City of Chicago :: Chicago Gospel Music Festival Announces Headline Acts And New Festival Site
City of Chicago :: Chicago Gospel Music Festival Announces Headline Acts And New Festival Site
Voices of Praise – I Give My All
Voices of PraiseI Give My AllVoices of Praise (2012)http://www.nyvoicesofpraise.com/By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Organized in 2000 by Delmark Joseph out of the First Wesleyan Church of Brooklyn, Voices of Praise is now a sextette that represents several different churches and whose members write original songs. I Give My [...]
Rev. Addie Wyatt, 88, labor leader fought for rights of all –
Rev. Addie Wyatt of Chicago died Wednesday at the age of 88. Among her many accomplishments (listed in the article below) was the founding of one of the city's first community choirs, the Wyatt Choral Ensemble, in the late 1940s. An amazing lady!Rev. Addie Wyatt, 88, labor leader fought for [...]
J.J. Hairston & Youthful Praise – After This
J.J. Hairston & Youthful PraiseAfter ThisLight Records/Entertainment One (2012)http://www.youthfulpraise.org/By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.It’s hard to be more musically energetic than J.J. Hairston & Youthful Praise. Their high-octane, intense and dramatic full-throated singing packs more punch than a container load of Red Bull. On the group’s latest CD, [...]
Video Break: Godz MessenGer – “In the Storms”
Actor, singer and pastor, Godz MessenGer of Atlanta delivers a message of hope in the midst of the storm.
Mary Mary, Blind Boys coming to Chicago Gospel Music Festival – Chicago Sun-Times
Mary Mary, Blind Boys coming to Chicago Gospel Music Festival - Chicago Sun-Times
Vee Edwards Plays Gospel Music at Its Best
Gospel announcer Vee Edwards spins gospel music from independent artists and interviews gospel legends such as Inez Andrews and Dorothy Norwood on "Gospel Music at Its Best," WYCB Spirit 1340. Listen live March 28, 2012 as Vee interviews the Soul Messengerz, a group signed recently by Malaco Records: http://www.myspiritdc.com/.
“Awesome” – Pastor Charles Jenkins & the Fellowship M.B. Church Choir
“Awesome”Pastor Charles Jenkins & the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church ChoirFrom the forthcoming CD: Pastor Charles Jenkins Presents Fellowship Chicago Livewww.fellowshipchicagomusic.comIt couldn’t have been easy for Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church Senior Pastor Charles Jenkins to step into the shoes of the Chicago church’s iconic founder, pastor and Civil Rights leader Rev. [...]
TBGB Pick of the Week: March 26, 2012
“I Am God”Cynthia SimonsFrom the CD ThankfulWhen singer, songwriter and actress Cynthia Simons sings that God is a healer, she has the testimony to reinforce her belief.Simons, who has shared the stage with gospel icons such as Rev. James Cleveland, Fred Hammond, Shirley Caesar and Walter Hawkins, is a twenty-year [...]
