NQC —
The only showcase I attended last week was the songwriter’s thing that Phil Cross hosted, mostly because I’m always curious to hear about and see a little into the creative minds behind songs. So often the way a songwriter writes or imagines a song is simply nothing like the way it’s sung and though the […]
A friend of mine who attended the Friday afternoon Brooklyn Tab showcase was kind enough to write up some reaction to it. Obviously, she’s a real fan, so feel free to quibble. But I did hear from several people that it was pretty good stuff.
Friday’s Brooklyn Tabernacle Singers’ performance was one of the […]
An anticlimactic conclusion to three long days, with a long weak lineup at the center, tonight was both interminable and largely tiresome, to the extent that I simply could not make it all the way to Legacy 5’s final set (which would have meant wading through the Dove Brothers). So tonight’s report will be brief(er). […]
Tonight’s concerts were a strange mix of the mundane, the magnificent, and the mediocre all jumbled together. If, as I suggested last night, NQC feels different this year, it is equally true that NQC Friday and Saturday are no longer the climax days for the convention. I can remember when I first started attending 15 […]
So color me ignorant, but during the course of a conversation at lunch today, the topic of radio interviews with artists came up and I discovered that it’s a common practice for radio stations to charge an artist for an interview. $100 for 15 minutes on a prominent sg radio station. $900 to be featured […]
*You know, I regret my use of the phrase “fairly innocuous” in the post below to describe Gerald Wolfe’s remarks. The reality is, the history of race and race relations in our society makes comments like this wrong, despite intentions. Period. Situation and contexts matter to some extent, of course, and this is what I […]
Good morning from Louisville. It’s been illuminating waking up to an inbox of comments commending me for my mellower commentary about last night’s music. That was not what I expected. I spent a good hour after I went to bed wondering if I had been unnecessarily harsh. Guess it could be MNP’s absence throwing me […]
To begin with: three notes.
First, a shout out to dear MNP, who normally travels with me (or I with her) to NQC but who couldn’t make the sojourn this year. I’m lost without her (literally: I was half way to downtown this afternoon before I figured out how to get back to 264E), […]
Anticipating the bloggers roundtable later this week at NQC, I’ve been thinking a lot about the progression of averyfineline from the anonymous upstart pariah it was when I began, to … well, the not anonymous upstart pariah it is today. In some ways, I’m a little anxious about this gathering. For starters, Marty Funderburke could […]
A clean space to report back from NQC, free from other diversions that sidetracked the last open forum. Post away.
Has the SN been down all day for anyone else besides me? And if so, didn’t this happen at the beginning of NQC not too long ago? No matter if my memory’s faulty or not (and it may be) what’s up with the prolonged downtime?
Update: According to the comments and a subsequent note from Danny […]
The BBC is, as others have already noted, planning to shoot (part of?) a documentary on sg at this year’s 50th Anniversary NQC. The Elvis angle hinted at in the press release suggests we’d be wise to not get our hopes up. As I wrote in an article for an academic journal earlier this year, […]
A sad beginning to NQC week with news of Trenton Wood’s death. The SN’s coverage is here. The obituary from the local paper is here. The sogospelnews’s very short item is noteworthy mainly for its jarring reference to suicide. I’ve always thought suicide when used in news reports is a fairly technical term referring to […]
Or maybe there won’t even be a table. I’m not sure, really. It’s all very hush-hush you know. But a bunch of bloggers and other assorted writerly types who post stuff about music that may or may not be related mostly to southern gospel are getting together at NQC to talk about some things. Chuck […]
So the Florida Boys are going to go out in grand style at NQC this year. Thus an FB’s press release:
[T]he multi-award winning quartet has agreed to perform at all of their previously scheduled performance slots during the National Quartet Convention scheduled to be held in September. The group will be joined during those […]
Roy Pauley’s June column in the Singing News has all the makings of an interesting read: “Gospel Music’s Biggest Blunders.” And indeed it’s arguably true that, as Pauley has it, prematurely parking the Gospel Singing Caravan and consistently inducting gospel greats into the hall of fame posthumously have lastingly diminished the long-term viability of gospel […]
Via amgs, I see the NQC 07 schedule is up. Discuss.
Update: I had a chance during lunch to look at the lineup briefly. Some instant reactions.
Hope’s Call gets a spot on one of the Thurs-Fri lineups … good for them (and I see the LeFevre Quartet’s little temper tantrum served them well; they’re […]
Alert reader MM scores a twofer: Triumphant Quartet decided to get saved … er, I mean, certified by the high priests of the American Gospel Music enterprises, which means they can now start telling people about all the places they might sing … including maybe China?
By achieving the status of Certified American Gospel […]
The American Gospel Music rebranding of southern gospel seems to be going …. very quietly. The big news about AGM seems to be the lack of news, big or small. According to Clarke Beasley, whom I asked to give me an update on AGM, “all our efforts right now are focused on the AGM Festival […]
Via Daniel Mount, David Staton of the LeFevre Quartet tries to take a page from the Sherri Easter playbook and drum up some populist outrage over an NQC mainstage decision, in this case the board’s choice not to put TLQ on the mainstage in 2007. I don’t really have an opinion one way or another […]
