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The Ingramettes on the ‘Soul of RVA’
The Legendary Ingramettes on Shockoe Sessions Live Tuesday, September 22 at 7:30pm on the In Your Ear Studios YouTube Channel (also on Facebook at In Your Ear Studios.) Gospel in the living room on a serious scale is going to happen on Tuesday NIght! They will be joined by our host Reese Williams plus a tiny audience in The Gallery.
Gospel music has always been a source of refuge and hope, and no one knows that better than Almeta Ingram-Miller: Her mother, Maggie Ingram, was known as the Gospel Queen of Richmond, Va. In 1961, she founded one of America’s most celebrated gospel groups, Maggie Ingram and the Ingramettes, which performed together for more than five decades. The Ingramettes stopped recording after Maggie Ingram’s death in 2015.
An encounter with The Legendary Ingramettes is as intimidating as it is uplifting. Looking all that raw gospel power right in the face makes the righteous cower and the sinners run for cover. But they all come back, drawn by the power and the glory this Richmond, Virginia-based female gospel trio bring to their performances.
Last year, the Legendary Ingramettes played in Serbia and Bulgaria. Neither country might mark the sort of spot a young musician dreams of playing, but the Ingramettes have their own story to tell, and winding up in Serbia turned out to be not just the pinnacle of a long career, but the spiritual completion of a decades-long hope.