by David Bruce Murray | Sep 26, 2017 | Awards Shows, History, Major Concert Events
The SGMA benefit showcase on Tuesday afternoon featured an array of performances plus four Hall Of Fame inductions. There was also a plea for more fans to join the SGMA. (The cost of membership is $20 per year.) HIGHLIGHTS Most groups avoided their showier pieces for...
by David Bruce Murray | Sep 26, 2017 | History, Major Concert Events
HIGHLIGHT: THE WORD It’s not difficult to choose a highlight from the Tuesday Chapel service. If Mark Trammell wasn’t a singer, he would be constantly on call as an evangelist. Mark brought a clear Word to us this morning. His scripture ranged from the...
by David Bruce Murray | Sep 26, 2017 | Concert Review, History, Major Concert Events, Reviews
2017 finds NQC comfortably settled in the fourth year in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. 2017 is the 61st year NQC has been held since the first event in 1957, or, as the branding goes this week, 2017 is the 60th anniversary of the 1957 event. I’m attending...
by David Bruce Murray | Sep 25, 2017 | History, Singing News
As the 61st National Quartet Convention is now underway in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, let us look back 47 years ago to the October 1970 issue of Singing News. The 14th National Quartet Convention in 1970 fell a couple of weeks after the publication of the October issue...
by David Bruce Murray | Sep 18, 2017 | History, Singing News
What was going on 47 years ago in Gospel Music? Here’s a snapshot from the September 1970 issue of The Singing News. A front-page article announced that concert promoters J G Whitfield, Lloyd Orrell, and W B Nowlin were uniting under the Skylite Talent banner....
by David Bruce Murray | Sep 13, 2017 | Awards Shows, History, Singing News
The oldest issue of Singing News in my collection is from July 1970, and that’s the issue I’ll be highlighting today. A First Time For Everything For the first dozen plus years, Singing News was in a newspaper format. The big headline at the top of the...
