From working as a cloakroom attendant at Ronnie Scott's in London to performing on the club stage to a sellout audience with one's own quartet is quite a journey. It might sound like a corny plot from ...

A renowned poet has a new album out Friday titled “The Gospel According To Nikki Giovanni.” In addition to publishing dozens of poetry works, Nikki Giovanni has recorded several spoken word albums ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- They came from the coal mines and steel mills of Alabama, raising their voices to the sky. They sang hymns and spirituals with vivid and complex harmonies, attacking the tunes ...

When the recording sessions were done and the quartet was on the plane back home, they realized yet another change was in order: the name of their project. The members of the Classic Gospel Sons ...

Walk into the First Baptist Church of Bridgehampton as service begins, and the very first sound you’ll hear is music. “We welcome you,” the five women of the Joyful Praise choir sang on a recent rainy ...

The Oak Ridge Boys will soon have a new album of gospel hymns available for their fans. The quartet, made up of Duane Allen, Joe Bonsall, William Lee Golden and Richard Sterban, will release Rock of ...

On Jan. 21, the Boston Microtonal Society presents a concert including an American classic, Ben Johnston's String Quartet No. 4, "Amazing Grace," composed of variations on that hymn's standard tune.

Click to open image viewer. Book of hymns by P.P. Bliss and Ira D. Sankey, 112-pages, discolored cover with black printing, text and binding. Text reads "Gospel hymns No. 2, BY PP. BLISS AND IRA D.

Not long ago a radio speaker declared that a good Bible hour is better than a dozen sermons. One may be justified in saying also that a good evangelical hymn is better than much of the preaching one ...

The Negro spirituals : plantation songs and jubilee songs, 1600-1870 -- The gospel songs : gospel hymns, historical gospel, and traditional songs, songs of Tindley, Dorsey, Campbell, and others, ...