AUC Schools Offer a Near-Century Holiday Tradition

For nearly 100 years, Morehouse and Spelman colleges have wowed audiences with the annual Christmas carol concert. Always held the first weekend in December, this year being Dec. 2-4, Morehouse-Spelman Christmas carol concert features traditional, spiritual, pop and original Christmas favorites.

According to Spelman College archives, it was a chilly December night when the first Spelman-Morehouse Christmas carol concert was held at Spelman in Sisters Chapel; however, former Spelman president Florence Read writes in her book, “The Story of Spelman College”: “The first Spelman-Morehouse Christmas Carol Concert was sung in 1928, in holly-bedecked Sisters Chapel….”

From that first one-night event to today’s three-night launch into “the most wonderful time of the year,” the annual free-to-all-who-will-come event is an enduring Southern tradition.

Don’t miss the 90^th Annual Morehouse-Spelman Christmas Carol Concert

Kickoff Performance
Friday, Dec. 2, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel
Morehouse College Campus

Second Performance
Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Sisters Chapel
Spelman College Campus
A complimentary ticket is required for this performance only.

Final Performance
Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016, 6 p.m.
Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel
Morehouse College Campus