Gospel Is Alive! April 26, 2010

The legendary Blind Boys of Alabama will perform in the 2010 Gospel Is Alive! concert, the free annual senior citizen outreach effort of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell.

The 2010 Gospel Is Alive! free concert will take place Monday, April 26, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the New Hope Baptist Church (1807 LaSalle Street, New Orleans - map).

The Grammy-award winning Blind Boys of Alabama will perform first, followed by an awards ceremony honoring New Orleans gospel luminaries and a performance by the Mahalia Jackson Gospel Youth Choir.

The Gospel Is Alive! concert is an outreach program for senior citizens in the New Orleans area. The concert is also open to the public, free of charge, depending on seating availability.

Rhodes Life Insurance Co.and Peoples Health are proud sponsors of Gospel is Alive!

Founded in 1939, the Blind Boys of Alabama first began singing together at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind at Talladega.

Releases by the group in recent years have been favorites at the Grammy Awards - they won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album every year between 2002 to 2005. The Blind Boys of Alabama were inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2007. In 2009, they were awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Mahalia Jackson Youth Choir is an award-winning choir representing churches, schools and the community, now in its 18th year of performing. Recently, the choir performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, at the invitation of Marion Wright Edelman of the Children’s Defense Fund. The purpose of the choir is to build camaraderie with others and perpetuate gospel music. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell has been a longtime supporter of the choir.

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