SEP 4-7 | 2025-26 Season Opening Week
Sep 06 - Sep 07, 2025
Miner Auditorium
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Original show description below.
More than a gospel institution, the Blind Boys of Alabama are a cultural force that has swept up musicians from every stylistic precinct, including Prince, Willie Nelson, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, and Ben Harper. With six GRAMMY Awards (including one for lifetime achievement) and a sumptuous repertoire of soaring anthems, the group is a gospel standard bearer that has crossed over without adopting secular songs.
Formed by a group of elementary students at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in the late 1930s who sang for pocket change, the quintet made a series of fine recordings in the post-war years that assured their place in the gospel pantheon, and they were an indispensable part of the soundtrack to the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s.
After more than 20 recordings and innumerable performances around the globe, the group released their newest album, the GRAMMY-winning Echoes of the South, in 2023. Drawing its name from the Birmingham radio program that hosted the group’s very first professional performance back in 1944, the album features a stirring updated version of Stevie Wonder’s “Heaven Help Us All.”
Keyboardist Cory Henry, known for his work with Snarky Puppy and his Funk Apostles, opens the show.
A gospel institution and cultural force, Blind Boys of Alabama return with music from their 2023 GRAMMY-winning album, Echoes of the South. Keyboardist Cory Henry, known for Snarky Puppy and his Funk Apostles, opens the show.
Seeing the Blind Boys of Alabama in concert is part living history, part concert, all uplifting experience...
The Washington Post
Seeing the Blind Boys of Alabama in concert is part living history, part concert, all uplifting experience...
The Washington Post
Personnel
Personnel TBA
There’s righteousness behind the jovial voices and seasoned harmonies of the Blind Boys of Alabama, the venerable gospel group
the new york times
Personnel
Personnel TBA
There’s righteousness behind the jovial voices and seasoned harmonies of the Blind Boys of Alabama, the venerable gospel group
the new york times
Watch & Listen
Blind Boys of Alabama
Send It On Down
Blind Boys of Alabama
Work Until My Days Are Done
Blind Boys of Alabama
Send It On Down
Blind Boys of Alabama
Work Until My Days Are Done
Opening Week | Sep 4-7
SEP 4-5
Operation Funk
Cory Henry & the Funk Apostles