Children were everywhere, wandering happily through the aisles. Grandmothers in their Sunday best (one woman near me arrived wearing white gloves) shared the day with sinuous beauties who looked as if they had been sewn into their glittering, popsicle-colored mini-dresses. "The Lord won't wash us out."Īnd so the Southwest Airlines Bobby Jones Gospelfest, a two-day celebration featuring some of the leading names in this vibrant, exuberant and endlessly fertile music - from long-established performers such as Shirley Caesar and Dottie Peoples through younger artists like Yolanda Adams and Fred Hammond & Radical for Christ - came off in high style. "We have the Holy Spirit with us today," he said with a sure grin. Slate-gray clouds, pregnant with rain, hovered over RFK Stadium most of Saturday afternoon, but the promised thunderstorms never arrived, and my new friend Freddy ("No last name, just Freddy") thought he knew why.
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