Soweto is an acronym for Southwestern Townships, a vast containment community originally created to keep the indigenous people of South Africa segregated from the country's white colonizers. Since the ...

The Joe and Vi Jacobs Center is a fitting venue for the Soweto Gospel Choir to perform its mix of African gospel, spirituals, reggae and American pop music. The diverse area surrounding the center, ...

In a return to your Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, be swept away once more by the electrifying energy and soul-stirring harmonies of the Soweto Gospel Choir, an internationally renowned 20-member ...

Few ensembles embody the intertwining of artistry and political memory as fully as the Soweto Gospel Choir. Emerging in a country still reckoning with the psychological scars of apartheid, the group ...

Prayer combined with protest, holiness mixed with justified hostility — these are the hallmarks of the Soweto Gospel Choir’s repertoire. It’s a mixture of feelings the group has imbibed from birth in ...

Dressed in vibrant costumes, the Soweto Gospel Choir blends the rich sounds of traditional African music with dance and a variety of musical genres — rock and hip-hop, and American gospel and R&B — ...

One hundred years ago, a man was born who would change the world. Now, singers from his native country are touring the world, celebrating his contributions with joyful performances of African Gospel ...

The Soweto Gospel Choir’s name gives you an indication of what a performance from the mass choir, made up of some of the most talented voices from churches in and around Soweto, South Africa, will ...

UPDATE: This concert has been postponed to 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10, 2022. All tickets sold for Sept. 29 will be honored Oct. 10. Details: hancher.uiowa.edu/2022-23/Soweto ...

South Africa's Soweto Gospel Choir combines traditional African gospel and Western Christian music to form a rich, unique sound. In a visit to NPR, members of the group perform songs from their new CD ...

Music has been many things for Mary Mulovhedzi and the Soweto Gospel Choir. It has been her storyteller, her livelihood, her therapist and doctor, and her minister. On their current three-month world ...