Photos of the Choir recording their forthcoming album release at the RBF Studios from last month.

The Choir’s fourth studio album will be released in South Africa next month and will have a later North American release.

I’ve heard that it’s going to be an amazing album!

During a rehearsal in Johannesburg, musical director Beverly Bryer and conductor Shimmy Jiyane tell the BBC the secret of their success.

View the audio slideshow at the BBC’s website.

Photos by Jason Boswell below.

Taken from Dave Scrimshaw’s 2008 Soweto Gospel Choir photo set.

Photos behind the jump.

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Photos from the Philadelphia concert on December 10, 2008.

By Megan Rolland
Gainesville Sun
November 28, 2008

As the Soweto Gospel Choir hit the end note of the American national anthem, their impromptu Thanksgiving Day stage — a back porch in Gainesville — collapsed to raucous applause.

The South African choir, which has won two Grammy Awards among other accolades, is in Gainesville for two performances, but they spent Thursday eating a traditional Thanksgiving feast at the home of Michael Blachly, director of University of Florida Performing Arts.

“I think this is a lovely tradition,” said 28-year-old Honey Ncube, as he enjoyed his first Thanksgiving feast. “To me, it’s a wonderful thing, anything that brings together family.”

Ncube has been on tour in the U.S. for more than two months and said he misses his family in the urban city of Soweto, where he was born and raised. Read the rest of this entry »

The world-famous Soweto Gospel Choir led a Carnegie Hall Community Sing at Harlem Stage Gatehouse on November 18, 2008.