New York City, the pulsating metropolis, is a magical magnet for many. “If I Can Make It here, I’m Gonna Make It Anywhere” sang Frank Sinatra about the city on the Hudson River. And even though not everyone dreams of emigrating to NYC, it is hard to find someone who doesn’t dream of being there at least once in their lifetime. For all those who have never been to the "Big Apple", the concert organizer RGV Event GmbH is now bringing a piece of New York to Germany, the gospel from Harlem.

Grammy Award winner Reverend Gregory M. Kelly, who has worked with music legends like Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross, is coming with his choir to Germany for over 40 dates in December 2023 and January 2024. The individual singers of the ensemble read like a Who's Who of the active US gospel scene. Among REV. GREGORY M. KELLY & the BEST OF HARLEM GOSPEL are high-caliber names like Reverend Dr. Charles R. Lyles, Timothy Riley, Steven McCaster, Dorrey Lin Lyles, Segdrick Marsh. In total, nine voices that transport the indescribable atmosphere of Harlem's gospel churches to churches and concert halls in Germany. 

Harlem – the neighborhood in New York's Manhattan – is still famous for the flourishing of African American culture in the 1920s, known as the "Harlem Renaissance," which drew legends like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington to this very neighborhood. And even today, Harlem proudly displays its African American roots, its vibrant culture, its steadfast faith, and musical rhythm.

REV. GREGORY M. KELLY & the BEST OF HARLEM GOSPEL brings pure joy of life, energy, and dynamism, as experienced in every service in the churches of New York's neighborhoods. A two-hour program that offers everything that makes gospel music so unique, captivating, and moving. The choir's repertoire includes both traditional and Christmas-related gospels – ranging from famous and widely loved gospel classics like “Oh happy day” and “Amen” to “Whole world in his hands” and “Go, tell it on the mountain”.

A gospel choir that is unlike any other gospel formation. Here, religion plays as important and fundamental a role as in the lives of the people of Harlem. Because nothing else is the religion lived in Harlem: music and singing in the name of the Lord. But regardless of whether young or old, Catholic or Protestant, non-denominational or still unbelieving, everyone is welcome at the concerts.