The U.S. Naval Academy Men's Glee Club.

    ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The internationally-acclaimed U.S. Naval Academy Men’s Glee Club will be in the Jackson area Jan. 13-16, for a series of public performances and school visits over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend.

    The main public concert will be a Salute to America’s Heroes concert on Saturday, Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. at the Galloway United Methodist Church at 305 North Congress Street in downtown Jackson. The Men’s Glee Club will be featured performers at Galloway, one of the area’s premier performing venues. The concert is free and no tickets are required. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

    The largest and most active of the Naval Academy’s musical organizations, the Men’s Glee Club, regularly travels around the country, representing the Naval Academy and the naval service. The Glee Club has received national acclaim for recent collaborations performing masterpieces of choral-orchestral literature with some of the nation’s leading symphony orchestras to include Charlotte, Columbus, Phoenix, Nashville and Portland, Maine. A 10-day visit to Chile and Argentina in 2009 garnered international acclaim from ambassadors and state department officials.

    “This will be our first visit to the Jackson area and to be able to bring our midshipmen to perform a concert to honor those who have served means a lot to our Glee Club members,” states Dr. Aaron Smith, the chairman of the Naval Academy’s Music Department, and the director of the Men’s Glee Club. “All of them will be serving our country as officers in the Navy and Marine Corps upon graduation from the Academy and performing a concert on the Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend connects the heroes of our past with the heroes of our future.”

    In addition to the concert at Galloway United Methodist Church, the Glee Club will be visiting several area high schools and participating in the 10:45 a.m. Sunday Worship Service on Jan. 15 at the St. Mark’s United Methodist Church in Brandon.

    For more information on USNA Men’s Glee Club, visit www.usna.edu/music. For more information about the Naval Academy, visit www.usna.edu and on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/USNavalAcademy.