edwin hawkins music + arts seminar

Donald Lawrence to Revive the Edwin Hawkins Music & Arts Seminar as “Music + Arts Global”

2023-02-22T19:41:54-06:00February 22nd, 2023|

GRAMMY® Award winning choirmaster Donald Lawrence is reviving his mentor, the legendary late Edwin Hawkins’ annual Music & Arts Seminar that was birthed in 1979 and reimagining it for the 21st century as a bi-annual conference, Music + Arts Global.

RIP: Edwin Hawkins, Architect of Contemporary Gospel

2018-01-15T22:26:02-06:00January 15th, 2018|

Photo Credit: Hawkins Gospel Conference website By Bob Marovich The Journal of Gospel Music has learned that Edwin Hawkins, whose arrangement of the nineteenth-century hymn "Oh Happy Day" became a crossover success and signaled the emergence of contemporary gospel music, passed away today (Jan. 15) in Pleasanton, California. Here [...]

Celebrating the DuBose Family on Occasion of Father’s 75th Birthday

2014-11-07T19:40:55-06:00November 7th, 2014|

The DuBose Family at work: Jonathan Jr. (left), Jonathan Sr. (center) and other family members. On the 75th birthday of Jonathan DuBose Sr., member of Bridgeport, Connecticut quartet the Sensational Starlights, the Journal of Gospel Music is pleased to repost its 2011 interview (below) with another musical member [...]

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