LaMOILLE – The Blackwood Brothers Gospel Quartet will present a free concert at Community United Methodist Church in LaMoille on Sunday, Jan. 23 at 4 p.m. The church is located at 73 N. Main St. An offering will be taken.
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LaMOILLE – The Blackwood Brothers Gospel Quartet will present a free concert at Community United Methodist Church in LaMoille on Sunday, Jan. 23 at 4 p.m. The church is located at 73 N. Main St. An offering will be taken.
The Blackwood Brothers Quartet was formed in 1934 with brothers Roy, Doyle, James and Roy's son, R.W. In the late 1950s, Roy and Doyle retired from traveling and in 1954 R.W. was killed in a tragic airplane crash. However, the quartet, with James as the quartet's leader and spokesman, established a new group of singers who would go on to take Gospel music to new heights as they traveled and sang in all 50 of the United States, every Canadian province as well as cities in Great Britain, Europe, the Middle East, Northern Africa, South Africa, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, Hong Kong and the Philippines.
In 2002, James Blackwood went to be with the Lord, but his sons, Jimmy (James Jr.) and Billy have continued the 80-year tradition. Recently, Jimmy retired after singing for 49 years and his younger brother, Billy now carries on the quartet, which has the distinction of being the best-known name in Gospel music history.
