*Gospel music uplifts and inspires helping to brighten the dim lights of trouble and despair. “Precious Lord, lead me on, let me stand. I am tired, I am weak, I am worn.” Lyrics from the classic ...

What has been a very good year for the live performance of gospel music on film is about to get better. First came the release of “Amazing Grace,” the record of a legendary 1972 Aretha Franklin gospel ...

As filmmaking, George T. Nierenberg’s “Say Amen, Somebody” is perfectly capable, if pedestrian. Not that filmmaking is what this 1982 gospel-music documentary cares about. What the movie cares about ...

Documentarian George T. Nierenberg's newly restored 'Say Amen, Somebody' finds two gospel pioneers passing the torch to a younger generation in Chicago. By John DeFore In 1979, George T. Nierenberg’s ...

Explore the authentic spiritual experience of African American gospel music in the one-hour performance documentary "Amen! Music Of The Black Church." Taped before a live audience at the Second ...

The Miami Mass Choir, seen performing at the North Beach Bandshell in 2021, is one of the performance groups in the Free Gospel Sundays series at the Adrienne Arsht Center There will be singing in the ...

Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum is showing a documentary about the American gospel music scene on Jan. 4 at 2:30 p.m. The 1982 film, “Say Amen, Somebody,” is preceded at 1:15 with a tour of the ...

There will be singing in the streets as the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts unleashes its Free Gospel Sundays series, now in its 16th year. Jekalyn Carr, who at 25 years old has become ...