NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - It’s a once in a decade opportunity happening at the National Museum of African American Music.

Set foot on the Fisk University campus and you ... in the intricate stone arches of Cravath Hall. The floor-to-ceiling portrait of the first Fisk Jubilee Singers hanging in Jubilee Hall.

She highlighted the contributions of American composer and bandleader, Lil Hardin Armstrong, a former undergraduate student at Fisk University who lived in Jubilee Hall. The late jazz pianist made ...

It was after watching a documentary on the Fisk University Jubilee ... first heard it,” he said. "Jubilee" runs from Oct. 12 through Oct. 26 at Seattle’s McCaw Hall.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Nashville wouldn’t have the nickname Music City without the Fisk Jubilee Singers. The spiritual singers, formed in 1871, are credited with saving Fisk University from ...

The choir, founded in 1987, will be part of a Jubilee Day celebration at Lagerquist Concert Hall at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma on Oct. 6, the date the Fisk singers embarked on their ...

Fisk University opened in Nashville in 1866 as the first American university to offer a liberal arts education to “young men and women irrespective of color.” Five years later the school was in dire ...

Oxford, OH – Miami University Performing Arts Series is honored to host the renowned Fisk Jubilee Singers for a special performance on Friday, September 20, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. in Hall Auditorium.

Fisk University projected it would accrue a more than $3 million deficit over the summer unless Nashville leaders approved its request to repurpose pandemic relief funds. The Tennessean obtained a ...

Fisk University, hitherto housed in a former Union Army barracks, was able to build its first permanent structure, the proudly towering Jubilee Hall, thanks to the fortune these impoverished student ...

Fisk University was established in 1866 to educate formerly enslaved people. By 1871, however, Fisk was severely in debt and the choral ensemble, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, traveled the world and ...