Gospelfest 2023 at the Meyerhoff Baltimore, Md.
It is one of 3000 songs penned by a black blues musician, Thomas Dorsey. It has also become the bedrock of what has become THE BLACK CHURCH.
It is not what Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John had in mind, when they wrote the Gospel (Good News) about the New Jerusalem of which Jesus is King.
Slavery, discrimination and the brutal killings of Africans in America and Europe, pushed the black man to look for salvation through song. To close his eyes, stomp his feet, clap his hands, and sing out to Jesus! And all around him in unison sang, “Amen”.
It has been 19 centuries since the Messiah left the earth. Not quite 2 centuries following emancipation,
It is one of 3000 songs penned by a black blues musician, Thomas Dorsey. It has also become the bedrock of what has become THE BLACK CHURCH.
It is not what Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John had in mind, when they wrote the Gospel (Good News) about the New Jerusalem of which Jesus is King.
Slavery, discrimination and the brutal killings of Africans in America and Europe, pushed the black man to look for salvation through song. To close his eyes, stomp his feet, clap his hands, and sing out to Jesus! And all around him in unison sang, “Amen”.
It has been 19 centuries since the Messiah left the earth. Not quite 2 centuries following emancipation,
what was once despicable folk music, embedded in the African soul, found its way mimicking a crescendo, in concert halls, loved, and cheered by all races!
JONATHAN RUSH, (a black man of African lineage) is an Associate Conductor of the BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, and it was his idea to put gospel music on the BSO marquee. He named it GOSPELFEST 2023
It is one of 3000 songs penned by a black blues musician, Thomas Dorsey. It has also become the bedrock of what has become THE BLACK CHURCH.
It is not what Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John had in mind, when they wrote the Gospel (Good News) about the New Jerusalem of which Jesus is King.
Slavery, discrimination and the brutal killings of Africans in America and Europe, pushed the black man to look for salvation through song. To close his eyes, stomp his feet, clap his hands, and sing out to Jesus! And all around him in unison sang, “Amen”.
It has been 19 centuries since the Messiah left the earth. Not quite 2 centuries following emancipation.
Major players in GOSPELFEST 2023
What was once despicable folk music, embedded in the African soul, found its way mimicking a crescendo, in concert halls, loved, and cheered by all races!
JONATHAN RUSH, (a black man of African lineage) is an Associate Conductor of the BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, and it was his idea to put gospel music on the BSO marquee. He named it GOSPELFEST 2023.
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