Trav’ling Home – American Spirituals 1770-1870

According to director Joel Cohen, American spirituals are “the untutored but vigorous religious music of Colonial America, and the rugged, folk-derived spiritual song of the countryside.” It will be well worth your while to hear for yourself these musically rich, involving, and often exciting tunes from Southern shape-note songbooks, out-of-print hymnals, and other early manuscript sources. Don’t miss this one. –David Vernier