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No instrument is more deeply moving on a personal level than the human voice. There’s something about it which can tug at the heartstrings and triggers emotions which we didn’t know we were capable of feeling off of music. The Gaither Vocal band has harnessed the power of the human voice to its full potential and uses it to deliver stunning renditions of contemporary Christian and Southern Gospel tunes which are always guaranteed to move an audience.

Named after founder and leader Bill Gaither, the group has had a number of members over the years but whatever form the group takes they always impress with the same skillset. There are lush harmonies and acrobatic vocal interplay on display every night as the group soar through a number of hymns and songs of praise. There’s a palpable chemistry between the members who are clearly enjoying themselves as they work their way through these powerful pieces of music. The human voice is a powerful tool which this group have harnessed to deliver messages of praise and worship, much to enjoyment of the massive crowds that are there every time they play.

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The concert lasted 4 hours, but I would've stayed longer if they'd have kept singing!!!! We sang,laughed, cried and worshipped! What an amazing evening!

If you love gospel music, this is the concert to spend your hard earned money on!

This band is so blessed with incredible talent and uses it to worship our Lord and spread the good news about Jesus. It was an awesome worship experience. You could feel God’s presence in the sanctuary. I would highly recommend going to hear them. They also add humor to the performance that was very enjoyable.

we enjoyed each minute a very inspirational two hours.. Left with a good feeling of togetherness. We look forward to booking again we have seen several of their shows if you have a chance do not miss!

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A singer/songwriter, impresario and beloved Christian entertainer, Bill Gaither is a living legend. Along with his talented wife and musical partner, Gloria, he leads the Gaither Vocal Band on fabulous tours that ring out the Gospel message of Gospel music. Popular throughout America and around the world for perfecting the dominant vocals and intricate harmonies of this Christian music genre, Gaither Homecoming concerts and recordings continue to delight and enthrall Believers in a one-of-a-kind way.

Bill and Gloria’s warm heart and Southern hospitality make Gaither Homecoming travel events truly live up to their name. Gloria enjoys sharing from her walk with the Lord during morning devotional times, and Bill likes getting to meet and greet all the Gospel music enthusiasts he can! Of course the rest of the Gaither Vocal Band makes everything come together pitch-perfect, not to mention the other guests that keep you entertained and uplifted all day long. If you already enjoy Gaither Homecomings, you will love a Gaither Homecoming cruise. It’s a full week of the best Gospel concerts you’ve ever heard. Come home to a place you’ve never been when you travel with this dynamic duo to exciting destinations around the world.

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Multi-Grammy Award winning recording artist,  Bill Gaithe r will kicks off the  Moments To Remember  Tour   this Spring, as he brings his multi-award winning group, The Gaither Vocal Band to 16 cities during February, March, April and May (complete Tour dates listed below).  

For nearly half a century, Gaither, a multiple Grammy and Dove award winner, has been a musical trailblazer. His reputation as a performer, songwriter and mentor for newly-discovered artists is known world-wide. His beloved series of Homecoming CDs and DVDs continues to top the sales charts and attract an ever-increasing audience. Honors and accolades have flowed his way in bunches, including his most recent Grammy nomination for Best Roots Gospel Album of the Year for the Gaither Vocal Band  Shine  recording. 

Taking the stage with Gaither and the Gaither Vocal Band, featuring Wes Hampton, Adam Crabb, Todd Suttles and Reggie Smith, will be popular female vocalist, Ladye Love Smith and talented male vocalist, Gene McDonald, as well as Gaither's musical entourage, comprised of Kevin Williams, Matthew Holt and Michael Rowsey. 

The 2024 Spring Tour affords Gaither, who turns 88 in March, the opportunity to continue to share the message he has been proclaiming for more than six decades. It's that desire to spread the message of hope through music that keeps the Indiana native thriving. "I love doing what I do," Gaither shares. "Life is about moments and making every moment count. Each night we try to create moments that will allow our audience to walk away feeling that they have truly experienced a great moment. That's why we continue to do what we do." 

Tickets for the  2024 Gaither Moments To Remember Tour  are on sale now. To purchase tickets or obtain additional details visit  www.gaither.com .  

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Wrexham’s Paul Mullin and Elliot Lee on the pitch celebrating promotion to League One after the final whistle of the Sky Bet League Two match at the SToK Cae Ras, Wrexham, Saturday April 13, 2024. (Jacob King/PA via AP)

Wrexham fans invade the pitch celebrating promotion to League One after the final whistle of a League Two soccer match, Saturday, April 13, 2024, in Wrexham, Wales. The Welsh team co-owned by actor Ryan Reynolds clinched promotion to the third tier of English soccer thanks to a 6-0 home win over Forest Green on Saturday. (Jacob King/PA via AP)

Wrexham players on the pitch celebrate promotion to League One after the final whistle of the Sky Bet League Two match at the SToK Cae Ras, Wrexham, Saturday April 13, 2024. (Jacob King/PA via AP)

Wrexham’s James McClean, left, and Ben Tozer celebrate promotion to League One after the final whistle of the Sky Bet League Two match at the SToK Cae Ras, Wrexham, Saturday April 13, 2024. (Jacob King/PA via AP)

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WREXHAM, Wales (AP) — Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are taking Wrexham back to the United States this summer.

Details were announced in an online video on Thursday, confirming two games in California and another in Vancouver, Canada, as part of the Welsh club’s preparations for the English third tier next season.

Wrexham shot to global fame after being bought by Hollywood actors Reynolds and McElhenney in 2021. Under their stewardship, Wrexham has earned promotion in two successive seasons.

Wrexham will play Bournemouth in Santa Barbara on July 20, Chelsea in Santa Clara on July 24, and the Vancouver White Caps on July 27.

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9 films to check out at this year's documentary festival — and when you can watch outside of ontario.

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Late to look up what's hot at Hot Docs this year? Or are you unable to attend the Ontario festival that cut out its popular at-home streaming option? 

Have no fear. CBC News has compiled some of the the best documentaries at the festival that are most worth your time.

That includes some films that, as of Wednesday morning, still have tickets available — and information on when and where moviegoers outside of Toronto can see them at home or elsewhere later this year.

The festival runs April 25 to May 5.

Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story

An inimitable trans R&B performer born in Nashville found her stage, and her spiritual home, in 1960s Toronto. Then, she disappeared.

That's the plot of Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee's Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story , a fascinating and well-researched profile uncovering the true story of a woman forgotten and let down by an industry she helped revolutionize.

While showings initially sold out, an additional screening was added for May 4 — which, as of Wednesday morning, still has tickets available.

If you're outside Toronto: The film will also close   Vancouver's DOXA film festival on May 11. It will then receive a theatrical run this spring and summer, and stream on Crave in the fall.

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Beethoven's Nine: Ode to Humanity

Canadian director Larry Weinstein has always been fascinated with classical music. His documentary  Beethoven's Nine: Ode to Humanity  aimed to focus on the composer's Symphony No. 9, and the people who most reflected its ode to joy and humanity.

But as international conflicts and personal tragedies intersected, it became something very different. The result is equal parts war documentary, memoir and social commentary, and is affecting the whole way through.

The documentary's three showings on April 28, April 30 and May 4 are sold out, but worth an attempted rush. 

If you're outside Toronto:  The film will be broadcast on TV and online through TVO, likely late summer or early fall.

A New Kind of Wilderness

Like a real-life Captain Fantastic , A New Kind of Wilderness charts a few seasons in the life of a Norwegian homesteading family. With a microscope on the lives of its subjects, the tender, detailed introspection — and unparalleled cinematography — that its director Silje Evensmo Jacobsen achieves makes it a clear standout at this year's festival.

This gorgeous, sad and compelling film still has tickets available for both its showings on May 3 and 5.

If you're outside Toronto: A New Kind of Wilderness does not yet have a release date. But for those on the West Coast willing to make the trip, it will appear at the Seattle International Film Festival next month.

Never Look Away

If you've seen A24's recent Civil War , you've seen Margaret Moth, the subject of Lucy Lawless's Never Look Away . A fearless war cinematographer who spent more time running through hails of bullets than sleeping, Moth is the kind of person who demands a documentary be made about them.

Lawless puts together what drove her through military engagements in Tbilisi, Scud missile attacks in the Gulf War and the siege of Sarajevo — and eventually, more personal struggles. 

Tickets are down to rush opportunities for all three showings at Hot Docs on April 27, April 30 and May 4.

If you're outside Toronto:  A wider theatrical release is coming in the fall, with video on demand to follow.

"I feel like teenagers are all just, like, miserable," says one of Josephine Anderson's Curl Power characters early on. While it seems like a strange observation for a sports film, it's really not — because it's about much more than its ostensible focus.

Pitched as a documentary about a B.C. curling team, Curl Power is a deeply personal and tender examination of what it means to grow up, the unique pressures and pains of girlhood — and in a strange but compelling way, how to reckon with our delicate humanity and finite time on Earth.

Tickets are still available for its April 29 screening at Hot Docs.

If you're outside Toronto: The film will continue a run across Canada's festival circuit this fall and eventually launch on Telus platforms over the winter.

"When you get out of jail next time and you go back in jail, I'm not going to share even one single tear," says 10-year-old Santana. "Done sharing tears because he want to keep doing bad stuff that he shouldn't be doing. It's not OK. It's affecting me. Mostly me." 

An emotional slam-dunk masterpiece, Daughters follows the girls and fathers involved in the Date with Dad program — a father-daughter dance organized for families separated by the carceral system.

Tickets are down to rush access at this year's festival, on April 26, April 27 and May 4.

If you're outside Toronto: Daughters  will premiere on Netflix this summer.

An eye-opening, hopeful — and somewhat disheartening — exposé on the modern state of labour organizing, Union looks at the Amazon Labor Union's attempts to unionize a Staten Island warehouse. Woven into its secret recordings of union-busting meetings, police confrontations and courtroom bombshells are painfully human moments showcasing how difficult it can be to get a room of people to agree on a single thing.

And if you're curious, yes, that is CBC's Nicole Mortillaro reporting on the Blue Origin space launch in the movie's opening.

A late additional showing on May 4 still has tickets available, while April 26 and 28 are down to rush tickets.

If you're outside Toronto: The film will also show at DOXA on May 6.

Power looks at the creation and maintenance of American policing — and police forces as a whole. Documenting police brutality — both in the past and very recent present — this Yance Ford-directed production is sure to drive emotions and conversation. Reminiscent of Let the Fire Burn , a documentary about the Philadelphia police's 1985 bombing of a Black nationalist group, this provocative work is certainly worth watching.

Showings are now down to rush, on May 1 and 3. 

If you're outside Toronto: Power will release on Netflix on May 17.

Black Box Diaries

Shiori Itō's deeply personal Black Box Diaries is almost too painful to watch, but demands its audience follows through. As a journalist herself, Itō turns the camera back around to document her own high-profile attempts to prosecute the well-connected journalistic senior who raped her.

After wowing critics and general audiences at the Sundance Film Festival — and pulling in a current 100 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes — the documentary will be shown at Hot Docs on April 29 and May 3. Both screenings still have tickets available.

If you're outside Toronto:  DOXA will also feature this film on May 5 and 6. 

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Adam hadwin, nick taylor grew up at 6,200-yard ledgeview golf club.

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Ledgeview Golf Course is only about 6,200 yards long, but don’t be fooled – sloping greens and tight lines off the tees make up for its lack of length. The course also demands solid ball-striking and sound thinking.

When Nick Taylor made the bending 10-footer to get into a playoff at last year’s RBC Canadian Open, Brady Stead, the director of instruction at the small but challenging course, was not surprised.

“I mean, you can hit that putt on our practice green,” Stead said.

Ledgeview is in Abbotsford, British Columbia – about an hour from Vancouver. Stead jokingly says people sometimes say it’s “out in the sticks.” But one look at the course and you’ll understand why it has produced two of Canada’s top-ranked golfers in Taylor and Adam Hadwin.

And with the Canadian duo reuniting for this week’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans – where they finished runner-up to Nick Hardy and Davis Riley last year – there’s another whole generation ready to follow in their footsteps.

Taylor/Hadwin make sixth-straight birdie at Zurich Classic

“It really is random until you see why it isn’t,” Stead said of the little course having produced two PGA TOUR winners. “You see the golf course and you understand why it happens. It’s great for us – the kids show up at the golf course and work hard and really believe they can do it.

“It goes back to Mike Weir winning the Masters for all of us growing up. A lot of Canadians believe they can do it, too.”

The most indelible moment in Canadian golf last year was no doubt Taylor winning the RBC Canadian Open in a playoff over Tommy Fleetwood. (PGA TOUR Radio called it thusly: “For the eagle… for the win… to the cup… Yes! Yes! The drought is over! The drought is over! History!”) But before that, Taylor and Hadwin teamed up in New Orleans, a nod to their old junior golf days. Their final-round 9-under 63 was a new alternate-shot scoring record even if it wasn’t enough to catch Hardy and Riley.

Nick Taylor’s winning putt at RBC Canadian Open as called by PGA TOUR Radio

“Our alternate shot was actually better than our best ball this week, which is pretty interesting,” Taylor said with a laugh last year.

Hadwin said there are plenty of reasons why things clicked so well last year. How close the guys are certainly helped, he said, but their games also complement each other well. Hadwin said Taylor is “probably a little better” with his irons, but he, Hadwin, hits it a little farther.

Taylor is indeed 13th in Strokes Gained: Approach to Green this season (to Hadwin’s 106th), while Taylor averages just over 288 yards off the tee to Hadwin at 296 yards. They are both deadly with the putter, with Taylor at 19th in SG: Putting and Hadwin 59th.

A year ago, the scoring formula on the Sunday was Hadwin hit fairways, Taylor hit greens and Hadwin made the putts.

“Hopefully we can replicate some of that magic,” Hadwin said.

Their success is due not just to complementary skill sets but also familiarity. The duo went to different high schools, but they’ve known each other since they were about 12. Hadwin, whose father Gerry worked at Ledgeview, is one year older than Taylor. They have homes about 15 minutes away from each other in Scottsdale. (Taylor spends a lot of time back in Abbotsford with wife Andie and their two kids – Charlie and Harper – while Hadwin and wife Jessica and daughter Maddox have another home in Jessica’s hometown of Wichita, Kansas.)

Hadwin and Taylor have spent the last decade or so climbing golf’s ladder together, including a run on the Korn Ferry Tour. They earned PGA TOUR cards together in 2014 and paired up once before – at the 2018 World Cup, where they tied for fourth. They’re hoping to make Weir’s International team for the Presidents Cup at Royal Montreal this fall, and would be the two Canadian representatives if the Olympics started today.

“It’s pretty wild,” Hadwin said of their parallel golfing journey. “I don’t think it happens very often. You think, 170 or 180 guys have PGA TOUR cards every single year – and we have two from literally 10 minutes apart. Not only that, but two guys in the (top 60) in the world. We probably never thought we’d be at this point.”

Added Taylor: “It’s surreal to reflect on the journey, for sure. Starting out together at Ledgeview at the junior level, our time as amateurs to now both competing on TOUR. It’s very humbling. I know I speak for both Adam and I in saying we are so grateful for all the support from our families, friends, and our community that have helped us reach this point.”

Brady Stead watches Nick Taylor's win at the 2023 RBC Canadian Open with the kids at Ledgeview Golf Club. (Courtesy of Ledgeview Golf Club)

Back at Ledgeview, Stead – the director of instruction who has been at the course for almost a half-decade – said since 2021 the total number of junior-golf rounds has risen by 23 percent, with junior membership numbers having increased by 28 percent. The junior development program at the club has increased from six kids to 30 this year.

Nick Taylor hits golf balls in front of kids at Ledgeview Golf Club. (Courtesy of Ledgeview Golf Club)

The happiest and biggest surprise, he said, was that on junior nights the non-member green fee total (which reflects kids looking to give golf a try) went up 84 percent between 2022 and 2023.

“We had to change our booking policy because of the demand,” Stead said. “It’s definitely a huge attraction to Ledgeview because of what those guys have done. It really does bring a lot of kids to the facility to think, maybe one day, they could be just like them.”