Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments
• Jan 31, 2021
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“I’ll Wait for Jesus,” by the Kingdom Bound Singers of Chicago, 45
Syd Nathan’s King Record label was so successful that he created the Federal subsidiary in 1950. which itself very quickly became known for jumpin’ blues from top artists like Ike Turner, James Brown’s Famous Flames, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters and Freddie King. Federal also released a few gospel LPs and 45s, including the Kingdom Bound Singers of Chicago, featuring big-voiced lead singer Bossie Morson Jr.
. Marin native Hopper Penn (son of Robin Wright and Sean Penn) stars alongside Paz de la Huerta in Puppy Love, which closes out SF Indiefest this February. In its 23rd year, SF Indiefest is stronger than ever
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Jan 26, 2021
The 2021 San Francisco Independent Film Festival, aka Indiefest, features a smattering of Bay Area cinematic talent among its 80 independent films. Here are a few to watch.
Oakland filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes will be awarded this year s Vanguard Award for his hybrid documentary/fiction piece,
499, that follows a 16th Century conquistador on a modern-times journey through Mexico where he travels from the countryside to bustling cities seeking out relatives of murdered activists and detailing the effects of colonialism and dehumanization on societies. The dream-like cinematography earned Reyes the Best Cinematography Award at Tribeca Film Festival last year. SF IndieFest prides itself on recognizing unconventional, risk-taking filmmakers
Robert Darden Commentary - Dec. 19, 2020 9:45am
I have spent my professional career researching and writing about the spirituals, gospel songs and freedom songs of the African American experience. They also provide much of the soundtrack of my life.
But two weeks ago, when I found myself in a crowded Waco hospital undergoing knee replacement surgery, it wasn’t a classic spiritual that sustained me. It was Mary Gauthier’s “Mercy Now.” “Mercy Now” was hailed as an instant classic upon its release in 2005, a simple, haunting plea that sounds older than the oldest spirituals, like it was somehow summoned from divine ether rather than composed in the vulgar present.