REJOICE AND SHOUT - TRAILER
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Channel: Historic Films Stock Footage Archive · 2013 · Music
For licensing inquiries please contact Historic Films Archive (www.historicfilms.com / [email protected]) REJOICE AND SHOUT: THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN GOSPEL MUSIC IN AMERICA is finally completed. Shot in HD and mixed in 5.1 sound, this important documentary will be released in theaters by MAGNOLIA PICTURES this coming spring. Produced and directed by the team of JOE LAURO & DON McGLYNN, the film has been three years in the making and will feature astounding and newly discovered archival performances by many of Gospel Music's legendary voices. Mahalia Jackson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Swan Silverstones, Dixie Hummingbirds, Andrae Crouch, and Edwin Hawkins Singers all appear in vintage full length performances provided by HISTORIC FILMS. Also featured in newly filmed productions & interviews are Smokey Robinson, Mavis Staples, Willa Ward (of Clara Ward Singers), Ira Tucker (of Dixie Hummingbirds), and Madame Marie Knight among others. HISTORIC FILMS' President Joe Lauro is delighted that the project has finally been completed and that MAGNOLIA PICTURES has slated it for worldwide theatrical release!
