History
The first National Quartet Convention was held in 1957. J. D. Sumner, Cecil Blackwood and James Blackwood of The Blackwood Brothers were the founders of the famous National Quartet Convention formerly held in Memphis, Tennessee. The National Quartet Convention featured all the major gospel groups at a three-day event at the Ellis Auditorium in Memphis, Tennessee. After breaking even the first couple of years, the NQC was moved to Birmingham, Alabama in 1959 and Atlanta, Georgia in 1960. It returned to Memphis in 1961 and was drawing annual crowds of 20,000 by the mid-1960s. Sumner bought the convention in 1971 and moved it to Nashville, Tennessee, where it remained until 1993. Since then, the convention has made its home in Louisville.
J. G. Whitfield owned the convention from 1980-1982. A group of industry-member investors then bought the convention from Whitfield. A board of directors operates NQC.
2007 marked the 50th edition of the National Quartet Convention.
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