GOSPEL ARCHIVING IN LOS ANGELES

June 2004 – May 2005

Heritage Music Foundation & the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive Forge Partnership

"Why archive? It's a pledge to the future. Without archiving, it's easy to forget our past."

For nearly a century, Los Angeles has played a major role in the development of Gospel music. To preserve this history and raise awareness about Los Angeles' role as a center for Gospel, the Heritage Music Foundation and the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive are embarking on a collaborative project to document LA Gospel music. Entitled Gospel Archiving in Los Angeles, or GALA, this yearlong project will focus on documenting LA Gospel events and on preserving and providing access to Gospel recordings held by the Heritage Music Foundation (HMF) and others in the community. GALA is funded by a UCLA in LA grant from UCLA’s Center for Community Partnerships.

About the GALA Partners

· Dr. Margaret Pleasant Douroux founded the Heritage Music Foundation in 1980. The Foundation is an LA-based non-profit dedicated to documenting, researching, and preserving LA’s Gospel tradition.

· The UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive was founded in 1961 and is among the largest ethnographic sound recording archives in America. Its collections include musical recordings from around the globe.

A selection of past and upcoming events recorded as part of GALA:

· July 30, 2004 – HMF Praise and Worship Workshop, Greater New Bethel Baptist Church.

·  August 2, 2004 – Consecration Service, L.A. Chapter, Gospel Music Workshop of America, Mount Moriah Baptist Church.

·  August 16, 2004 – HMF Night of Classical Gospel. Philip Bingham Music Ministry of Concord Baptist Church, Brooklyn, New York. Greater New Bethel Baptist.

·  September 25, 2004 – Tim Peterson Singers’ Fall Gospel Festival, First Lutheran Church.

·  October 20-23, 2004 – HMF 19th Annual National Gospel Music Conference and Exposition, LAX Radisson Hotel and Greater New Bethel Baptist Church.

·  December 1-3, 2004 – HMF Christmas Sacred Music Workshop.

·  February 24-25, 2005 – HMF Executive Board Meeting, Washington D.C.

·  March 2-4, 2005 – HMF Easter Music Workshop.

·  March 7, 2005 – HMF Legacy of Gospel Music Festival - Oratorical Contest.

·  March 14, 2005 – HMF Legacy of Gospel Music Festival. GALA Culminating Celebration.

·  March 21, 2005 – HMF Legacy of Gospel - Dr. Douroux's Birthday.

·  March 28, 2005 – HMF Legacy of Gospel Music Festival.

·  April 30, 2005 – HMF Mother's Day Luncheon.

·  June 2005 – HMF Father's Day Luncheon.

Interested in helping us document gospel? Know of an event that should be documented? Want to donate gospel materials -- recordings (LPs, 78s, 45s, audio tape cassettes, video tape cassettes, CDs), photographs, concert programs, etc.? Please contact us!

UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive

1630 Schoenberg Music Building, LA, CA 90095-1657 Voice: (310) 825-1695

Email: archive@arts.ucla.edu Website: http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/Archive/