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Music, Music Review Nov 4, 2020
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Tasha Cobbs Leonard celebrates unity in the historic Ryman Auditorium on her new live album
- By Robert Marovich
- Tags: Music Review, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Royalty: Live at the Ryman, Motown Gospel, Nashville, Ryman Auditorium, gospel music, Grand Ole Opry, Bethel Music, contemporary Christian music, We the Kingdom, Recommended, Video

Music, Music Review Aug 13, 2020
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Chicago Mass Choir invigorates traditional gospel on My Soul Says Yes
- By Robert Marovich
- Tags: Music Review, Chicago Mass Choir, My Soul Says Yes, New Haven Records, gospel music, Percy Gray Jr., Say Yes to My Lord, Felicia Welch, Mario Vaughn, Evelyn Branch, Dr. Feranda Williamson, Lemmie Battles, LaVarnga Hubbard, Cassandra Giles, Patricia Clifton, Ecclesiastes Community Choir, Recommended, Video

Arts & Culture, Architecture Oct 16, 2019
See the Bronzeville church that is the real birthplace of gospel

Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, one of more than 350 Open House Chicago sites this weekend, is significant musically and architecturally.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Architecture, Open House Chicago, Chicago Architecture Center, Bronzeville, Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church, Pilgrim Baptist, Dankmar Adler, Adler & Sullivan, Louis Sullivan, Auditorium Building, Auditorium Theatre, Adler and Sullivan, K.A.M. Temple, Garrick Theater, Chicago Stock Exchange, Temple Isaiah, Theodore Frye, Reverend James Howard Lorenzo Smith, Thomas A. Dorsey, Robert A. Marovich, A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music, Patricia Butts, Darryl N. Person, gospel music, Ma Rainey

Music, Music Feature Oct 9, 2019
The gospel according to Mama Lou

Lou Della Evans-Reid spent nearly 40 years as minister of music for Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church, but even at age 89 this trailblazer isn’t done spreading the good news.
- By F. Amanda Tugade
- Tags: Music Feature, Lou Della Evans-Reid, Ludella Evans, Clay Evans, Reverend Clay Evans, Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church, the Ship, Fellowship, gospel, gospel music, choir, music director, minister of music, First Church of Deliverance, Gospel Music According to Chicago, Jesse Jackson, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Kanye West, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Richard J. Daley, Pam Morris-Walton, Chicago Gospel Music Festival, WVON, A New Name in Glory, What a Fellowship Hour, Bishop Walter Hawkins, Love Center Choir, Reverend C.L. Franklin, Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, James Cleveland, Brownsville, Tennessee, Lux Singers, Operation PUSH, Muhammad Ali, Pastor DeAndre Patterson, Destiny Worship Center, Miracle Revival Cathedral, Christian Tabernacle Church, George Ryan, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Pharis Evans, Joseph Evans, Greater Harvest Baptist Church, Greater Grace Church, Malcolm Williams, Fred Nelson III, Mama Lou

Blogs, Bleader Dec 23, 2016
Rahm Emanuel releases several years’ worth of e-mails, and other Chicago news

Also, outgoing Republican senator Mark Kirk laments the lost of the moderate establishment in the age of Trump.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Rahm Emanuel, Bruce Rauner, Better Government Association, government transparency, gang violence, gun violence, gangs, Mark Kirk, Republican Party, Chicago, Donald Trump, Tammy Duckworth, Aaron Schock, Peoria, Mavis Staples, Prince, Kennedy Center Honors, soul music, gospel music

Music, Music Feature May 28, 2015
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Spreading the good word about Chicago gospel

Scholar Robert Marovich documents gospel’s Windy City roots in a new book and recommends five Chicago acts at this weekend's Gospel Music Festival
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Feature, Robert Marovich, Chicago Gospel Music Festival, Millennium Park, DePaul University, gospel music, Notre Dame University, Cosmopolitan Church of Prayer, A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music, Patricia Andrews Marovich, Kirk Franklin, O'Landa Draper, Gospel Memories, Loyola University, Journal of Gospel Music, Wow Gospel, The Gospel Sound, the Great Migration, A City Called Heaven, Mahalia Jackson, Edwin Hawkins, Andrae Crouch, Robert Anderson, Dexter Walker & Zion Movement, Southside Neighborhood Gospel Festival, Ricky Dillard & New G, The Promise, Amazing, Anita Wilson, East Saint Louis, Worship Soul, James Cleveland, Vintage Worship, Jonathan McReynolds, The Tommies Reunion, Reverend Milton Brunson, Dee Clark, Aldrea Lenox, Jessy Dixon, Loretta Oliver, Vernon Oliver Price, Kim McFarland, Leanne Faine, The Brown Sisters, The Brown Sisters: Live in Chicago, the Clark Sisters, the Pointer Sisters, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 12, 2014
What Pilsen taught Chuy Garcia

Between his years in a little village in Mexico and Little Village in Chicago, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia learned a lot about race and ethnicity in Pilsen.
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Neighborhoods, Politics, News, Jesus Garcia, Chuy Garcia, Pilsen, Chicago Newsroom, Ken Davis, Chicago mayoral election, Durango, Mexico, Mexican-Americans, Jirka elementary, Pilsen Community Academy, Saint Procopius elementary, Maxwell Street Market, Little Village, Martin Luther King, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, gospel music, Cesar Chavez

Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Dec 12, 2013
The Secret History of Chicago Music: Georgia Tom Dorsey

He had his biggest hit as a raunchy bluesman, but today Thomas A. Dorsey is known as "the father of gospel music."
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, Georgia Tom Dorsey, The Secret History of Chicago Music, Thomas A. Dorsey, Villa Rica, Georgia, Atlanta, Ed Butler, Lark Lee, Eddie Heywood, Barrel House Tom, Will Walker, Whispering Syncopators, Chicago Music Publishing Company, Paramound records, Vocalion records, gospel music, W.M. Nix, blues, Ma Rainey, Wild Cats Jazz Band, Tampa Red, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Memphis Minnie, National Baptist Convention, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Pigrim Baptist Church, National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses, Oak Woods Cemetery

Music, Music Feature Jun 26, 2013
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The long game of soul singer Doug Shorts

He's been a doorman, a karate instructor, even an extra in an Adam Sandler movie—and now, after decades of trying, he might finally make it in the music business.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Doug Shorts, Wells High School, Chatham, Chess Records, Shades of Brown, soul, vocal soul, funk, Cermakk, Cherries Records, R&B, 45s, seven-inches, Andrew Brearley, records, Herb Butler, WHPK, Master Plan Inc., Bob Abrahamian, record collectors, The Players, Meaty Ogre, doormen, Galapagos4, Brian "Robust" Kuptzin, Sheila Hernando, DJ Shred One, Jazzman, compilations, Numero Group, Frank Dukes, Dap-Kings, Homer Steinweiss, Frederick Douglass Shorts, The Mannequins, The Visitors, Joe Stevenson, Dean Knox, James Clark Revue, Eddie Manning, The Fugitives, Archie Brooks, song-writing, David Rivkin, David Z., record producers, Ed Cody, Brunswick, Gary Jackson, Raymond Haley, Mundo, vanity labels, Wabash YMCA, Motown, Roosevelt Purifoy, Buccellati, mvoies, cassettes, gospel music, CDs, albums, home studios, Funkland, Record Dugout, Steve Batinich, Joe Lopez, Numero Group, Rob Sevier, tapes, acetates, Video

Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife Jun 19, 2013
Critics' Picks
Best Reimagining of the Work of Gospel Singer Washington Phillips

Advance Base, The World Is in a Bad Fix Everywhere (Orindal)
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music & Nightlife, Best of Chicago 2013, Washington Phillips, gospel music, Owen Ashworth, Advance Base, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, EPs, Critics' Picks

Music, Music Review Feb 5, 2013
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The 53rd annual University of Chicago Folk Festival

Blues-guitar scion Elmore James Jr., bluegrass greats Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, and more
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Music Review, blues, bluegrass, Elmore James Jr., Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, workshops, Daithi Sproule, James Kelly, Danny Paisley, Reed Island Rounders, Sheryl Cormier, gospel music, Cajun music, bagpipes, Appalachian music, southern music, Evening Light Brothers, Terry Oldfield, classes, Mandel Hall, University of Chicago, Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Jul 11, 2012
Crowns's jewels?

The highlights of Regina Taylor's musical are its songs, its voices, and those hats
- By Zac Thompson
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Goodman Theatre, gospel music, outsider art, Regina Taylor, Michael Cunningham, Craig Mayberry, hat etiquette, Pentecostal traditions, Revelation, Karen Perry, Felicia Fields, E. Faye Butler

Blogs, Bleader Oct 14, 2011
Aaron Cohen celebrates his new book about Aretha's "Amazing Grace"

Aaron Cohen celebrates the publication of his new book about Aretha Franklin's classic gospel album "Amazing Grace" with a free event at the Chicago Cultural Center on Sunday afternoon.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Free Shit, Post No Bills, Swag, Aaron Cohen, Aretha Franklin, Amazing Grace, Chicago Cultural Center, gospel music, Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bar

Blogs, Bleader Jul 11, 2011
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Terrible presidential candidate also terrible singer

Get on the other Cain train, which is about hating Herman Cain's gospel singing.
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Crickets, Music, Herman Cain, David Liebe Hart, gospel music, politics, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 16, 2008
Just announced: Mavis Staples at the Hideout

Gospel-soul great Mavis Staples will record a live album at the Hideout.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Gospel Music, Mavis Staples

Blogs, Bleader Mar 16, 2007
Praise the Lord and pass the collection plate

WLUW is throwing a gospel-music benefit.
- By Monica Kendrick
- Tags: Music, Crickets, Gospel Music, WLUW

Blogs, Bleader Aug 15, 2006
The real gospel funk

The Numero Group sheds the light on Gospel Funk
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Gospel Music, Soul Music, Soul Jazz Records, Numero Group

Arts & Culture, Theater Critic's Choice May 20, 1999
A Piece of My Soul
- By Mary Shen Barnidge
- Tags: Theater Critic's Choice, Victory Gardens, Gospel Music, Arie Crown Theater, McCormick Place

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Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, one of more than 350 Open House Chicago sites this weekend, is significant musically and architecturally.

Lou Della Evans-Reid spent nearly 40 years as minister of music for Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church, but even at age 89 this trailblazer isn’t done spreading the good news.

Also, outgoing Republican senator Mark Kirk laments the lost of the moderate establishment in the age of Trump.

Scholar Robert Marovich documents gospel’s Windy City roots in a new book and recommends five Chicago acts at this weekend's Gospel Music Festival

Between his years in a little village in Mexico and Little Village in Chicago, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia learned a lot about race and ethnicity in Pilsen.

He had his biggest hit as a raunchy bluesman, but today Thomas A. Dorsey is known as "the father of gospel music."

He's been a doorman, a karate instructor, even an extra in an Adam Sandler movie—and now, after decades of trying, he might finally make it in the music business.

Advance Base, The World Is in a Bad Fix Everywhere (Orindal)

Blues-guitar scion Elmore James Jr., bluegrass greats Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, and more

The highlights of Regina Taylor's musical are its songs, its voices, and those hats

Aaron Cohen celebrates the publication of his new book about Aretha Franklin's classic gospel album "Amazing Grace" with a free event at the Chicago Cultural Center on Sunday afternoon.

Get on the other Cain train, which is about hating Herman Cain's gospel singing.

Gospel-soul great Mavis Staples will record a live album at the Hideout.

WLUW is throwing a gospel-music benefit.

The Numero Group sheds the light on Gospel Funk

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