TIFTON — The “Three For One” Concert in the Garden performance scheduled for noon Friday has been cancelled because of illness. The series will resume at noon Friday, Oct. 23, in Tifton Gardens in downtown Tifton. The performances are free and sponsored by The Tifton Gazette and Main Street Tifton.
“Three For One” is a trio of performers that includes Gazette Sports Editor Kyle Dean; his cousin, Eric Gonzales; and Dean’s mother, Andrea Dean. The group performs progressive Southern gospel music. The name of the group came from the idea that the three are singing for one God, Kyle Dean said.
Kyle Dean describes the music the group performs as progressive Southern gospel with very little contemporary Christian music.
“It is progressive, but it is rooted in the deep traditional Southern gospel people will like to hear,” Dean said.
Dean said he, his mother and his cousin have performed as a group at churches in Valdosta, Moultrie, Albany, Thomasville and Warner Robins, but only at four local churches in Tift County.
“We had 150 dates last year and are on pace to do 200 this year,” Dean said.
The name of the group came from the idea that the three are singing for one God, Dean said.
Kyle Dean’s family, including his mother, attend Liberty Baptist Church in Tift County. Gonzales attends Isabella Baptist Church in Sylvester. Dean said he and Gonzales, who are six months apart in age, sang a variety of music together while they were young children. They also sang together in the Eighth Street Singing Company and were state runners-up in the Boys Literary Quartet with Brian Chandler and Jamie Clements while at Tift County High.
Dean said his mother has been singing gospel music for 25 years and prior to the group forming, he and Gonzales would ask her to join them and sing. The group was born nearly three years ago.
“Eric wasn’t saved at the time we got together, but he had a vision of us singing together so we got together as a group and started singing,” Dean said.
Dean said that the group hasn’t written any original songs yet.
“We hope that is something that God lays on our hearts to do,” Dean said.
The group recently recorded their first CD, a self-titled release.
“We have 10 songs on this project. It includes old favorites like ‘He Touched Me’ and ‘Midnight Cry’ but also more progressive tracks like ‘Truth Is Marching On’ and ‘Grip of Grace’,” Dean said.
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