Kennedy Center Homecoming: A Celebration Of Our Faith And Heritage (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Christian/Gospel  »  Southern Gospel
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: March 23, 1999
• Label: Spring House Music Group (Chordant)
• UPC: 617884221324
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106168107
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #72302 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #17284 in Christian/Gospel (See Top 100 Christian/Gospel Bestsellers)
• #87 in Southern Gospel (See Top 100 Southern Gospel Bestsellers)

Personnel includes: Bill Gaither, Gloria Gaither, Joy Gardner, Wesley Pritchard, Bonnie Keen, Ann Downing, Rex Nelon, Karen Peck, Lary Ford, Ivan Parker, The Martins, Larnelle Harris, Sheri Easter, Ladye Love Smith, Sue Dodge, Ben Speer, Bob Cain, Vestal Goodman, Ernie Haase, Babbie Mason, Janet Paschal, Joel Hemphill. Guy Penrod, Squire Parsons, David Phelps, The Katinas, Jessy Dixon, Andrae Crouch, Tanya Goodman Sykes, Lillie KNauls, Sandi Patty, Romance Watson, The Homecoming Friends, The Gaither Vocal Band.

Recorded live at The John F. Kennedy center For The Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.

KENNEDY CENTER HOMECOMING: A CELEBRATION OF OUR FAITH AND HERITAGE won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Southern, Country, Or Bluegrass Gospel Album.

This recording of inspirational music, part of the Gaithers' own Gaither Gospel Series, bears a subtitle that dubs the concert "A celebration of our faith and heritage." The musical program stays true to that claim with a stirring--and somehow not-incongruous--mixture of some of the best-known Christian hymns and patriotic songs. On the sacred side of things, such time-tested pulpit rockers as "Sombody Loves Me," "Every Time I Feel The Spirit," and "The Sweetest Words He Ever Said" allow the ensemble to bear witness with foot-stomping fervor.

Religion is only half the equation here. Songs of national love and honor, such as "America, The Beautiful," "God Bless America," and "Battle Hymn of the Republic," are performed with equal passion. The Gaithers' group is an enormous operation that features a shifting roster of soloists, smaller performance groups (The Martins, The Katinas, and the Gaither Vocal Band), and a large-scale gospel-style chorus that swings and warbles through HOMECOMING's 22-track affirmation of God and country.

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