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NEWS

• A Celebration of The Ryman & The Fisk Jubilee Singers (QRO Magazine)

• Fisk Jubilee Singers, Allison Russell, O.N.E The Duo seamlessly blend sacred, secular music at the Ryman (The Tennessean)

• Celebrating 150 Years of Fisk Jubilee Singers (NewsChannel5 Nashville)

• Fisk Jubilee Singers Celebrate the Release of 'Heritage & Honor: 150 Year Story of The Fisk Jubilee Singers' (Broadway World)

• Photos: Fisk Jubilee Singers with Allison Russell & O.N.E The Duo at the Ryman (The Tennessean)

• Industry Ink: Brooke Eden, BMI, Fisk Jubilee Singers, The Other Nashville (MusicRow Magazine)

• Newly available Fisk Jubilee Singers book details 150 years of group's rich history (NewsChannel5 Nashville)

• PHOTO RECAP: Ryman Auditorium and Fisk Jubilee Singers® “Jubilation! An Enduring Musical Union” Featuring Allison Russell, O.N.E The Duo

• God's a soprano? Fisk Jubilee Singers' director tells stories from all over campus (Tennessean)

• Fisk Jubilee Singers, Ryman Auditorium to Celebrate Mutual 130th Anniversaries with June 28th Concert ft. Allison Russell, O.N.E The Duo

• Allison Russell, Brandi Carlile, Yola, Jason Isbell, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Los Lobos, The Mavericks, Big Thief, Billy Strings and More Announced as the Americana Music Association’s 2022 Americana Honors & Awards Nominees During a Ceremony at the National Museum of African American Music; The War and Treaty, Adia Victoria and Fisk Jubilee Singers Wrap Event In Stirring Performances

• The Eagles Enlisted Fisk Jubilee Singers for Rousing Marathon Rock Concert in Nashville (Tennessean)

• Fisk's Jubilee Singers celebrate 150 years of American tradition; The Grammy-winning college singing group is embedded in the HBCU's history (NBC News)

• A crackly recording from 1912 illustrates the importance of the Fisk Jubilee Quartet (WPLN Nashville)

• They Didn’t Want to Sing Spirituals, but They Did — and Changed American Music (New York Times)

• Fisk Is In Jubilee As It Honors The Legacy Of Its Pioneering Ensemble (WPLN Nashville)

• The Jubilee Singers, HBCU Fisk University's a cappella ensemble, celebrate 150 years (NPR)

• The Fisk Jubilee Singers’® Album, Celebrating Fisk! (The 150th Anniversary Album), Wins GRAMMY® Award in Best Roots Gospel Album Category

• Not ‘Lost Sounds’: The Early Recordings Of The Fisk Jubilee Singers (WPLN Nashville)

ABOUT

Fisk Jubilee Singers® are vocal artists and students at Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., who sing and travel worldwide. The group was founded in 1871, making it the first established a cappella choral ensemble at a Historically Black University and College in the United States. The original ensemble introduced the Negro spiritual to the world in 1871 as they traveled and raised money to sustain Fisk University. The ensemble was also instrumental in preserving this unique American musical, which is the root of other American forms of music. During their early years of travel and performance, they sang for crowned heads around the world.

The Fisk Jubilee Singers continue the tradition of singing the Negro spiritual around the world, and recently performed in renowned venues such as The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Smithsonian Institute, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum, The White House, the Schermerhorn Symphony Hall, and Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. In 2007 the ensemble traveled and performed in Ghana at the invitation of the Department of State in celebration of Ghana’s 50th Independence anniversary. The GRAMMY® and Dove Award-winning Fisk Jubilee Singers have received numerous awards including the induction into the Music City Walk of Fame, the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, the American Classical Music Hall of Fame, and the GRAMMY Hall of Fame. In 2008, the Fisk Jubilee Singers were awarded the 2008 National Medal of Arts by former President George W. Bush at the White House.

The ensemble has collaborated with guest artists such as Neil Young, CeCe Winans, Keb’ Mo’, Shania Twain, India.Arie, The Fairfield Four and Rodney Atkins, Ledisi, and now has membership in the Academy of Country Music.