LAYERED LIKE A SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA HAS LONG HELD THE POWER TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER. OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, BOSTON IS REPLETE WITH GOOD MUSIC. I’M NOT ONLY FROM THE UNIVERSITIES, BUT MANY OF THE CHURCHES ...

ST. LOUIS – The Community Gospel Choir is hosting the Gospel Roots Concert on Sunday, Feb. 23, at Friendly Temple in Black Jack, celebrating Black history through gospel music. The 60-voice ensemble ...

17TH, 1970, GREENVILLE COUNTY SCHOOLS INTEGRATED ALL OF ITS SCHOOLS. FORMER STUDENTS AT FIVE, ALL BLACK HIGH SCHOOLS IN GREENVILLE BEFORE INTEGRATION. NOW GET TO ...

Choirs from Wolverhampton, Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire are among finalists, festival organisers say.

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As gentrification, declining attendance and pandemic-era shifts reshape Brooklyn’s Black churches, choirs work to preserve music traditions. On Sunday mornings in Brooklyn, nicknamed the borough of ...

OH MY. UNITED PARISH IN BROOKLINE, THE CHOIR IS GATHERED TOGETHER TO REHEARSE OVER MY. MINISTER OF MUSIC, SUSAN DISARMS LEADS THE SINGERS FROM BEHIND THE PIANO. OKAY, I’M GOING TO TEACH YOU ANOTHER ...

From the negro spirituals composed in secrecy during enslavement, to the civil rights anthems that declared “we shall not be moved,” to the gospel hits that erupt in a praise break of emotions within ...

Gwen Davis sings at Berean Baptist Church in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (Fiona Murphy/Religion News Service via AP) NEW YORK (RNS) — On Sunday ...

Meaning the evolution of Black choral music not only sculpted the Black spiritual experience, it passed down the tools needed to heal our bloodlines. “We have within the diaspora two very important ...