The late Paul Kwami leads a rehearsal in Jubilee Hall on the Fisk University campus in June 2022. A large portrait of the original Singers (background) was a gift from Queen Victoria following a ...

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.

What’s more, a portrait of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers, commissioned by Queen Victoria, still hangs in that university hall today. Queen Victoria was so impressed by a performance of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.