Kaleidoscopic: Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens

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Kaleidoscopic: Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens

POSTED: Monday, May 4, 2009, 6:00 PM

Filed Under: Kaleidoscopic | Music Watch

kaleidoscope-1 In this week's Kaleidoscope, Pat Rapa wrote about Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens. Here's what he said:

This'll be a fun test for the wide-open-mind hipsters and the spiritual-not-religious tourists who'll come to the Keswick on Wednesday to bask in the secular-ish glory of Sharon Jones. Because opening act Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens is the righteous real deal. She's an Alabama church singer who uses her magnificent pipes to praise God with every breath. Will there be shoutin' in the amen corner? Will the kids skip her set for a 45-minute smoke break? Or will they testify?

Take a listen Shelton and her ladies sing "What Have you Done?"

Here, Shelton and her bandleader, Cliff Driver, discuss their new album, What Have you Done, My Brother? (out May 26 on Daptone Records):

'And just in case you don't think Ms. Shelton can own it live (extra points for the AMAZING outfit)'

With Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Wed., May 8, 8 p.m., $25-30, Keswick Theatre, 291 N. Keswick Ave., Glenside, PA, 19038, 215-572-7650, keswicktheatre.com.

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