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The Gospel Music Workshop of America concluded its annual convention in Cincinnati yesterday evening and will be returning to the "Queen City" for next year's gathering. Although the following is not meant to be a comprehensive survey of Cincinnati's gospel music heritage, here are some tidbits to whet your appetite:Queen [...]

Every year at the Gospel Announcers Guild meetings during the Gospel Music Workshop of America, one artist takes the room by surprise.So far this year, that artist is Pastor Seon Thompson.This tall, bespectacled, mild-mannered gentleman preacher from Flint, MI got in front of the gospel announcers Wednesday afternoon and tore [...]

"In Me"Eunice WrightFrom the CD Wait On Me 2009Joyful Noyze EntertainmentBorn, raised and living in Delaware, Psalmist Eunice Wright is a "PK" - born to Bishop David and Evangelist Ella Purnell. Of course, being a PK is a good thing, because true to her lineage, Wright knows how to minister [...]

Here are photographic highlights from Monday and Tuesday, July 27 & 28, of the Gospel Announcers Guild of the Gospel Music Workshop of America - in host city Cincinnati, Ohio (photos by TBGB). Bishop Larry Trotter and the Sweet Holy Spirit Combined Choirs of Chicago, directed by James Lott, tear [...]

"Working My Faith"Letita MartinFrom the I-66 Entertainment album Take Me Somewhere Unexpected(Single available on iTunes August 18, 2009; full album in stores Fall 2010)Letita Martin of Rapid City, South Carolina delivers a song about finding and hanging onto faith despite life's challenges, and she does it with such an intense [...]

“I Need You Lord”Curtis WashingtonOverBoard Recordswww.myspace.com/thecurtiswashingtonGospel artist and “PK” Curtis Washington of Houston, Texas was once a member of the R&B group “Reality” and the gospel group “God’s Creation.” He is known to many as the late Gerald Levert’s unofficial twin, given the two singers’ vocal similarities.Today, Curtis is going [...]

TBGB is saddened to report the death of Horace Clarence Boyer, gospel music singer and historian. From WNCU:http://www.wncu.org/jazz-news/horace-clarence-boyer-1935-2009/

“Twisted”Michelle Lang & StillwaterFrom the forthcoming CD Obnoxious (release date: August 2009)www.michellelang-stillwater.comFormed in 2000 and expecting to do a “one time…just outside of town” type of gig, Michelle Lang and Stillwater from Seattle, Washington now has three albums to its credit and a fourth on the way. Lang was voted [...]

J MossJust JamesVerity Gospel Music Group 2009www.verityrecords.comJames “J” Moss is one of the most exciting gospel artists of the decade. Of course, he hails from the Moss/Clark dynasty, as prodigious a musical family as there is, and from Detroit, no less, a city that knows a thing or two about [...]