JOURNEY: A Soulful Music Celebration Returns to Aaron Davis Hall

A moving voyage through the sounds of the Black American experience returns to Aaron Davis Hall as City College Center for the Arts (CCCA) and Marvin Lowe present JOURNEY: A Soulful Music Celebration . The concert, featuring acclaimed bass-baritone soloist Marvin Lowe and friends — including jazz trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, soprano Brandie Sutton and vocalist Marcelle Davies-Lashley — will take audiences on a journey through the music created by Africans and African-Americans in response to their trials and triumphs over the centuries. The soulful trek also seeks to inspire contemporary listeners to use their own voices to create change and help unite all people in these trying times.

A musical tour de force featuring genres spanning from Negro spirituals and religious hymns to the modern sounds of gospel, blues and jazz, JOURNEY: A Soulful Music Celebration was an immense hit with audiences when it was performed at Aaron Davis Hall in 2018 and 2019. Now back by popular demand, the show takes music lovers even further back in time with performances showcasing the African drum and dance, centering the rhythmic beat that gave much of Black American music its lifeblood. Under the musical direction of Vinroy D. Brown, Jr., Lowe along with an array of talented performers, including vocalist C. Anthony Bryant, Davies-Lashley and Sutton, will offer new takes on songs such as “Lord, How Come Me Here,” “Hold on Just a Little While Longer” and Ragtime’s “Make Them Hear You.” Obediah Wright will serve as choreographer for the concert.

Offering audiences historical background and context for songs during the concert will be the show’s narrator, the Rev. Dr. S. Raschaad Hoggard.