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 ...

When tenor singer, educator, conductor and music director Everett McCorvey was a child in Montgomery, Alabama, his father was a deacon at First Baptist Church, where civil rights activist Rev. Ralph ...

As a teenager, Jeff Crosby longed to be a long-haul trucker steering an 18-wheeler. Instead, he has worked on a farm, a factory floor, a steak-house kitchen, in a sports-editing spot, and as a ...

Soul is the intangible essence of being human. You can’t see it or touch it, but you can certainly feel it. Soul music, on the other hand, evolved from gospel and R&B, which are two forms that embody ...