Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Good morning, friends! This is Tennessean storytelling columnist Brad Schmitt, honored to bring you the story of triumph and ...
Fisk Memorial Chapel felt like a college reunion Friday, and it was a family reunion for some as friends of Mandisa Hundley gathered to celebrate a woman they called a friend and sister. Hundley was a ...
Crystal A. deGregory, Ph.D. is a proud 2003 graduate of the historic Fisk University and is a research fellow at Middle Tennessee State University's Center for Historic Preservation. A little over 150 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Thursday, the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) announced that it will soon present an immersive Fisk Jubilee ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — To honor their history as Nashville’s earliest ambassadors of music and to commemorate the 150 th anniversary of the ensemble, the Fisk Jubilee Singers hosted and perform at ...
Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up Fisk University in Nashville is one of the first Historically ...
It's been more than a century since the Fisk University Jubilee singers started performing Negro spirituals and slave songs. Today, the Fisk singers are still spreading the songs of enslaved Africans ...
Former Fisk Jubilee Singers Arica Ellis, Kimberly Fleming and George Cooper talked about their years in the iconic choir and how they feel about returning to the university for the Fisk Jubilee ...
In recent years, efforts to diversify the Western musical canon have received plenty of attention. This Sunday, two groups committed to that mission will take the stage at Blumenthal Performing Arts’ ...
The Ryman Auditorium's 130th anniversary coincides with the 150th anniversary of historically Black Fisk University's Jubilee Singers. The two Nashville institutions are separated by the delineations ...
*The Fisk Jubilee Singers, founded at the HBCU 150 years ago and instrumental in preserving America’s treasured Negro spirituals, has added another accolade to its rich history – a Grammy Award. At ...
He took the storied Black musical group to new heights, including its first Grammy win and a National Medal of Arts. By Clay Risen Paul T. Kwami, the longtime director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, who ...