In the North Carolina sharecropper’s shanty where Glenn Settle grew up, his mother used to sing the old Negro spirituals to him. Between songs, she told him: “If white and colored folks just got to ...

"It was the spiritual song – or Negro Spiritual – that gave hope to American slaves as they cried out to God, asking him to send a “Moses” to lead them out of their bondage as He did with the Hebrew ...

Goggans grew up in East Cleveland and the University Circle neighborhood/area knowing early in life that music, he played drums in his family’s church, and performing was his future. When CCGS started ...

For the first time, traditional Negro spirituals will be sung as an opera, when Seattle Opera hosts the world premiere of “Jubilee,” on October 12. You can listen to the music and the story of how ...