Canada’s Double Portion from North Battleford will serve a feast of gospel music.
A group of dedicated volunteers has been working for a quarter of a century to bring a joyful noise to Granum every July.
The Willow Creek Gospel Music Jamboree marks its 25th anniversary on July 19-21.
Admission is by free will offering.
The mission of the Willow Creek Gospel Music Jamboree Association is to present the gospel through music, valuing interfaith relationships, and Christian heritage.
The association promotes a family friendly community through the jamboree, which provides a venue for developing western Canadian Christian musicians.
Performing at the jamboree this year are the Pilkey Sisters, Freedom Singers, Canada’s Double Portion and The Tapleys.
Simon Ivascu, Steven Ivascu and Wesley Pop fled their native Romania to avoid mandatory army service, being conscientious objectors.
They formed Freedom Singers and began performing southern gospel in 2000.
Canada’s Double Portion from North Battleford, Sask. is an eight-piece gospel band made up of parents Duncan and Debbie Hemmerling and six of their 10 children.
The Pilkey Sisters — Harmony, Destiny and Britteny — began performing as children and now sing southern gospel.
The Tapleys are a southern and country Gospel band with a ministry focus based out of Bowden.
Darrel Janz returns as master of ceremonies.
The weekend gets under way with a chili supper at 5 p.m. Friday, July 19 in The Homesteader.
The Pilkey Sisters take the stage at 7 p.m. for the opening concert, followed by performances by The Tapleys and Canada’s Double Portion.
The Pilkey Sisters will return to the stage to close out the opening concert.
Saturday, July 20 begins at 9 a.m. with breakfast burritos available for purchase until 11 a.m.
The morning concert starts at 10 a.m. featuring Freedom Singers, The Tapleys and Canada’s Double Portion.
Cheyenne Neufeld will lead praise and worship to open the afternoon concert at 1 p.m.
Freedom Singers, The Tapleys, Canada’s Double Portion and The Pilkey Sisters will perform in the afternoon concert, with Freedom Singers returning to the stage to close out the concert.
Beef-on-a-bun will be available in The Homesteader from 5-6:30 p.m.
The Saturday evening concert gets under way at 7 p.m. with The Pilkey Sisters, The Tapleys, Freedom Singers and Canada’s Double Portion scheduled to perform.
The Granum Christian Reformed Church will provide a free pancake breakfast from 8-10 a.m. on Sunday, July 21.
Cheyenne Neufeld will lead praise and worship beginning at 9 a.m. Sunday.
An interdenominational church service gets under way at 10 a.m. Sunday, with Doug Rawling leading the music and Karl Johnsen as guest speaker.
