By Darryl Geddes Grammy Award-winning artist Richard Smallwood, singing with the choir Vision, will headline the 22nd Annual Festival of Black Gospel at Cornell Feb. 20 to 22. The festival is the centerpiece of the university's Black History Month celebration. Richard Smallwood and Vision will perform Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. in Bailey Hall. Also performing will be Malcolm Wilson, Joshua's Generation and the Anointed Voices. Group rates are also available.
Tickets also are available at the door the night of the performance.
The Richard Smallwood Singers, which lasted 87 weeks on the Billboard gospel album chart. His 1992 release Testimony won the Dove Award for Best Contemporary Gospel Album of the Year. His music is very moving and inspirational and it combines traditional gospel movement with a classical sound. That should be appealing to many individuals. Over the past two decades, the Festival of Black Gospel has attracted some of the biggest names in the industry, including Hezekiah Walker, Yolanda Adams and Witness.