Gospel music echoes at Jazz Fest 2023

Photos by Mary Carty
Special to the Clarion Herald

Can we get an ‘Amen!’
Richard Cheri, director of the Archdiocese of New Orleans Gospel Choir, leads his vocal ensemble in a spiritual in the Gospel Tent at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on April 29. During the seven-day fest, Gospel lovers from around the world were treated to instrumental and vocal music from the St. Peter Claver Singers, Shades of Praise New Orleans Interracial Gospel Choir, St. Joseph the Worker Music Ministry, and Connie and Dwight Fitch with the St. Raymond and St. Leo the Great Choir.



THE ZION HARMONIZERS


Irma Thomas, the “Soul Queen of New Orleans,” mesmerized her throngs of admirers at the Gospel Tent.


Shades of Praise, the New Orleans Interracial Choir, was directed by Dwight Fitch  Sr., music director at St. Raymond and St. Leo the Great Church.

A Gospel patron raised his arm in praise to God.


 

The St. Joseph the Worker Music Ministry, Marrero (left) made good use of the tambourine.    


























The New Orleans Gospel Soul Children, which consists of 60 young voices of all ages, featured Cordia Caston (left).























The Voices of Peter Claver (below), directed by Veronica Downs Dorsey (left), offered a solo to Nathaniel Brooks (right).