The Soweto Gospel Choir’s music, with its blend of struggle, hope and triumph, resonates deeply with audiences because it ...

African American Spirituals are songs that familiar to the ear for many. The history of these folk songs tells many stories. Voices from the Past that Resonate: A History of African American ...

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Among the new batch of 48 hymns released by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints you’ll find an African American spiritual. “I’m Gonna Live So God Can Use Me” was ...

As vocalist Anthony Russell learned a Yiddish piece about a woeful traveler far away from their family, he noticed it felt like another, very culturally different song — the African American spiritual ...

Voices of praise will ring out in Cortland from two guest choirs and two SUNY Cortland ensembles during SUNY Cortland’s 30th African American Gospel Music Festival on Sunday, Nov. 1. This year’s ...

The American Spiritual Ensemble is bringing the history and soul of American Negro spiritual music to Boston in their first tour of the Northeast. “I call it the 'mother music.' It's the music that ...

PASADENA (KABC) -- In honor of Black History Month, Saint Andrew Catholic Church in Pasadena organized a concert featuring African American spiritual songs. The music from the acclaimed bass baritone ...

Robert Plant and his new band Saving Grace will release their debut LP, Saving Grace, on September 26. It’s a collection of covers by a diverse range of songwriters, including Memphis Minnie, Bob ...

The Jacobs School of Music voice department held the special performance, “A Celebration of African American and African Diasporic Song,” on Tuesday in honor of Black History Month. Performed in Auer ...

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 ...