Today we are featuring the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University! This chorus was first brought togethe
Today we are featuring the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University! This chorus was first brought together as a fundraising group for the university, but their talent led them to national and international fame. In the 1870’s, the group toured along the Underground Railroad and made trips to Germany and England, where they performed for Queen Victoria. The Library of Congress honored their contributions to music by adding their 1909 recording of “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” to the United States National Recording Registry in 2002.(images from G.D. Pike’s The Jubilee Singers and Their Campaign for Twenty Thousand Dollars (ML421 .J77 P63 1873) and J.B.T. Marsh’s The Story of the Jubilee Singers … (1880)) -- source link
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