Accompanying Jones at NPR was bassist Glenn Myers, guitarist Drake Ritter, drummer Ben Lumsdaine, keyboardist Matthew Romy and vocalist Shaq Hester. Jones also recruited three members of the Harlem Gospel Travelers — Ifedayo Gatling, George Marage and Dennis Keith Bailey III — to provide additional backing vocals.

NOVEMBER 15, 2025

With a shared versatile range of music and theater credits, Trèjah Bostic and Shaq Hester, will revive classics like “You’ve Got a Friend,” “Where is the Love?” “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and “For All We Know" as an offering to these great legends and as a way to say “I LOVE YOU” to one another!

NOMINATED FOR BROADWAYWORLD NEW JERSEY AWARD FO “BEST CABARET”

JUNE 24, 2024

The Gospel is alive and well at The Alliance Theater with their current offering, THE PREACHER’S WIFE. This new musical shows promise of one day gracing the Broadway Stage. Once again as with THE COLOR PURPLE, THE PROM, and WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, if you get your ticket during this run, which ends June 16th, you can say you saw it here first.

MAY 14 - JUNE 19, 2024

The features also shine: Washington’s Sofia crushes “Hell No” and her duet with Hester’s Harpo, “Any Little Thing;” Hester also makes a rousing impression as he leads the men of the cast and Squeak (a charming Laura Overby) on the paean to night-life and women, “Brown Betty.”