MLK Jr Festival at Koger Center

COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– The midlands is honoring the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr with song.

The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Gospel Festival will take place at 6 p.m. Sunday at the Koger Center.

The festival features the Brookland Baptist Gospel Choir and Pastor Shawn Jones and the Believers, an all-male gospel quartet from Rockford, Ala., that has performed at gospel festivals nationally since 2010.

According to the University of South Carolina, the program also will feature remarks by the Rev. Chris Leevy Johnson, a university graduate and director of Leevy’s Funeral Home.