A tribute to Pittsburgh’s rich gospel-music history, in this video the Alton Merrell Trio and the Heritage Gospel Chorale, under the direction of Herbert VRP Jones, presents the music of composer, arranger, and publisher Charles Henry Pace. With his wife Frankie, Charles ran one of the nation’s earliest and most successful independent black music publishing businesses out of Pittsburgh’s Hill District neighborhood from the mid-1930s to the 1960s. Event organized in partnership with the Center for American Music in the University of Pittsburgh Library System, the Heritage Gospel Chorale and the Alton Merrell Trio. Event was held at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on 25 March 2023.
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