The Gospel Harmony Boys

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Michael Bloomfield Remembered

Gil McClanahan - September 5, 2009 WOWK TV, Charleston, WV

Clacy Williams of the Gospel Harmony Boys is taking a trip down memory lane, remembering a friend.

Michael Bloomfield...a former member of the group...is West Virginia's first swine flu-related death. He joined the Gospel Harmony Boys out of high school as a keyboard player and left in 1998. Still, he and Williams talked on a regular basis.

"Michael was one of those people who was dear to everybody he knew. He never met a person who didn't love him. He never met an audience he couldn't entertain," says Williams.

Bloomfield continued to be active in the gospel music industry, both as an arranger and producer.

"He was well-known to all the different local groups, and he did a lot of work with them and produced CD projects," says Doug Humphreys of the gospel group "The Humphreys".

"Michael was one of those people who was dear to everybody he knew."

The world of gospel music is a tight-knit family, so naturally when Michael went into the hospital, thousands of e-mails were sent to churches from Florida to Canada asking for prayers for a miracle.

"It's almost impossible to believe he's gone, way too young to be gone," says Williams.

This weekend the Gospel Harmony Boys perform in Point Pleasant and Columbus. Williams says those concerts will be dedicated to Bloomfield, a man who was much more than the keyboard player, but a lifelong friend who will be deeply missed.