Take 6

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Take 6, the Grammy-winning R&B gospel group, will perform in the Concert Hall of the Moody Music Building at The University of Alabama on Sept. 10 at 7:30 p.m. as part of UA’s School of Music Celebrity Series. The performance is sponsored by the Gloria Narramore Moody Foundation.

This award-winning Christian sextet broke new ground in a cappella in the 1980s, paving the way for the popular revival of R&B vocal groups. Their jazz harmonies, original songs and vocal pyrotechnics represent some of the best a cappella ever recorded.

Take 6 evolved from a modest start in 1980 as an a cappella gospel group and is characterized by boldness in their music and inventiveness. Their signing has had a profound influence on modern pop music. They embrace constant change in expression and performance, and their music is a gospel, jazz and R&B-inflected statement of faith. The one constant for Take 6 is their spiritual foundations and their richly-layered and uniquely-fashioned harmonies.

The group has won seven Grammy’s, five Doves (Gospel Music Awards), Best Jazz Vocal Group honors for four consecutive years in Downbeat’s prestigious Reader’s and Critic’s Poll, a Soul Train Music Award, and BRE (Black Radio Exclusive) Vocal Group of the Year, amid countless other musical and humanitarian citations.

The performance will be in the Concert Hall of the Moody Music Building on the UA campus. Celebrity Series subscriptions are $72 for main floor and first balcony and $55 for second balcony and main floor Rows A and B. Single ticket prices are $22 and $15 for general audiences and $7 for students with valid IDs. For ticket information or an immediate credit card purchase, call the School of Music Box Office at 205/348-7111.

About the Gloria Narramore Moody Foundation: The Moody Foundation was founded in 1990 by Gloria Moody and her husband, the late Tuscaloosa businessman Frank McCorkle Moody, to support the arts and music.

In addition to bringing world-class performers to Alabama, the Moody Foundation has endowed scholarships at UA and has supported arts organizations elsewhere in the United States.

This is the 16th year that the Moody Foundation has brought an internationally acclaimed talent to Alabama and underwritten the performances of world-class performers such as the Guarneri String Quartet, pianist Awadagin Pratt, soprano Benita Valente of the New York Metropolitan Opera, violinist Itzhak Perlman, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma with pianist Emanuel Ax in a joint recital at The University of Alabama.

The School of Music is a department of the College of Arts and Sciences, the University’s largest division and the largest public liberal arts college in the state, with approximately 5,500 undergraduates and 1,000 graduate students. The College has received national recognition for academic excellence, and the College’s students have been selected for many of the nation’s top academic honors, including 13 Rhodes Scholarships, 15 Goldwater Scholarships, seven Truman Scholarships, one Udall Scholarship and 16 memberships on USA Today’s Academic All-American teams.