Testify!
While I’m mighty glad the holiday season is pretty much over, I felt honored to spend Christmas Eve at the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir concert at Slim’s here in San Francisco. The group, multiracial, multigenerational and nearly 60 years in existence, has done this pre-Christmas concert since the mid 1980’s.
Now I get a vicous hankering for gospel music every now and then, even though I was born under the Star of David. And the OIGC, with their perfect harmonies and wailin’ like God Almighty, did not let me down. By the end, even though I still don’t have much of a voice to give, I was yelling “Sing It!” until the words didn’t come out.