Jubilee Singers Perform A Free Concert In Boulder This Weekend

The Grammy award-winning Fisk Jubilee Singers will perform at CU Boulder’s Macky Auditorium on Sunday. The group is famous for preserving the Negro spiritual and is celebrating its 150th anniversary.

The acappella choir formed just after the Civil War at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. As a Historically Black College or University, and the only university at the time to offer a liberal arts education to “young men and women irrespective of color,” emancipated slaves flocked to Fisk.

KGNU’s Michele Simpson talked with the Fisk Jubilee Singers current director, Dr. Paul Kwami who says the Fisk University treasurer, George White, created The Fisk Jubilee Singers with the idea that the group could travel around and raise some extra money for the school.

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Alexis Kenyon is an experienced radio reporter with more than 15 years of experience creating compelling, sound-rich radio stories for news outlets across the country. Kenyon has master's degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism in radio broadcast and photojournalism. She has worked in KGNU's news department since 2021 as a reporter, editor, and daily news producer. In all her work, she strives to produce thought-provoking, trustworthy journalism that makes other people's stories feel personal. In addition to audio production, Kenyon runs KGNU's news internship program and oversees the department's digital engagement.