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 ...

GLENSIDE — “An Afternoon of Spirituals and Hymns” was presented recently by Joann Frasier Dasent, founder of Regenerating Our Offspring Through Stories, Inc., to bring her collegiate thesis “The ...

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.

(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 ...

What happens when you introduce traditional hymns and spirituals into the jazz idiom? You get the Mark Sterbank Group's annual mix of the sacred with swing. It's mostly sacred, though. These are ...

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; ...