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In celebration of Black History Month, Bass-Baritone Michal Dawson Connor will be performing his own arrangements of Spirituals, at the Hoogland Center for the Arts (420 South Sixth Street, Springfield, IL 62701) on Friday, February 28 at 7 p.m.  These Sorrow Songs, or Slave Songs, are a living testament to the grit and determination of the African people – laboring under the yoke of bondage in America. In these musical footprints that they passed-down to us, the Slaves sang into existence a new heaven and earth... with their ecstatic, rapturous and mournful prayers for freedom. Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen, Steal Away To Jesus, Deep River, and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, are just a few of the timeless melodies being performed by Mr. Connor.

Others Slave Songs to be performed include: Go Down, Moses, Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child, Steal Away to Jesus, Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray, This Little Light of Mine, Hold On!, and There is a Balm in Gilead