Welcome to Copenhagen Gospel Festival!
The Festival has been an annual event on the Danish gospel music scene since 1992 when the first festival took place in Jerusalemskirken, the Methodist church in Copenhagen.
The Festival is actually more of a workshop - anywhere between 400 and 800 gospel singers get together during the first weekend in October every year to learn a number of songs taught by American and British gospel music composers, singers and musicians. The results are presented at a concert on Sunday evening.
Over the years, the Festival - which is also referred to as CGF - has been visited by internationally well known names such as Richard Smallwood, Edwin Hawkins, Patrick Henderson, Lamar Campbell and many others - as well as the Danish "first lady" of gospel music, Etta Cameron.
The widespread interest for gospel music here in Denmark has also inspired us to try new ways of spreading the good news. The most recent addition to the Festival is the Young Copenhagen Gospel Festival. For 5 years now, a workshop choir of young people aged between 9 and 19 years have gathered in the first weekend in March. This year, the young singers were taught by Nadine Lee from London and Lene Nørrelykke from Denmark, and at the concert on Sunday afternoon we also saw examples of modern dance as yet another way of expressing the music and meaning of gospel music!Photos: Jorge RiveraCGF 2006
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