Spotlight Live

We are storytellers. We combine music and storytelling exploring the origins, history and culture of negro spirituals, work-songs, ragtime, gospel and blues. Stirring renditions from a songbook rich in pain, resistance, and hope. We take our audience on a cultural, spiritual, musical and educational journey through the horrific enslavement of Africans, the horrifying journey across the Atlantic, the brutal life on the plantations in America’s deep-south, and the unwavering desire to escape to freedom, and through these horrors, how it led to the birth of something beautiful, Gospel music.