Walk into most black churches Sunday morning and you're more likely to hear the choir sing from the gospel top 40 list than sing old-time "Negro spirituals" or hymns from traditional hymnbooks.

Watching J. Weldon Norris coach the internationally acclaimed Howard University Choir through a set of spirituals is something of a revelation for both the listener and the singer. That’s because ...

Horace Clarence Boyer is a teacher, musician, director, performer, arranger, lecturer, historian and entertainer when he shares his knowledge of the origins of African-American sacred music. Even when ...

“Steal away, steal away, steal away to Jesus. “Steal away, steal away home. “I ain’t got long to stay here.” To the slave owner, the melody was just keeping his slaves happy as they worked. He paid ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) WEST OAK LANE >> When Joann Frasier Dasent decided to produce a production at her mother’s West Oak Lane ...

(RNS) — Zion Earle, a member of the youth choir at the Hamilton-Garrett Center for Music and Arts in the Roxbury neighborhood, sings Negro spirituals like “My Lord! What a Morning” at concerts in the ...

Bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley is releasing a collection of hymns and spirituals. Nashville’s Rebel Records says the album, called “A Mother’s Prayer,” will be released April 19. Considered the ...

MIAMI, Okla. — The Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College choirs will present “On My Way to Canaan Land” at 7 p.m. Friday, April 16, in the NEO Fine Arts auditorium. The concert is free and open to the ...

It's Me, O Lord (Standin' In The Need Of Prayer); Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen; Spiritual; Wade In The Water; Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child; L'Amour De Moy; ...

COEBURN, Va. (AP) - Bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley is releasing a collection of hymns and spirituals. Nashville's Rebel Records says the album, called "A Mother's Prayer," will be released April 19.