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The Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers Present a Concert in Elmira

By Bill Snyder | March 22, 2018

The Music Director of the Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers, Baruch Whitehead, joins us to talk about their concert on Sunday, March 25 in the Clemens Center in Elmira, which presents a variety of Negro Spirituals. He talks about the meaning behind these moving songs and their historical context.

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