Gospel

Place des Arts has welcomed its share of Gospel troupes over the years, on tour stops and in festival appearances. One of them, Britain’s The Kingdom Choir, shot to fame when it sang at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Like many other modern Gospel groups, they combine a wide-ranging, brilliant repertoire with top-calibre performances, equally at home singing Aretha Franklin classics or Beyoncé bangers. The Soweto Gospel Choir, another occasional visitor to PdA, blends Southern U.S. Gospel with the vocal traditions of their native South Africa, lending a stirring, special flavour to compositions like Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”, sung partly in Zulu in their shows.