Published on
February 24, 2015
Video length
49 mins

This vesper service features the inspiring prayers, songs, and readings from the African American worship tradition past and present.

A Vesper Service from the 2015 Symposium on 91 led by Emmett Price, III, and James Abbington and several alumni from the James Abbington Church Music Academy.

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