The Blind Boys of Alabama

The exuberant power of gospel music lights up The Grand 1894 Opera House with an always-inspiring performance by The Blind Boys of Alabama.

For 75 years, this beloved vocal quintet has moved audiences worldwide with its heartfelt, joyful singing. Honored by the Grammys, the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, and the National Endowment for the Arts, their concerts and recordings are “part living history, part concert, all uplifting experience…” (The Washington Post)

The Blind Boys of Alabama are the only long-time gospel group to stay active and make an impact on post-millennial music. Formed in the late 1930s at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in Talladega, the group has harmonized throughout the turbulent twentieth-century and well into the twenty-first century, setting the standard for gospel greatness.

They have enjoyed some of their biggest and most rousing successes in the last ten years, during which they’ve won five Grammys, four Gospel Music Awards, and multiple invitations to sing at the White House. In more recent times, the group has lent its soul-stirring harmonies to a range of cross-genre collaborations including the recordings of Peter Gabriel, Ben Harper, and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon.