Reminds me of the Sesame Street song, “One of these kids is not like the others….”

You may see a few younger people in the audience but nothing like you see in other genres. I didn’t mean to say that the Crabb/Crabb Revival was the ONLY thing keeping it alive, but I think those with a more comparable sound to that of their secular contemporaries are helping. I love the Isaacs, Austins Bridge is great as well. There are a few of them out there. I like a lot of the Gaither stuff too, but it is a far cry from the traditional sounding SG.

Another point is I am talking ticketed events. Events where the audience had to pay to see the event. Not just where it was their regular church service and they were going to be there anyway.

Another thing to consider is your location. In the south (Bible Belt), #34 would be a truer statement than in the rest of the country. I live in Ohio. I remember 20 years ago the SG scene was thriving. There were SG stations on FM radio, concerts almost every week. The SG scene today does not look anything like this. You are lucky to catch SG music on a weak AM signal between hacking preachers and the radio rosary programs. So, I think location has a lot to do with it as well.

I do quite a bit of traveling to all parts of the country and make sure to go to church even when I am not in my home town. I have seen this all over the country. SG is diminishing very quickly. And I feel without a “new sound” similar to that provided by previously mentioned groups the genre will dry up within 15 to 20 years. Especially the Quartet aspect of it.

I could not disagree with anything more on here! being one of those members of a younger generation of gospel music, I can tell you the crabb family is not the only thing keep it alive. Even at the gaither Homecomings you have a fair number of “younger” audience members…Signature sound is doing well drawing in a younger audence, Many artist are doing well drawing a younger audience…mark lowry, the Issacs, the ball brothers etc…..