MLK Day - Sing Praise to the Lord - Portland, Maine

The Green Memorial AME Zion church music ministry - I think they mean "choir" - brought the roof of the Merrill Auditorium down as the closing act of this year's Martin Luther King music Celebration. Sponsored by the Greater Portland NAACP the performances run from a walking Burundi drumming group through Congolese Karaoke, Women in Harmony and kids. At 2:00 you hear why I love these guys so much as they just power through sustained chords - pure support and drive, which not every group there did. And at 4:00 the crowd stands to clap and we get the inevitable "clap gospel on 1 & 3, New Englanders" as opposed to "2 & 4 like everyone else" - that drives me NUTS - still, a fun evening.

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Music

Tags:

• Martin Luther King Jr.
• MLK day
• Green Memorial AME Zion church
• choir
• gospel
• Portland
• Maine
• Gospel Music