Throughout February, WTOP is celebrating Black History Month. Join us on air and online as we bring you the stories, people and places that make up our diverse community. Jackson Caesar will be ...

When nine students and a music professor set off on a fundraising tour from Fisk University in Tennessee in 1871, they had no idea what lay ahead. They just hoped their talents as singers and the ...

The American Spiritual Ensemble is bringing the history and soul of American Negro spiritual music to Boston in their first tour of the Northeast. “I call it the 'mother music.' It's the music that ...

The new choir performed its inaugural concert in December. A year ago, Lansing’s Earl Nelson Singers gave their final concert. The group which sang African American spirituals had been performing in ...

First Presbyterian Church, like all churches, pays licensing fees for using music in worship (we do it through CCLI and OneLicense). There is no fee required for older music that is already in the ...

Some of Ashley Jackson's earliest memories took place at church services she attended with her grandmother. The rising harp player leaned into those experiences for her sophomore album Take Me to The ...

Fresh out of the auditorium after watching Brévo Theatre's production of Langston Hughes’ classic, “Black Nativity,” Darlene ...

The Jacobs School of Music voice department held the special performance, “A Celebration of African American and African Diasporic Song,” on Tuesday in honor of Black History Month. Performed in Auer ...

Jackson conjures up spiritual realms that glide like a raft on calm waters. Her mellifluous tone is augmented at times by extended techniques of her own, like using a pair of socks to partially mute ...