Minister Larenz Johnson And The Tampa Mass Choir, Inc. Credit: Photo via TheTampaMassChoir/Facebook

Every Sunday is an opportunity to see one of Tampa Bay’s bodacious gospel choirs. You don’t get many weekends to them all in one place though.

A Saturday miracle (and Minister L.A. Johnson) brings a bunch of them together for Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend.

Ensembles from some of the Bay area’s longest-running congregations—like Ybor City’s Allen Temple AME Church—join others like the gospel choir from the University of South Florida for the no-cover affair kicking off at 5 p.m. inside Tampa’s Beulah Baptist Church.

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This article appears in Jan 16-22, 2025.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...