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About Bob Marovich

Bob Marovich is a gospel music historian, author, and radio host. Founder of Journal of Gospel Music blog (formally The Black Gospel Blog) and producer of the Gospel Memories Radio Show.

Isaac Cates & Ordained to Participate in First-ever Vox Virtual Online A Cappella Festival

2020-08-09T02:18:11-05:00August 9th, 2020|

From Classical Movements: Vox Virtual is a first-of-its-kind online a cappella festival, August 22-29. It will bring together musicians representing cultures and traditions from around the world for a week-long program of free streaming concerts. The very unique part of the festival is each concert will be livestreamed free across [...]

Safer Singing During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: What We Know and What We Don’t

2020-08-08T02:26:19-05:00August 8th, 2020|

By Bob Marovich Dr. H. Steven Sims forwarded JGM a link to a fascinating article in the Journal of Voice, a publication of The Voice Foundation, to which he was one of several contributors. Choir directors, music ministers, and others in the business of training or managing singing groups will [...]

RIP: Sheila Burton, Mother of Half Mile Home’s Todd and Terence Burton

2020-08-06T01:26:56-05:00August 6th, 2020|

Half Mile Home (Akron, Ohio) Todd Burton and Terence Burton, two-thirds of the contemporary gospel group Half Mile Home, mourn the passing of their mother, Sheila M. Burton, from complications resulting from breast cancer on Monday, August 3rd. They report: "The Burton Family is deeply saddened with the [...]

Elder Arlester Washington & the Anointed Central Kentucky Mass Choir – Thank You

2020-08-03T02:45:13-05:00August 3rd, 2020|

Elder Arlester Washington & The Anointed Central Kentucky Mass Choir Thank You Time Now Records (2020) By Bob Marovich On the morning of April 9, 2019, Elder Arlester Washington was involved in a two-car accident that claimed his life. The tragedy devastated Lexington, Kentucky’s Now Faith Worship Center, where Washington [...]

All Nations Music – Come Alive (EP)

2020-07-31T20:03:43-05:00July 31st, 2020|

All Nations Music Come Alive EP RCA Inspiration (release date: July 3, 2020) www.rcainspiration.com By Bob Marovich Dr. Matthew L. Stevenson III needn’t worry about his sacred music bona fides. Stevenson's great-grandfather was the Reverend Elijah Thurston, founder of Chicago’s historic 44th Street Baptist Church, which produced many pioneering gospel [...]

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