Their voices are powerful and distinct. They are 40 of the District’s youngest gospel singers who make up the Washington Performing Arts Children of the Gospel Choir. The Washington Performing Arts ...
Children’s minister and artist collect 150 songs to span generations. In 2018, Britta Wallbaum and Lindsey Goetz traveled to a worship conference in Nashville. They hoped to come away with new ...
New children’s music resources go beyond holiday performances to cultivate a deeper theology and love of singing. At church services across the country this Christmas, wiggly kids will take the stage ...
Houston, who died Oct. 7, started out on the gospel circuit as a child, sang backup for Aretha Franklin and later guided her daughter, Whitney, to superstardom. Originally broadcast in 1998. This is ...
Can you feel the power? Do you know the sacred soul? Gospel music can be traced to the early 17th century, as hymns and sacred songs were created in a call and response way, influenced by ancestral ...
In the late 1990s a small group would gather at the McDonalds in Dayton, Tn. to sing the old Gospel songs. They brought their instruments and it was hamburgers and hymns. Eddie Hixson, who has been ...
Rooted in the rich tradition of African-American spirituals. Gospel music has evolved over time. The genre's earliest beginnings are found in the music sung, and passed down, by enslaved people in ...
There’s something about listening to great old-school style gospel songs that always seems to revive a tired soul. Over the years, gospel music’s most beloved vocalists have served up songs that have ...