THE NEW NEGRO SPIRITUAL PROJECT

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THE NEW NEGRO SPIRITUAL PROJECT is a collection of original songs and arrangements that celebrate the root and the fruit of the Traditional Negro Spiritual, transposing it from the contextual focus of “enslaved Africans in America” into a contemporarily relevant focus.  This transposition represents an evolution of the original Spirit and Message of the Traditional Negro Spiritual into a Message of Freedom that speaks to the present-day context, with a Universal Spiritual Relevance for All Humanity.  This new music fuses the Traditional Negro Spiritual medium with elements of jazz, Gospel, and Classical idioms, emerging as a uniquely blended expression of Hope, Promise, Divine Connection, and Resurrection. 

         We are raising funds for the recording, mixing, mastering, digital promotion, and live presentation and release of this music for:

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1)  Educating students of all ages about the history of the Negro Spiritual and the presence of its DNA within all of the music that exists today;

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2)  Creating a conversational forum for The Issues of Race and Freedom in America through the translation of

the Negro Spiritual message and substance into a wider frame of contemporary context that includes a Social, Political, Historic, Economic, and Faith-Based focus;

 3)  Creating a new context for pursuing and embodying Freedom within the United States of America context and beyond.​​