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    • 2024 Awards Banquet Highlights
    • 2024 Fanfest Convention Review
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The 2024 IGMA "Fanfest" Convention Review
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The 2024 Indiana Gospel Music Fanfest Convention was IGMA's 8th Annual Convention, and this year we welcomed The Kingsmen Quartet, a premier fan favorite for over 50 years.

Our gracious hosts, as they have been for the past seven years, Pastor Ron Bridgewater and East Columbus Christian Church, provided an excellent and welcoming venue for all our activities.

A Convention feature that continues to be popular with the IGMA artists was the Master Class conducted on Saturday afternoon by headliner, The Kingsmen Quartet. The quartet and manager Brandon Reese shared some of their precious "down" time prior to the evening concert to answer questions off-the-cuff for over an hour. These were thrown at them by our local artists concerning real-life issues that they deal with on a daily basis while living life on the road. The Kingsmen currently do about 175 singing dates per year.

Enjoy this photo gallery from the entire weekend events.

All photos courtesy of IGMA Photographer Mike Hale.


​Saturday Headliners:  The Kingsmen
   

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Our headliner, the "Mighty Kingsmen!"
Tenor- Thomas Nalley
Lead - Cole Watson
Baritone - Alan Kendall
Bass - Brady Jones
NOTE!   Hover cursor over each image above and below for caption


Thursday Night Showcase Artists

IGMA President Stan & Treasurer Jeannette Pederson took care of all the guests each night
Pianist Amos Plaster provided pre-concert music each night
Jill Lovins kicked off the festivities on Thursday that set the tone for the weekend
Dan & Beth, The Sinclairs, put on a power-packed performance
Connie Wright put heart and soul into her songs
L to R - Ron, Lauren & Caleb make up CLR Trio from the host church
By Faith Quartet performed for the first time at Fanfest to an appreciative crowd
Ginny Spillman, another first time Fanfest performer, showed her experience and versatility of vocal stylings
Witness Quartet is a long time Fanfest favorite with that full quartet sound
Judith Montgomery blessed the audience with her first Fanfest showcase
IGMA fan favorite Mark Vice put on his usual show-stopper performance
Mark Vice invited host Pastor Ron Bridgewater and MC Eric Shaw to join him for a special number to wrap up the evening

Friday Night Showcase Artists

Jeff Bridgewater, along with Mark Anderson, provided excellent sound for all the groups
Mark Anderson worked seamlessly alongside Jeff Bridgewater on sound all weekend
A trio of Host/Pastor Ron, MC Eric and Banjoist Caleb opened the night on Friday
Rick Clayton presented some wonderfully soulful songs
Scott Mauldin's rich baritone was truly showcased
Kristen Stanton brought her usual high energy performance to a receptive audience
Joe Renshaw traveled from Michigan to showcase his tremendous tenor voice
Mike Haemmerle performed his original tunes which are topping the DJ radioplay charts in Nashville
The Worthens made their debut at Fanfest. Their contagious enthusiasm was returned by the audience.
Kristina Locher, from Ohio, returned to Fanfest with her powerful vocals
The Dave Melton Family Singers managed to fit Fanfest into their busy travel schedule. Their original material delighted the crowd
MC Eric Shaw provided entertaining banter each evening. You never know what he is going to do or say!

Saturday Afternoon Master Class

Event coordinator Eric Shaw gave a welcome and charge to the Kingsmen to begin the Master Class
Kingsmen spokesman & baritone Alan Kendall gave a light hearted answer to one question in the Master Class session
Tenor Thomas Nalley answers a question during the Master Class while the other Kingsmen including manager Brandon Reese (far right) look on

Saturday Night Showcase Artists

The ECCC house bluegrass band kicked off the Saturday night program
Tenor Joe Renshaw filled in admirably with the Revival Road Quartet for this one evening
Victorious Trio brought their high energy showcase to a responsive crowd
Devin Cunningham pulled out all the stops in his showcase warming up the crowd for the headliners!

Saturday Night Finale

After their final number The Kingsmen invited all the singers to join them for a big finale.
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