Meet, THE VOICES OF FREEDOM, west Michigan’s premier 8-part, acappella vocal ensemble, specializing in singing Patriotic and Americana music. We are comprised of men and women from the greater Grand Rapids, Michigan area.
We have sung our National Anthem at most, if not all major sporting events in the West Michigan area including: the Fifth Third Riverbank Run, West Michigan Whitecaps, Berlin Raceway, Grand Rapids Griffins, MSU Spartans basketball. We have also been honored to sing our National Anthem for new citizen naturalization ceremonies. We have recently been honored to perform at the state wide NCO ball for our Michigan National Guard. We have also been privileged to sing several times for our Michigan National Guard troops to welcome them home from deployment. This year, 2010, we celebrated our 10-year anniversary of performing for the military ceremony at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens on Memorial Day. 
You may have seen us sing at The Fourth of July celebration at Ah-Nab-Awen Park in Grand Rapids, in addition to the Coast Guard Festival in Grand Haven and the Festival of the Arts in Grand Rapids. We have also sung numerous times at the Frederick Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids and the Gerald Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids for the tree-lighting ceremony and for naturalization ceremonies for new citizens. Concerts in the Park in Wyoming, Ada, Parchment, Montague and Canadian Lakes are other venues where you may have heard our ensemble perform. 
This year, 2011, THE VOICES OF FREEDOM celebrates fifteen years of singing together! We perform music arranged by Derric Johnson who arranged and directed music for Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida for many years. We also perform Christmas and holiday music seasonally.
Mark Pope is the director of THE VOICES OF FREEDOM. He graduated from Biola University in Southern California with a bachelor’s degree in vocal performance. Mark was privileged to perform at Walt Disney World for two years. Though some of the faces have changed over the years, we as THE VOICES OF FREEDOM remain true to our credo, to sing songs about our great land, America the Beautiful!
