The Jubilee Singers depart from Nashville for their first tour of the United States. George White had planned a route in keeping with the Underground Railroad, a network of churches and private ...

Music City's ties to trailblazing Black musicians like those are on vivid display in a video series by the Nashville Public ...

The Fisk University Jubilee Singers was the first group to publicly perform the songs of slaves and they shared them with the world. When the Fisk Jubilee Singers first performed in the late 1800s ...

Shannon Sanders, an African-American South Nashville native and award-winning BMI executive director of creative, reflects on ...

The well-known Fisk Jubilee Singers from Fisk University in Nashville performed to a sold-out crowd at the Historic Grove Theatre in Oak Ridge on Friday, March 29. The concert was a benefit for ...

They turned it over to refugees from the Chicago fire which broke out next day, and set out on a tour which paved a glory-road for all Fisk Singers to come. Known as the Fisk Jubilee Singers they ...

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