SYCAMORE – Men’s gospel quartet Good News! will celebrate the release of its first CD with a concert and CD signing party on Saturday, Jan. 26, at Sycamore United Methodist Church. The concert will be followed by a CD signing party and refreshments.

The members of Good News! have been singing together for six years. Lanny Sanner is a quality engineer, Jim McCue is the business and finance administrator at SUMC, Joel Maurer is a civil engineer for the city of DeKalb and Doug Elder, the director, is a local government administrator. Ann Elder and Phyllis Horst accompany the group on piano and guitar.

Originally, the group was known as “the men’s quartet from SUMC.” Then one year, they sang an inspiring Christmas song called “Good News.” They knew that was what they wanted to communicate all year long; the good news that Jesus came as a baby, ultimately to die for everyone’s sins. So the name of that song became the name of their quartet, with an added exclamation point.