Festival founder Ladyfag walks us through the challenges, pains and triumphs of an event that has become a Pride Month ...

They perform inspirational and sacred music including hymns, anthems, African American spirituals and original compositions in a classical style. In 2017, the nonprofit Carter Center invited them ...

The last update includes songs known well in other Christian faiths, and this new update includes "Amazing Grace," which was composed in 1772 by English cleric and abolitionist John Newton.

It’s one of the most popular hymns in the Christian songbook – but apparently the benefits of Amazing Grace are not purely ... a variety of different songs on the blood vessels of older ...

Amazing Grace might be the ultimate song of redemption, steeped in two centuries of black history, but its writer had also been a slave ship captain. There is no shortage of versions of Amazing Grace.

Amazing Grace might be the ultimate song of redemption, steeped in two centuries of black history, but its writer had also been a slave ship captain. Amazing Grace was the perfect choice.

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Amazing Grace. By James Walvin ... offers a cultural history of the song. Its origins explain its power. The author—the “wretch” of the first verse—was John Newton, an Englishman and ...

He notes that America had a robust popular musical culture, credited partly to its ethnic and cultural diversity, which was particularly suited for a simple, engaging song like "Amazing Grace." ...

(RNS) — James Walvin, a former Church of England choirboy and professor of history at the University of York, doesn’t remember encountering “Amazing Grace,” in song or in his hymnal.

“The heavier songs that you think will be easier to lay down fast, as good as they are on the record, actually ended up benefiting from having more time to develop.” Even though the album is titled ...

Ten choirs joined together to perform as a 250-voice choir for the special performance A new song to mark the 250th anniversary of the hymn Amazing Grace has had its first public performance.