This Week on Gospel Music Today – Brian Free and Assurance

The members of Brian Free and Assurance are the guests on Gospel Music Today for the week of May 19. Ken and Jean Grady host southern gospel news and concert updates. The Feature Group is Sojourner Quartet, and Jean reviews a new recording by Chosen Road. An article from Singing News magazine about the SGPA…

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Singing News Fan Awards 2024 Top 5 Announced!

The ballots have been counted and the Top 5 in the 2024 Singing News Fan Awards have been announced.
Please note that “Favorite Musician” has 10 nominations based on a printer error on the Top 10 ballot.

Favorite Artist:

Gold City

Greater Vision

Inspirations

Karen Peck & New River

Triumphant

Favorite New Artist:

Chitans

Jeff Tolbert & Primitive Road

Scotty Inman

Southbound

TrueSong

Paul Heil Award:

Bill Gaither

Enlighten

Rodney Baucom (Joy FM/Gospel Greats)

Singing News Radio

The Gospel Greats

Favorite Song:

Cherish That Name – Greater VIsion

Come To The Well – Inspirations

He Grew The Tree – Gaurdians

Here Comes Jesus – Jeff & Sheri Easter

The Basement – Joseph Habedank

Favoite Alto:

Connie Hopper – Hoppers

Courtney Collingsworth Metz – Collingsworth Family

Libbi Perry Stuffle – Perrys

Sheri Easter – Jeff & Sheri Easter

Susan Whisnant – Whisnants

Favorite Album:

Christmas In London – Greater Vision

Classic – Mark Trammell Quartet

Nobody Like Jesus – LeFevre Quartet

There’s A Song For That – Down East Boys

Unstoppable God – Kingsmen

Favorite Bass:

Eric Bennett – Triumphant

Jeff Chapman – Gold City

Pat Barker – Guardians

Ray Dean Reese – Kingsmen

Wyatt Austin – Inspirations

Favorite Songwriter:

John Darin Rowsey

Joseph Habedank

Rodney Griffin

Ronny Hinson

Scotty Inman

Favorite Baritone:

Clayton Inman – Triumphant

Jon Epley – Greater Vision

Josh Singletary – Tribute Quartet

Luke Vaught – Inspirations

Mark Trammell – Mark Trammell Quartet

Favorite Band:

Gaither Vocal Band

Isaacs

Jeff & Sheri Easter

Jeff Tolbert & Primitive Road

Kingdom Heirs

Favorite Lead:

Bill Shivers – Brian Free & Assurance

Jim Brady – Jim & Melissa Brady/Booth Brothers

Rodney Griffin – Greater Vision

Roland Kesterson – Inspirations

Sean Barber – Triumphant

Favorite Tenor:

Brian Free – Brian Free & Assurance

Chris Allman – Greater Vision

David Sutton – Triumphant

Ernie Haase – Ernie Haase & Signature Sound

Isaac Moore – Inspirations

Favorite Soprano:

Brooklyn Collingsworth Blair – Collingsworth Family

Karen Peck Gooch – Karen Peck & New River

Kim Hopper – Hoppers

Melissa Brady – Jim & Melissa Brady

Sonya Isaacs Yeary – Isaacs

Favorite Trio:

Booth Brothers

Brian Free & Assurance

Greater Vision

Jeff & Sheri Easter

The Sound

Favorite Young Artist:

Brady Jones – Kingsmen

Cayden Howell – Down East Boys

Jacob Mills – The Sound

Kennedy Hayes – Mylon Hayes Family

Trevor Conkle – Mark Trammell Quartet

Favorite Soloist:

David Phelps

Jonathan Wilburn

Joseph Habedank

Lauren Talley

Scotty Inman

Favorite Duet:

Austin & Ethan Whisnant

Jim & Melissa Brady

Josh & Ashley Franks

Reggie & Ladye Love Smith

Zane & Donna King

Favorite Mixed Group:

Chuck Wagon Gang

Collingsworth Family

Hoppers

Karen Peck & New River

Mylon Hayes Family

Favorite Quartet:

Gold City

Guardians

Inspirations

Mark Trammell Qt.

Triumphant

Favorite Musician:

Andy Stringfield

Gerald Wolfe

Gordon Mote

Josh Singletary

Joshua Stone

Kim Collingsworth

Luke Vaught

Matthew Gooch

Richard Hyssong

Trevor Conkle

Congratulations to The Guardians and the SGN SCOOPS TOP 100 SG (June)

#1 Heaven Is Happening Guardians/Daywind 2. There’s A Song For That Down East Boys/Crossroads 3. There Is A Name LeFevre Qt/Daywind 4. Be The Reason Steeles/StowTown 5. Help Is On The Way Gold City/New Haven Records 6. God Is Listening Triumphant Qt/StowTown 7. Carry The Glorious Gospel Mylon Hayes Family/UIA 8. We Are The Church…

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Congratulations to The Guardians and the SGN SCOOPS Top 100 for May 2024

  1. Heaven Is Happening Guardians/Daywind 2. Help Is On The Way Gold City/New Haven Records 3. Meet Me At The Cross Brian Free & Assurance/Daywind 4. There’s A Song For That Down East Boys/Crossroads 5. Stand In The Storm Booth Brothers/StowTown 6. Carry The Glorious Gospel Mylon Hayes Family/UIA 7. Grace Will Lead You…

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Congratulations to Todd Tilghman and the SGN SCOOPS Top 40 Christian Country MAY

1 Still To Come Todd Tilghman/Independent 2 Front Porch Sittin’ Zane & Donna King/StowTown 3 What God Can Do Endless Highway/Sonlite/Crossroads 4 My God Scotty Inman/Daywind/New Day 5 In God’s Time Jordan Family Band/ARS 6 Real Life Shellem Cline/Red Country 7 It Had To Be God Tim Livingston/Independent 8 Made A Mess Tim Menzies/ARS/New Day…

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The Down East Boys’ “He Looked Beyond My Fault” offers a profound message

Arden, North Carolina — Even as the title track of their last collection, “There’s A Song For That,” rises in the charts, the Down East Boys are keeping fans happy with a new single — this time, a beloved classic from Dottie Rambo, who wrote its simple, yet profound lyric more than 50 years ago….

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GOSPEL MUSIC LEGEND, BILL GAITHER TO BE FEATURED AT 2024 NATIONAL QUARTET CONVENTION

Pigeon Forge, TN – During the 2024 National Quartet Convention, Gospel Music legend Bill Gaither (pictured in attached jpg) will present a Bill Gaither & Friends Sing-Along at the LeConte Center in Pigeon Forge, TN, on Saturday, September 28. Over the course of the seven-day event, dozens of Southern Gospel Music’s most popular artists will…

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ZANE & DONNA KING FIND JOY IN THE JOURNEY WITH EVERYTHING GOOD

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Everything Good, the highly anticipated new recording from Dove and Singing News Fan Award-nominated husband/wife duo Zane & Donna King, bows May 31 from StowTown Records. Carrying overarching themes of joy and peace, the album is a testimony to God’s faithfulness in the couple’s lives following a difficult season of walking with two of…

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