Just announced: legendary gospel singer and 15-time Grammy Award winner CeCe Winans will join the National Symphony Orchestra at The Kennedy Center in D.C. for one night only!
On June 20, she will deliver a performance of chart-topping favorites and uplifting new music from her most recent project, Believe For It. Tickets go on sale on April 26!
Kukudoo, Joan Flemmings, Oshane Mais and Sebastian Braham will headline the upcoming Mother’s Day (May 14) Grand Gospel Concert in St. Ann. This experience is being presented by Sebastian Braham Ministries at the Holiday Haven Resort in Runaway Bay.
More than just a musical stage-show, they will also have a comedy segment with popular comedian Kathy ‘Tandehdeh’ Grant, who is most known for her role on The Ity and Fancy Cat Show. The headlining acts will be supported by Brother Chippy, Sister Arlene, Dereq McFarlane and others; with Love 101 FM’s Nadine Blair as the master of ceremony.
Starting time is 5pm, and there is a $3,500 entrance fee at the gate. Kids under 12 will be asked to pay only $1,000.
Houston, Texas-based singer and pianist Kim Burrell calls what she does “jazz gospel,” and her ability to write a good portion of the material she records and performs makes her a rarity in the gospel field. To say she started performing early would be an understatement, since she took her first vocal solo with a church choir when she was only one-year-old.
The daughter of a pastor and an evangelist singer, Burrell began her professional career with Rev. James Cleveland’s Gospel Music Workshop Choir, Trinity Temple Full Gospel Mass Choir of Dallas, and the Inspirational Sounds Mass Choir of Houston. Her recording debut came in 1995 with the release of Try Me Again on Pearl Records. The buzz around the release led to her signing with Tommy Boy Gospel, which released a second solo project, the Asaph Alexander Ward-produced Everlasting Life in 1998. Live in Concert followed in 2001, also on Tommy Boy. Unfortunately, the label folded a year later and she was briefly signed to Elektra Records but only recorded a handful of guest spots for the imprint, although she continued to make frequent live appearances.
In 2004 she made an unlikely guest turn on R. Kelly‘s “3-Way Phone Call” and sang with funkster George Clinton on his 2008 album, George Clinton and His Gangsters of Love. She has shared the stage with gospel artists Shirley Caesar, Donnie McClurkin, Karen Clark-Sheard, Yolanda Adams, Kirk Franklin, and Marvin Winans, among others, and has worked in the secular side of things with Missy Elliot, Chaka Khan, Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, and Harry Connick, Jr., to name just a few.
She released her first new studio album in 11 years, No Ways Tired, in 2009 on Shanachie Records. Another new studio effort, The Love Album, appeared from Shanachie two years later in 2011 and fared well on the Billboard charts, netting Burrell a Grammy nomination. Following 2015’s From a Different Place, Burrell teamed up with R&B star Pharrell Williams for the song “I See a Victory,” which was featured in the 2016 film Hidden Figures.
The second installment in Marsha Wade‘s soetry concert series is this Saturday, April 22nd. Titled Feast On Soetry, the event will feature live performances by three poets: Angela Williams, Darren Salmon and Isilda Clarke, as well as host and soet Marsha Wade.
Happening at the Rituals Coffee House, located at Shop #5 in the Village Plaza on Constant Spring Road in Kingston, the highly anticipated event – which is scheduled to begin at 7pm – is already sold out! Notably, in addition to the live entertainment patrons will also receive repasts, drinks and desserts.
Queen Entertainment LLC presents The Revival Fire Gospel Explosion on Sunday, April 30th at the Praise Works Family Church – 2312 Dorrington Drive – in Dallas, Texas.
There will be a live performance by Grammy Award winner Le’Andria Johnson, shifting and exhalation by the world renowned Dr. Pedra Geter, a presentation by powerhouse Tiffany Andrews, and intercessor Terri Raven. The organizer is promising a night of praise, worship and fire!
The annual Mother’s Day Celebration returns to Atlanta, Georgia this Mother’s Day – Sunday, May 14 – at the Fox Theatre (660 Peachtree Street North East).
The artist line-up includes four of the biggest names in gospel music: Marvin Sapp, Shirley Caesar, Le’Andria Johnson and Charles Jenkins. It will be hosted by comedian Jonathan Slocumb, and tickets can be purchased from foxtheatre-dot-org.
Lifestyle Credit Genius presents Memorial Gospel Fest on Sunday, May 28th at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center – 151 Civic Center Way – in Royal Palm Beach, Florida.
The extensive lineup includes some very noteworthy Caribbean gospel performers: Bridget Blucher, Keesa Peart, Kukudoo, Prodigal, Petra Kaye, Second Chance, Pastor Jabez, and that is just to name a few. Click here for tickets.
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