With spirits and voices as vibrant as the colorful streamers that were distributed for the day’s celebration, congregants of Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church celebrated the 125th anniversary of ...
Efrim Menuck is not the best singer. The lead guitarist's oral tone is somewhere between a warble, a wail, a whine and a moan. Yet, in the context of Montreal quintet Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial ...
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra plays Cat’s Cradle Thursday, May 20, at 9 p.m. Free Electric State opens. Tickets are $13-$15. “Musicians are cowards.” That harsh sentiment comes from Efrim ...
After multiple records-- and seemingly more name changes-- the latest Silver Mt. Zion release finds the strings finally moved into the background with guitars located in the foreground, inverting the ...
The original version of Thee Silver Mt. Zion's “Hang On to Each Other” from 2005’s Horses in the Sky was recorded around a campfire: It’s mostly a vocal piece, aside from the rasping harmonium planted ...
James E. Lightfoot, who founded and was the pastor of Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, died Tuesday of cancer. He was 77. Edward Lightfoot described his father as not only a minister, but as a ...
More than six years removed from making his solo debut with Plays "High Gospel," Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Thee Silver Mt. Zion co-fo... Esmerine brings together former Silver Mt. Zion member ...