{"id":31791,"date":"2012-09-03T13:27:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T19:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/?p=31791"},"modified":"2012-09-03T13:27:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T19:27:43","slug":"fair-family-wins-gospel-sing-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/2012\/09\/03\/fair-family-wins-gospel-sing-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Family Wins Gospel Sing-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Fair Family<\/p><\/div>\n

A team of celebrity judges awarded first place in CAM\u2019s 4th Annual Gospel Sing Off to The Fair Family of Rogers, Arkansas, a talented group of singing and dancing siblings ranging in age from 14 to 22. Competing before an enthusiastic audience at Branson\u2019s Sight & Sound Theater, the four brothers and one sister won a prize purse of $1,500 and three performance slots at Silver Dollar City\u2019s Labor Day finale of the Country Gospel Picnic.<\/p>\n

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The Kings<\/p><\/div>\n

Placing second by the narrowest of margins was another family, The Kings of Monticello, Illinois. The talented band of seven brothers and sisters won a $1,000 prize purse. <\/p>\n

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Rachel Parker<\/p><\/div>\n

Taking home third place and $500 was a Branson High School junior, 16 year old Rachel Parker. The prize purse was sponsored by Key Business Sponsors: Branson Tourism Center and SIX.<\/p>\n

Attendees raved about the level of talent in this year\u2019s event, which was opened with some powerful gospel singing by the Voices of Glory, a top 5 finalist on America\u2019s Got Talent. Last year\u2019s winners, Southern, also made a guest appearance to close the show. The second half of the show was opened by local saxophonist Gary Dooms performed Amazing Grace to the delight of the crowd while a love offering was collected.<\/p>\n

For the third straight year, Bob Hubbard of the Jordanaires and the Foggy River Boys kept things on pace as the host emcee. Aside from the opening invocation and introduction of the acts, Bob also traded a few quips with judge Ronnie Page, who sings with the Downing Street Boys and is the entertainment editor for the Independent. Ronnie began his career with the Oak Ridge Boys, later joining the Chuck Wagon Gang.<\/p>\n

The other celebrity judges for the event included classically-trained tenor George Dyer, Jak Knudsen of SIX, Monte Schisler of Hometown Radio, Michael Cole of Voices of Glory, and Ben Dutton of The Duttons, a top 10 finalist on America\u2019s Got Talent.<\/p>\n

Pat Davis, CAM\u2019s Executive Director, announced to the crowd that over 1,400 families were helped by CAM in August. \u201cThis is a record number for us and is indicative of the ever-increasing need. That\u2019s why CAM needs your support as we begin to prepare for the winter months of traditionally greater need.\u201d<\/p>\n

CAM Board Chairman and producer of the event Jack Burke added, \u201cWe are particularly grateful to our wonderful and supportive community, along with Sight & Sound for providing this fantastic venue for our annual Sing-Off. We\u2019re blessed to be living in an area where neighbors truly do help neighbors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyone wishing to make a donation to CAM can call 334-1157 or visit www.christianactionministries.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A team of celebrity judges awarded first place in CAM\u2019s 4th Annual Gospel Sing Off to The Fair Family of Rogers, Arkansas, a talented group of singing and dancing siblings ranging in age from 14 to 22. Competing before an enthusiastic audience at Branson\u2019s Sight & Sound Theater, the four brothers and one sister won […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[12,16,22,19,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}