The Paris Henry County Arts Council is once again bringing to the community and surrounding area George F. Handel's Messiah on Saturday, December 1st 7pm at First Baptist Church, 313 Poplar St., Paris, Tennessee. A sixteen piece orchestra and a fifty-two member choir will be performing.
Todd E. Hill, a Henry County native, is this year's conductor. He is Director of Jazz ensemble at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. He is pianist for the Paducah, Kentucky Symphony Orchestra and leads his own well-known Todd Hill Quartet and Orchestra throughout the region.

Elaine Conger is serving as organist for the Messiah. She is the former Senior Director of Music at the Renaissance Center in Dickson and a native of Nashville. She currently serves part-time as the Education Specialist at the Dixie Carter Performing Arts and Academic Enrichment Center in Huntingdon and as pianist/organist at Grace Episcopal Church in downtown Paris.

The concert is free to the public thanks to sponsors Commercial Bank and Trust Company; AT&T; and Perry, McCain, & Cowart and the Tennessee Arts Commission.

This project is funded under an agreement with the Tennessee General Assembly and administered in cooperation with the State of Tennessee, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and the National Endowment for the Arts and Northwest Tennessee Development District.