The elegiac hymn “Work Song” from Hozier's self-titled debut album follows the earnest singer using an early 20th-century ...
When tenor singer, educator, conductor and music director Everett McCorvey was a child in Montgomery, Alabama, his father was a deacon at First Baptist Church, where civil rights activist Rev. Ralph ...
The chorus draws singers from Wayne and surrounding counties to perform a repertoire encompassing a variety of musical genres ...
During concert performances of The Spirituals Project, director and choir conductor M. Roger Holland II invites the audience to sing in unison with the choral members – their voices melding together ...
As a child, Will Liverman would listen to cassette tapes from the 1980s and 1990s that his mother had produced in which she sang her own gospel tunes. Those moments are some of his earliest musical ...
“Gospel came from the Negro spirituals,” said Mississippi Mass Choir Executive ... Yet in the face of adversity, those well-crafted civil rights songs, hymns, the call and response songs, and rallying ...
He was pulling from gospel, jazz, rhythm & blues ... Just as there are hundreds of versions of the same spirituals. The music is simple, but the feeling, the lowdown, gutbucket feeling, has ...
Hamilton's gospel course begins with spirituals like Down by the Riverside ... "You learn these choruses and these songs and these hymns every Sunday. So it's kind of like the music lesson that ...
Saturday, Feb. 25, the Trey Clegg Singers will perform “Lift Every Voice,” a concert diving into the history of African-American spirituals and gospel music. “It became known as the Black National ...