Once a Member, Always Family.

The OIGC Alumni community celebrates everyone who has shared their voice, spirit, and time with the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir over the years. Whether you sang for one season or twenty, you’re part of the harmony that continues to inspire joy and unity among all people through Black gospel and spiritual music traditions. Stay connected, lift your voice again, and keep the joy alive!

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Calling all Alumni!

Join Us for the 40th Anniversary Holiday Concert!

Whether you sang with us decades ago or just recently, this is your time to reconnect, rejoice, and raise your voice with the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir family.

RSVP by emailing: alumni@oigc.org

Let us know how you’d like to participate: singing, fashion show, brunch, or all three! See details below.

👉 Email alumni@oigc.org

Ways to Join the Celebration

Click HERE for the Dec. 5-7th Itinerary!

🎶 Sing in the Alumni Choir
Come back to the risers! Join us for a special Alumni Mashup performance featuring a medley of OIGC favorites.
Rehearsals:
• Mondays: Nov 17, Nov 24, & Dec 1
• 7:00–9:30 PM
• Imani Community Church (3300 MacArthur Blvd)
• Performance: Saturday, December 6 at the Paramount Theatre


💃 Walk the Runway: OIGC Fashion Show
Help us bring back every look from the past 40 years — robes, scarves, blazers, and more! We’re looking for alumni to model, lend, or help showcase vintage choir attire.  We have at least one of every uniform – and look forward to sharing the fun memories during our fashion show!


☕ Alumni Brunch & Dinner Before the Show
Reconnect and reminisce before the concert—pay-your-own-way; open to all alumni.
📅 Saturday, December 6 | 🕚 11:00 AM | 📍 {Restaurant TBD, near the Paramount Theatre}
Plus, join choir members for dinner after soundcheck.


📸 Share Your Memories
Can’t attend in person? Send a favorite OIGC photo or story to be featured in our “40 Years of Harmony” alumni slideshow.


RSVP as soon as you can: Let us know how you’d like to participate: singing, fashion show, brunch, or all of the above!

👉 Email alumni@oigc.org

Let’s fill the Paramount with 40 years of harmony, joy, and family.

FAQs

  • Just show up! Come to as many rehearsals as you can. If you can’t make it and don’t know the song by the concert, join us for “Joy to the World” at the end of the concert!

  • No problem! Come to that one. Practice at home. Be prepared at Sound Check and enjoy the concert!

  • A thorough itinerary is being finalized and will be distributed as well as posted here on this page as we get closer to the day. In addition to the rehearsals, we anticipate Alumni will be asked to arrive by 2:30 at the Paramount for Sound Check.

  • Yes! We are thrilled you can join us and are saving seats for you in the house with the choirs. You’ll have back-stage wristbands and access to seats in the reserved choir section on the main floor.

    Yes! We have a code for you to share with friends and family. And of course we would LOVE your support in spreading the word and helping us sell tickets to this special event.

    For the discount: Click through to the event, here ticketmaster.com/event/1C0062F7A60844CC and select the UNLOCK button. Enter code OIGC40‍ then click unlock. Thereafter, when you select your seats, the system will show the discounted rate. If you enter the code after the discount will not apply. (The code does not apply to the $15 seats nor to the 100@100 VIP experience available on our website.)

  • A couple of singers have offered to host in guest rooms and we have coordinated a discount code for the Oakland Mariott. Just $109/night!

    https://www.marriott.com/event-reservations/reservation-link.mi?id=1763580150056&key=GRP&app=resvlink&_branch_match_id=820450339807999113&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXTywo0MtNLCrKzC8p0UvOz9UvSi3OyczLtgdK2ALZZSCOWmaKraG5mbGphYGhqYGBqZladmqlrXtQgFpdUWpaKlB3Xnp8UlF%2BeXFqka1zRlF%2BbioAC92VtGAAAAA%3D

  • All black, uniform dress. Long sleeve and ankle-length. No lace, sheer, shiny, embellished…

  • A number of people have donated back their old uniforms! You can help by “modeling” one of those uniforms on stage during the concert. We’re lining up a list of which sizes and styles we have and will be assigning those on a first-come basis AT the Paramount during Sound Check.

  • Yes! We have a full itinerary for you. It will be posted here as soon as it is finalized and we will email everyone who has RSVP’d. Optional Brunch on Sat and Sun, join us for dinner on Sat before the show, and more!

    Click HERE for the Itinerary for the Weekend.

  • See above re: the discount code.

    If someone you want to bring cannot afford a ticket, we will find a spot for them — we have several student and guest seats available and strive to continue with our tradition of “no one turned away for lack of funds.”