2024 Annual Festival of Negro Spirituals
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Sat, Apr 27
Join us in Keeping the Legacy of the Negro Spiritual Alive by attending our annual Festival of the Negro Spiritual! Hosted at Baptist Bible Fellowship thanks to the generosity of Pastor James Jenkins. Featuring our dear friends Heritage from Baton Rouge, and the wonderful Grambling State University Concert Choir, along with the Ebony Jubilee Singers children’s choir and our own New Dimensions Choral Society choir.
— Participating Choirs —
- Grambling State University Concert Choir under the direction of Dr. Cordara Harper — they’re amazing!
- Heritage of Baton Rouge (which held a similar Festival of Spirituals there two weeks before ours each year, in which we participate), under the direction of Clarence Jones
- Ebony Jubilee Singers, a Northwest Louisiana children’s choir under the direction of our own John Collins
- And, of course, us, the New Dimensions Choral Society under the direction of our own Artistic Director Patricia Britton-Hall, with special directors Natorshau Davis and Nolan Budgewater II and a wonderful Tenor solo by Anthony Cheathem
(This list may be updated. Watch this space!)
Free & open to the public! A love offering will be requested. Reception will follow (free food!).
Funding has been provided by The Black Cultural Arts Coalition of Shreveport. We are deeply grateful for their support.
- Event on our NDCS Facebook Page
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