Shelton Love, artistic director and conductor.Just like how each key on the piano plays a different tune, the event hopes to include everyone, because we all sing to different notes in life.”Music has a lot of healing qualities, both emotionally and physically,” said Barry Brown, a baritone in the chorus.Music helps through the peaks in life, like helping someone discover who they are.”We had one of our members that actually came out to his true identity and it was a beautiful thing to have him sit at the piano and say, you know, this is who I am,” Brown said. It also inspires through the valleys in life, like the deadly shooting at an LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs.”There are sleepless nights, there is agonizing moments that you wonder, where will it raise its ugly head again,” Brown said.The tragedy at Club Q is encouraging the group to sing louder to honor those who died.”If we now sit back and are cowering at home, because we’re feared for, we’re fearing for our lives. we’re not, we’re not doing anything to make their lives worth it,” said Shelton Love.The group is uniting to make the world a better place. Their plan is to include everyone because a community is made up of everyone.”We want everyone to feel included, no one’s ever left behind or left out,” Barry Brown said.