Go here for tickets: https://wl.seetickets... class="linkified">https://wl.seetickets... From Wikipedia: The Blind Boys of Alabama, also billed as The Five Blind Boys of Alabama and Clarence Fountain and the Blind Boys of Alabama,[1] is an American gospel group. The group was founded in 1939 in Talladega, Alabama and has featured a changing roster of musicians over its history, the majority of whom are or were visually impaired.[1][2][3][4]<br />The Blind Boys found mainstream success following their appearance in the 1983 Obie Award-winning musical The Gospel at Colonus.[1][5][6] Since then, the group has toured internationally and has performed and recorded with such artists as Prince, Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel, Bonnie Raitt, Ben Harper, Bon Iver, and Amadou & Mariam.[1][2][5][7][8] The group s cover of the Tom Waits song "Way Down in the Hole" was used as the theme song for the first season of the HBO series The Wire.[2][7]<br />The Blind Boys have won five Grammy Awards in addition to being presented with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.[9] They were endowed with a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1994,[10] they were inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2003[11] and they were inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 2010.[12] The group was also invited to the White House during the Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama administrations.[5][13]<br />Group member Ricky McKinnie said in a 2011 interview with the magazine Mother Jones: "Our disability doesn t have to be a handicap. It s not about what you can t do. It s about what you do. And what we do is sing good gospel music."[5]</p>
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