The Fisk Jubilee Singers News

 
Johnson Victrola Museum to celebrate African-American music during June
Dover Post
The museum will feature the Fisk Jubilee Singers and James Europe Band on June 2, Fats Waller and Jellyroll Morton on June 9, Paul Robeson on June 16, Marian Anderson on June 23, and Duke Ellington on June 30. The programs will be held between 9 am and ...


 
Fisk singers' mission goes on
The Tennessean
Gail Kerr's column April 29 about the Fisk Jubilee Singers provides an opportunity to point out that the group visited the New Hampshire poet, John Greenleaf Whittier, in 1879 and sang for him. “He was overcome for once and wept with joy,” one ...


 
Musicians Corner at Centennial Park
Nashville Scene
Rounding out the afternoon are Sugar and The Hi-Lows — Amy Stroup and Trent Dabbs' chic update of throwback soul pop—and that most venerable of Nashville a cappella institutions, The Fisk Jubilee Singers. Did we mention the whole thing's free?


 
Forum: Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers at First Baptist Church
ithaca.com
The “jubilee singers” part of the Ithaca ensemble's name is inherited from the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Fisk College is an historically black school in Nashville, Tenn. It was founded in 1866, but was in financial trouble by 1871.


 
Fisk, TSU need game-changers in charge
The Tennessean
After all, many Middle Tennesseans know about Fisk's Jubilee Singers and TSU's Tigerbelle track greats. But what about Fisk's program for physics research and TSU's agriculture program? As noted in a May 6 Tennessean report, one candidate that could ...


 
Hollywood Reporter
Donna Summer's 'I Feel Love' Joins National Recording Registry
Hollywood Reporter
For example, the words “Swing down, sweet chariot/Stop, and let me ride” are an unmistakable reference to the influential spiritual recorded by the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Mothership Connection was released in late 1975 shortly after the arrival to ...

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Arts and entertainment calendar for May 3
Franklin Park Herald
In 1870 a white professor and his choir of nine freed slaves set out to raise money for their nearly penniless institution, Fisk University. By singing the “slave songs” of their most recent past, the Fisk Jubilee Singers raised more than $120000 for ...

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