5065001711107

Freedom Song: When Gospel Came To The Empire

Harvey Brough

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: SMU610

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Release Date:  17 March 2023

Label:  Smudged Discs

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  5065001711107

Genres:  Classical  Gospel  

  • Description

    Freedom Song: When Gospel Came to the Empire, tells the true story of the Jubilee Singers.

    In 1871 a group of singers from Nashville, Tennessee, took to the road to raise money for their university. But this was no ordinary student choir. The Fisk Jubilee Singers were freed slaves. Their mission was not only to build the first black University after emancipation but to fight for the right of all African Americans to be educated.

    A century and a half later, community choir Vox Holloway is teaming up with the Hackney Empire Community Choir and young people from local schools to tell the Jubilee Singers' inspiring story. Working from diaries, historical records and the choir's own songbook, composer Harvey Brough and playwright Justin Butcher have reconstructed their struggles.

    The choir is joined by a professional band and soloists on a musical journey which celebrates the power of music to overcome oppression and bring people from all backgrounds together.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Nobody Knows The Trouble I See, Lord
      • 2. Jes' Like The Hogs
      • 3. There Is A Balm In Gilead
      • 4. We Was Scared O' The Overseer And His Whip
      • 5. In Bright Mansions Above
      • 6. John Brown - Dixieland
      • 7. We Can't Git Out On The Road
      • 8. John Brown II - Battle Of The Two Tunes
      • 9. Abraham Lincoln - George White
      • 10. Woke Up This Morning - I
      • 11. Infants To Greybeards
      • 12. Great Getting Up Morning
      • 13. Growing Anxiety
      • 14. Oh, I'm A Going To Sing
      • 15. Progress Made By These Singing Classes
      • 16. He's The Lily Of The Valley
      • 17. Some Air Of Mystery
      • 18. Steal Away - I
      • 19. We Never Dream O' Singing These Songs In Public
      • 20. Woke Up This Morning - II
      • 21. The Gospel Train Is Coming - I
      • 22. We Shall Walk Through The Valley In Peace
      • 23. The Gospel Train Is Coming - II

      Disc 2

      • 1. Roll, Jordan, Roll
      • 2. Roll, Jordan, Roll - II
      • 3. The Jubilee Singers
      • 4. Deep River
      • 5. Mr Mark Twain
      • 6. Steal Away - II
      • 7. Worthy A Place In History
      • 8. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
      • 9. But What Of Us?
      • 10. Go Down, Moses
      • 11. A Man Of Sorrows
      • 12. Words O' Freedom
      • 13. Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
      • 14. Listen To The Angels Shouting
      • 15. The Dream And Hope Of The Slave
      • 16. John Brown - Final
      • 17. Freedom Chorus