This year the Chicago Gospel Festival honored Dr. LouDella Evans Reed for her years of service in gospel music. Performers at the festival included: The Greater Harvest Sanctuary Choir, Pastor Daniel Smith, Tim White and Refocused, GMAC Mass Choir, Kierra Sheard Kelly, The Walls Group, Brian Courtney Wilson, The Williams Singers, John P. Kee, and many others.
Kierra Sheard Kelly sang a tribute to the Clark Sisters and timeless gospel favorites. She sang hit songs “You Brought the Sunshine” , “On Time God”, “Clean Inside”, “Stomp”, and “God in Me”.
The Walls Group performed “And You Don’t Stop”, “Love Lifted Me”, “Speak to Me”, “Let Me Be Great”, and their new song “Crazy”.
Brian Courtney Wilson performed “One More Praise”, “Increase My Faith”, “This Time I Will Be Still”, and praise song “Great Work”.
The Williams Singers brought quartet music to the festival. They sang many of their hit songs including “Their Is No way”.
John P. Kee closed out the festival as he performed many of his great songs, and songs that he had written for other artists. He sang “I Believe”, “Jesus Is Real”, “Got A Made Up Mind”, “You Don’t Know My Story”, “You’ve Been So Good”, “I Made It Out”, and many others.
