SPIRITUAL FEST 2010 is held
- on 18 September 2010 in Community Centre of St Procopius, Slunecni sq. 1, Prague 13 - Nove Butovice
- on 19 September 2010 in Community House, K Vidouli 727, Prague 13
There would be music groups, choirs, bands, singers and musicians from seven countries performing afroamerican spirituals and gospels. Everybody who likes spirituals, gospels, choir music, african ethno music or simply spiritual music is invited. Here you can find detailed program, press release and video clip.

Why do we say: "Music is religion?"

Young people as well as great majority of population feel music not only as their cultural background but more even as their archetype confirmation.

Afro-American Spirituals as songs come with their power of faith, joy and love emphasising values such as freedom, righteousness and respect to life, traditional family, friendship and truth. They teach people to understand all these positive and constructive values to share and support them.

This is a preparation of the concept to attract people, musicians and organizations which regard Afro-American Spirituals as songs connecting nations. The result would be a database of contacts of musical groups, choirs and musicians dealing with spirituals as their main repertoire. They would be listed at this web page www.afroamericanspirituals.org

This database should

• Enhance basic knowledge of spirituals sang all around the world and information about active performers
• Enable co-operation among musicians as common concerts, trips, country and international festivals
• Help to monitor and support influence of Afro-American Spirituals on local as well as global society

What means slavery in that context:

• slavery as such, i.e. systetmatic abusing of human beings, their personalities, bodies, health and property
• humiliation of children, children’s work
• humiliating position of women in society
• ideologies, theories and systems humiliating, separating, segregating people, such as racism, nazism, communism and others
• idolatry in the form of consumption lifestyle
• any infringement of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted on 10 December 1948 by the General Assembly of the United Nations