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Live@Lanier – History in Song of Spirituals and Gospel Music
February 28, 2019 @ 6:00 pm
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The Stony Knoll Gospel Quartet from the Stony Knoll Christian Methodist Episcopal Church joins us for an evening on the history of spirituals and gospel music. Betty Landrum, retired retail worker, Reverend Arbutus Hines, pastor, Barbara Cummings, retired school teacher, and her sister, Alinda Jackson, retired LPN, form the quartet who have been singing as a choir quartet for 7 years with Alinda Jackson as choir director and church pianist. The members of the Stony Knoll Gospel Quartet describe their music as a mix of traditional and contemporary, hymns and gospel songs. Musicologists write that a hymn is for praising God and gospel music is directed to the congregation warning of sin and promising salvation.