The International Country Gospel Music Association is staging it’s biggest event of the year in West Plains, Missouri on July 17, 18 and 19. It’s the 69th Annual I.C.G.M.A. Convention and Award Show. Each year it draws singers and musicians from all across America, as well as some foreign countries to share their special brand of music to capacity crowds, in what has become one of the favorite events of the year in the Ozarks. The music includes Country Gospel, Bluegrass Gospel and Southern Gospel music.