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Donald Lawrence to Revive the Edwin Hawkins Music & Arts Seminar as “Music + Arts Global”
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.
Elder Arlester Washington & the Anointed Central Kentucky Mass Choir – Thank You
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)
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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Bob Marovich of the Journal of Gospel Music interviews gospel recording artist Lil Prince.
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Donald Lawrence to Revive the Edwin Hawkins Music & Arts Seminar as “Music + Arts Global”
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.
Elder Arlester Washington & the Anointed Central Kentucky Mass Choir – Thank You
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)
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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Michael CorcoranHe Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul of Arizona DranesTompkins Square (available September 4, 2012)www.tompkinssquare.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.In He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul [...]
Pamela Johnson Destiny Resurrected www.pamelajohnsononline.com By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog Psalmist Pamela Johnson of Palmetto, Georgia, calls her album, Destiny Resurrected, the “soundtrack to my miracle of healing, [...]
Darryl HenryExhortation, Praise & EdificationRhema Records (2012)www.DarrylHenry.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Darryl Henry, also known as “Elder D,” does almost everything on his new release, Exhortation, Praise & [...]
The New York Times remembrance of the late Willa Ward of the Ward Singers.Click here: Willa Ward
Special thanks to Gray Megan for taking on this assignment.Gladys Beamon Gregory, 1925-2012
“The Race”Benjamin Cone III & WORSHIPMuscle Shoals Sound Gospel (2010)www.malaco.comFeatured vocalist on the Mississippi Mass Choir’s hit, "God Made Me," Benjamin Cone III leads his own group, WORSHIP, on a loping contemporary [...]
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By Robert Marovich
In A City Called Heaven, gospel announcer and music historian Robert Marovich shines a light on the humble origins of a majestic genre and its indispensable bond to the city where it found its voice: Chicago.
By Robert Marovich
In A City Called Heaven, gospel announcer and music historian Robert Marovich shines a light on the humble origins of a majestic genre and its indispensable bond to the city where it found its voice: Chicago.
