Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir to Release Fifth Album

The multiple Grammy Award-winning Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir will be releasing its fifth album, I’m Amazed…LIVE, on INO records Sept. 27.

The album will feature 11 songs in addition to one worship medley and will feature guests Donnie McClurkin, Jason Crabb (The Crabb Family), and Luther Barnes (The Barnes Family).

Director Carol Cymbala says of I’m Amazed…LIVE, “There’s something here for everyone: black gospel, southern gospel, praise and worship, classical music … We have a diversified congregation, people from Trinidad, Korea, Japan, Jamaica – people from all over the world – they all love these songs and have been blessed by them.”

Cymbala, who has been leading the choir for nearly 30 years, penned the title track to the album after a weekend speaking engagement before choir directors.

“I thought I had about 30 minutes to speak but it turned out to be more like two hours,” Carol explains. “I began to share how a choir was more than singing just to be singing, how we’re supposed to reach out with our song and message, beyond the walls of the church.”

True to her word and the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir mission, proceeds from the new album will go to fund different outreach ministries at the Brooklyn Tabernacle, such as the “Adult Literacy Program.”

“We receive so many letters from people who have been ministered through the music,” Carol shares. “It’s just wonderful when you can hear how God has touched people, just by listening to the music. That has always been our goal, that is why we do what we do, and that’s why it’s always worth it.

The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir will be premiering I’m Amazed…Live at the Brooklyn Tabernacle church on the following dates:

Friday, September 23, 2005 7:30 PM

Sunday, September 25, 2005 3:30 PM

Sunday, October 2, 2005 3:30 PM

Seating for the premiers is free.

For more information, log on to www.brooklyntabernacle.org.