With the National Quartet Convention of 2013 just ahead … the Jubilee for the weekend of August 24th leads off with a very rare recording from 50 years ago … which may well be the first-ever recording released of performances on the stage of the National Gospel Quartet Convention. The location was Memphis, the year was 1963 and during this 40-minute recording you’ll hear the Blackwood Brothers, the Stamps, the Statesmen, the Kingsmen, the Speers and the Oak Ridge Quartet.

Then … it’s the Singing Americans and their great concert that took place on September 1, 1974 in the Landis Baptist Church in Landis, North Carolina. This is their Wanted Live performance.

Leading off on this weekend of September 29th … as promised … you’re taken back to the Paramount Auditorium in Ashland, Kentucky . . . the year is 1984 and on stage are the Singing Americans.. . . as the Jubilee presents the second half of their much-acclaimed Live and Alive recording featuring Michael English.

Then, it’s back to Pigeon Forge for another much-more-recent performance, this one featuring the Triumphant Quartet. It was recorded in the Grand Resort Convention Center in this east Tennessee community. Included on the song list are ones that have become eternal favorites such as Old White Flag and The Great I Am Still Is.

The first part of the evening on the weekend of September 22^nd is devoted to another “Live in Pigeon Forge” performance … this one by the much-loved and extremely talented Brown family out of LeMars, Iowa. This concert recorded about four years ago … and this Mama and her multi-talented children just keep getting better and better. So, if they come to your area, don’t miss them!

Then, you’ll experience a rewind … going back some 25 years and zipping over to the Paramount Auditorium in Ashland, Kentucky … where a very special group is singing. Listen as Jerry Goff introduces them . . . the Singing Americans … the year was 1984 and this is the first portion of their recording, Live and Alive. You’ll need to return next week when the Jubilee brings you the remaining segment of this classic, historic performance.