The 18th Annual Gospel Music Festival will be held January 4, 5 & 6, 2013
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The Rockport Gospel Music Festival began in 1994 as a gospel music concert, sponsored by the “Rockport’s Gospel Force” police quartet. It has been our goal from the beginning to give our citizens and visiting Winter Texas friends an enjoyable time of Christian entertainment and praise through gospel music. The Gospel Music Festival has grown larger and larger each year, because you continue to support this festival with your attendance, your prayers and your contributions. Without your consistent support the festival would never have grown to the three-day event that it has been the past few years.

Here we are at our 17th annual event and we sincerely appreciate the support received for this festival from generous Christian people all around the area. The support of local churches, Christian owned businesses, our Winter Texan friends, and our local citizens has been overwhelming. We look forward to your continued generosity and support as we continue on through the next several years. Music is a powerful tool that reaches into the very soul of man. When music is added with the Gospel of Christ, lives are changed.

We would like to welcome to this year’s festival for the first time: Mr. Brian Arnold from Hollow Rock, Tennessee, I first met Brian several years ago at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri. At that time he was singing with our now Emcee
David Fountain in a group called Chosen Few. Brian is known as “America’s Best One Handed Piano Player” and hopefully we will see during the weekend why he has been given that title. We are also glad to welcome the Williamson’s, the Strackbein’s and it is good to have Jerry Bennett back with us.

What can we say about the Crimson River Quartet other than thank you for the many trips that you have made from California to Rockport year after year to be with us for our festival. They are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year for the existence of their quartet.

Other groups returning this year are The Telestials, Dale and Cheryl Golden, Shiloh now called FourTwelve, 4 His Love, Delivered, John Springer Family, Greg Shockley (our very capable sound man) and of course, Rockport’s own Gospel Force Quartet.

I would like to thank David Fountain, Betty Killough, Bob Crawford, and Donna Love for taking on the task of soliciting and collecting for the ads that you will find in this years festival program, David Murrah for his continued service in
media and publicity needs, Celeste McCraw and Jennifer Jenkins for helping to plan and organize the hospitality suite for the artists, and especially my wife Patty—I thank you for your continued support and encouragement over these past 17 years as I have taken the time to coordinate this wonderful festival. Please pray for the continued success of this festival and please make plans to return to be with us next year for the 18th Annual Rockport Gospel Music Festival scheduled for January 4th, 5th and 6th of 2013.