Deceased Sly Stone's the Stewart Four single chronicled. THE EARLY Years of recently deceased Sly Stone are mentioned in the cover story about the musical giant in the August issu ...

ONE OF The Winans gospel music dynasty, Juan Winans, who came to prominence as a member of Winans Phase 2 and went on to become a session singer or guest on dozens of R&B and gospel recordings, is ...

THE MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST Dave Bainbridge and singer Sally Minnear have been touring England together since June. Dave Bainbridge co-founded Celtic music pioneers Iona, who released 13 albums, and has ...

COVENTRY songsmith Rob Halligan will be playing the Warwick Folk Festival on 25th July; Skipton's Scargill Summerfest on 3rd August and the Greenbelt festival on 23rd August. Rob's planned Autumn Tour ...

THE FORMER rhythm guitarist with rock icons Anberlin, Nathan Strayer, who played with the band from 2004 to 2007 including on their pivotal album 'Cities', has passed away. Strayer parted company with ...

With the dramatic fall in credibility and commerciality of Australia's Hillsong mega church and its youth culture offspring Hillsong United, worship artist Benjamin William Hastings has emerged from ...

Before Delirious?, before the World Wide Message Tribe, even before Graham Kendrick developed his worship persona, the most popular purveyor of Christian music in Britain was a ...

The success of "Jesus Is A Friend Of Mine" by New York-based band Sonseed is not only one of the strangest tales involving Christian music but is also one of the oddest sagas in the history of the ...

Tony Cummings unpacks the fascinating tale of a groundbreaking group often overlooked by gospel music historians, THE HEAVENLY GOSPEL SINGERS It has become an acknowledged fact of popular music ...

The Swanee Quintet are gospel music survivors - an old style vocal group who over the decades have travelled the Gospel Highway playing everything from humble storefront churches to Carnegie Hall and ...

Recently Cross Rhythms' radio stations began playing "Jai Jai Naam Yeshu Naam" by Sheldon Bangura making it the first track sung in Hindi selected for the CR playlist. Sheldon's skilled blend of East ...

In the occasional series Tony Cummings looks at seminal Christian music old and new. Here he remembers GRAHAM KENDRICK 's 1987 worship favourite "Shine Jesus Shine" ...