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Sunday, 06 June 2010 08:17

Talbot offers mission, music

John Michael Talbot will appear at St. Thomas Aquinas in Mt. Pulaski for three events in June.MT. PULASKI — Musician and composer John Michael Talbot will offer a three-evening mission at 7 p.m. nightly from Tuesday, June 8, through Thursday, June 10, at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 317 S. Lafayette St. in Mt. Pulaski.

Admission is free, though seating will be limited to approximately 400.

Talbot has produced more than 50 recordings over the years with sales around 4 million total. His songs were the first by a Catholic artist to cross well-defined boundaries and gain acceptance by Protestant listeners. In 1982 he won the Dove Award for Worship Album of the Year, Light Eternal, with producer and longtime friend Phil Perkins. Four years later, he became one of only nine artists to receive the President’s Merit Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and, in 1988 he was named the No. 1 Christian Artist by Billboard magazine.

For more information, contact Dr. Jack Cluney at (217) 816-2824.