Real history and amazing songs blend in Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s new production of “Jubilee,” which playwright and director Tazewell Thompson describes as a “nakedly a cappella” journey into ...

One of the largest and most significant forms of American folksongs, the Negro spiritual, has a long history in America, but how do these religious songs relate to the music heard in the Black church ...

During the era of slavery, those who labored in captivity pioneered a musical motif that began as “unaccompanied songs of sorrow and hope," said Everett McCorvey, founder, director and principal ...

The American Spiritual Ensemble is bringing the history and soul of American Negro spiritual music to Boston in their first tour of the Northeast. “I call it the 'mother music.' It's the music that ...

BESTLOVED NEGRO SPIRITUALS : COMPLETE LYRICS TO 178 SONGS OF FAITH COMPILED AND EDITED BY NICOLE BEAULIEU HERDER WITH RONALD HERDER FOREWORD BY PAUL T KWAMI ...

A hundred or so masked parishioners in the pews of the United Parish in Brookline joined together at a recent service and sang "Lord, I Want To Be A Christian In My Heart.” This song, like many that ...

The musical runs through Jan. 29. Tickets are available online at asf.net, or by calling the ASF box office at 334-271-5353. Real history and amazing songs blend in Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s new ...