Southern gospel music emerged at camp meetings and revivals across the South more than a century ago, changing the culture of church music, said the Rev. Vep Ellis Jr., pastor ...

In the late 1980s and through the 1990s, Southern Gospel Music Week acts formerly at The Commons sometimes attracted crowds of 600 to 800 each evening or afternoon of three or four acts.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Southern Gospel Music icon, West Virginia native, Squire Parsons died of a heart attack Monday. He was 77. Parsons grew up in the Roane County community of Newton. He went to ...