The Blind Boys of Alabama with Shemekia Copeland

Name: The Blind Boys of Alabama with Shemekia Copeland
Start: 2025-04-07T19:30:00-05:00
Location: 1501 Goldstein Circle, 351 McCain Auditorium, Manhattan, KS, United States, Kansas 66506

Schedule

Mon, 07 Apr, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1501 Goldstein Circle, 351 McCain Auditorium, Manhattan, KS, United States, Kansas 66506 | Manhattan, KS

The Blind Boys of Alabama are recognized worldwide as living legends of gospel music. Celebrated by The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) with Lifetime Achievement Awards, inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, and winners of five Grammy® Awards, they have attained the highest levels of achievement in a career that spans over 70 years.
The Blind Boys are known for crossing multiple musical boundaries with their remarkable interpretations of everything from traditional gospel favorites to contemporary spiritual material. They have appeared on recordings with many artists, including Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel, Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Aaron Neville, Susan Tedeschi, Patty Griffin and Taj Mahal. The Blind Boys of Alabama have also appeared on “The Tonight Show,” “Late Night,” “The Grammy® Awards,” “60 Minutes,” and “The Colbert Report.”
Award-winning blues, soul and Americana singer Shemekia Copeland possesses one of the most instantly recognizable and deeply soulful roots music voices of our time, and is the winner of the 2021 Blues Music Award for B.B. King Entertainer Of The Year.
Shemekia Copeland has established herself as one of the leading blues artists of our time.
— NPR Music
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