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 ...

Sixty-four years after the premiere of its signature work “Revelations,” Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has introduced a piece choreographed by interim artistic director Matthew Rushing that ...

Violist Ashleigh Gordon didn’t grow up in the Black church. Spirituals weren’t part of the sonic landscape that nourished her as a young musician. And when she cofounded Castle of our Skins, the ...

(RNS) — Zion Earle, a member of the youth choir at the Hamilton-Garrett Center for Music and Arts in the Roxbury neighborhood, sings Negro spirituals like “My Lord! What a Morning” at concerts in the ...

Presents Negro spirituals, sung in pure form as they were a century ago on St. Simon's Island off the coast of Georgia. Introduces each song with explanatory titles and then several women sing them ...

(RNS) — ‘Fisk Jubilee Singers are artists and do not limit themselves to just Negro spirituals,’ its director said. ‘There’s versatility in our choice of music when we have celebrations.’ (RNS) — A ...

Standing at the pulpit Sunday, light streaming in through the stained glass windows behind her, United Parish Minister of Music Susan DeSelms began to sing. “This little light of mine…” she started. “ ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A choir sings traditional gospel music. Staff Sgt. Bernardo Fuller The enslaved Africans who first arrived in the British colony ...

The late Sister Thea Bowman, a Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration from Canton, Miss., was nationally known for her work to advance the life of her fellow black Catholics in the church. She ...

I was doing some research the other day, and as usual, I got sidetracked off on another subject. I ran across a YouTube video of Sister Rosetta Tharpe singing an old black spiritual, “Ain’t Gonna ...