Gospel in NY?

Can anyone recommend a gospel show in NY?

Gospel in NY?

There%26#39;s a few ways to hear gospel music.

- At a ';Gospel Brunch';, such as BB Kings or Sylvia%26#39;s restaurants.

- a gospel show featuring a choir at a venue/theatre like Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, etc.

- a tour of Harlem

- going to a church on Sunday.

This is a good post describing gospel brunches, and good gospel choirs in churches.

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Here are websites for gospel tours:

http://www.harlemheritage.com/gospel.shtml

http://www.harlemspirituals.com/index.html

Gospel in NY?

And every Sunday at the Iridium Jazz Club...

EVERY SUNDAY: BISHOP NATHANIEL TOWNSLEY, JR.

AND THE GOSPEL JUBILEE Starting at 11:30 AM through 3:00 PM

www.iridiumjazzclub.com/sundaybrunch.shtml

any advice on which of these is better? I know BB Kings is supposed to be good but the food just average - any with good gospel and good food?

Reviews on tthis forum vary, but I haven%26#39;t seen a total pan of any one of them.

Here%26#39;s a previous post:

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Here%26#39;s a description of BB King%26#39;s from FMK1712 from last year:

';Posted on: 5:51 am, Dec 23, 2004 Report inappropriate post

';Susanne - we did enjoy the brunch. We booked our tickets in advance through Ticketmaster. The starting time was given as %26#39;seating from 12-30, showtime 1-30 pm%26#39;. We got there just after 12-30 and there was a big queue - the doors were not yet open. We did not wait too long before we were inside though.

The bit that was disorganised was the food.... Everyone was given a ticket, either red or yellow. You could only get up for your food when your colour was called. The compere said %26#39;don%26#39;t worry, the queue moves really fast%26#39;. We were %26#39;red%26#39; and the last called (didn%26#39;t mind that, someone has to be). We joined the queue and waited....and waited....and waited. The queue did not even move for about 10 minutes. People were coming back from the buffet tables and couldn%26#39;t get to their seats because the queue was in the way! We must have waited at least 30 minutes before we got to the buffet tables. The choir came on stage before we%26#39;d even got to the food. Then, when we got our food, there were no forks in the cutlery tray and we must have waited another five minutes for some to appear, even though loads of people were asking for them.

The food was OK, typical mass buffet fare.

Another thing was that water and orange juice were provided on the table, with hot drinks available at a separate table. If you wanted anything else to drink, you had to wait until a server came to your table to get them. The show was at least half way through before our server reached us.

We noticed that there were some tables with %26#39;reserved%26#39; plaques on them. Most of the seating was at long tables, but there were some semi-circular booths that were really nice and these all seemed to be reserved. We hadn%26#39;t realised you could reserve particular seats in advance. These tables also seemed to get served with other drinks first, so if you want to go it might be worth thinking about %26#39;phoning to reserve a booth.

The actual show was finished by about 2-40 pm, so it was a bit shorter than we%26#39;d thought it would be, but that was fine, it meant we weren%26#39;t rushing back to the hotel for our transport back to Newark. Our flight home was at 8-35 pm and Super Shuttle had said they%26#39;d pick us up at 4-35 pm (but of course they didn%26#39;t).

When we got a taxi at 5-40 pm, it took us an hour to get to Newark.

You would probably have time to go to the brunch, if you left straight afterwards and had a decent transport firm to take you to the airport (NOT SUPER SHUTTLE!)

The above report may sound like we didn%26#39;t enjoy it much, but that%26#39;s not true.... I%26#39;m glad we did it, though I wouldn%26#39;t go out of my way to do it again.

Hope that answers your questions!';

Thanks a lot for your recommendations.