Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir (OIGC) 

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The choir is a Bay Area institution known for its annual holiday concerts in Oakland, San Francisco, as well as the South Bay. It performs year-round at local events such as Oakland's Art and Soul Festival and the Monterey Jazz Festival. Choir members also donate their time to perform at prisons, homeless shelters and hospitals.
The choir has toured the country and appeared in New Orleans, Atlanta and Portland, Oregon. The group has also taken its music overseas with concerts in Israel and Australia, where it won the Gold Award from the International Music Festival in Sydney. Its audiences have included Nelson Mandela, South African Bishop Desmond Tutu and Mikhail Gorbachev.
The Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir has recorded three albums and contributed tracks to albums benefiting community service organizations. It performed on three Grammy Award-wining albums: Linda Ronstadt's "Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind;" MC Hammer's "Too Legit to Quit;" and Tramaine Hawkin's "Live." The choir has also performed live with a number of notable musicians including Stan Getz, Lyle Lovett and Joan Baez.