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Article: Music With a Mission ; Southern Gospel Singers Preach Hope, Love in 4-Part Harmony
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- The Washington Post
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- June 11, 1987
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It's Saturday night and all the people at the Holy Land Spiritual
Temple are decked out in their Sunday best.
Fans are flapping, hands are clapping and the music is humming,
producing a sound big enough to draw a crowd off Florida Avenue.
Gospel music is on the bill at the Northeast church, courtesy of
the Prodigal Sons, the Gospel Pearls and the Southern Gospel Singers.
And the occasion is a fund-raiser for the seventh annual Southern
Gospel Singers Festival scheduled for Saturday in Anacostia Park.
Preaching the gospel in four-part harmony turns few performers
into millionaires, but the Southern Gospel Singers have a mission so
important that they'll pay for it out of their own ...