Gospel festival on Central Square inspires audience

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Light rain showers did little to douse the celebration of gospel music throughout downtown Sunday afternoon.

A moderate crowd came out with their umbrellas and camp chairs for the inaugural 2DE Gospel Festival on Central Square.

“I think it’s going to be very positive,” Terrill Vidale, owner of 2Deep Entertainment, which co-sponsored the event with the city, said before the start of the show.

The festival featured eight gospel music performers including the Emancipation Community Choir, Yanno, Greater Youngstown Youth Choir and Warren City Wide Youth Choir.

Two-time Grammy Award winner Tye Tribbett was the headliner of the event. A native of Camden, N.J., Tribbett founded a gospel choir, Greater Anointing, consisting of a group of family and friends, according to his website.

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