- Greetings.

I'm Jeanine Hatcher, Executive Director of GenesisHOPE.

We are absolutely thrilled to welcome you to an unforgettable evening of music, one that promises to heal, inspire, and unite.

From Detroit's legendary Harpos Concert Theatre, we proudly present "Gospel Meets the Blues," featuring performances by the electrifying Nikki D and the Sisters of Thunder, the soulful Reverend Robert B. Jones and the Jones Family, and finally, Detroit's Queen of the Blues, Thornetta Davis.

We're honored to share these incredible performances, so please, sit back, get comfortable, and enjoy an exceptional evening of music here at Harpos Theatre.

- Come on, Carl!

Hey!

(upbeat blues guitar music) - [Announcer] Support for this program is provided by the State of Michigan, the Gilbert Family Foundation, and contributions to this PBS station by viewers like you.

Thank you.

- Hey, brothers and sisters, planetary citizens, kings, queens, and inbetweens.

My name is Ismael, Director of the Concert of Colors, and host of "This Island Earth" on WDET.

Before tonight's exciting performance, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank our partners, Detroit PBS, the Gilbert Family, WDET Detroit Public Radio, and our neighborhood partner, GenesisHOPE.

For more information on the Concert of Colors, go to concertofcolors.com.

Sit back, get comfortable, and enjoy an exceptional evening of music here at Harpos Theatre.

♪ Good times roll ♪ I'm gonna wang dang doodle with (indistinct) and Pete ♪ ♪ Bright lights, big city, my baby and me ♪ ♪ Hey, yeah (crowd cheering) - Yeah!

(mellow blues music) ♪ It was a Wednesday mornin' ♪ When I heard my mother scream ♪ ♪ Oh oh oh ♪ So I went downstairs, downstairs ♪ ♪ To see what that screamin' was ♪ ♪ My daddy had a heart attack ♪ It was the week of Easter ♪ He was dead on the kitchen floor ♪ ♪ I said, oh God ♪ Will this be the last time ♪ I see my father alive anymore ♪ ♪ Hey, oh Come on, girls, help me sing.

♪ Oh ♪ Oh no ♪ Ooh ♪ No more ♪ No, no more (soulful blues guitar music) ♪ No more ♪ Oh no ♪ No, no more ♪ Will this be my last Easter without my father ♪ ♪ Oh no ♪ No, no more (dramatic blues music) ♪ No, no ♪ No, no more (dramatic blues music continues) ♪ Woo ♪ Daddy ♪ He answered not ♪ Daddy, can you see me at Harpos in Detroit, Michigan ♪ ♪ Oh, Daddy, hey yeah ♪ He answered not - And see, y'all gotta understand, my daddy was the James Brown of gospel in Toledo, Ohio.

And he loved singin'.

He loved music, ♪ He answered not - but most of all, he loved the Lord.

Do I got some people that love the Lord on tonight?

♪ Say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ He answered not - So sometimes when I get invited, we get invited to venues like this, I often think about all the things my daddy taught me.

♪ He told me as a little girl ♪ He said, one day, baby, you gon' sing to the nations ♪ ♪ And here I am in Detroit, Michigan ♪ ♪ At Harpos Theatre singin' God's praises ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ Yes, when was it ♪ And two years ago ♪ We were able to go to Switzerland ♪ ♪ Vancouver, Canada, Australia ♪ Last week we went to New Orleans ♪ ♪ Don't tell me what God can't do with your ministry ♪ ♪ If you got a ministry, just hold on and don't give up ♪ ♪ Ow But another thing my daddy told me, he said, "Now, Nikki, when you play that guitar," he said, "You gotta make it talk."

And I would do somethin' like this.

Can I make it talk?

Somebody say, "Yeah."

- [Audience] Yeah!

(soulful guitar music) - And then my daddy used to say, "Then you gotta make it sing," and I would do somethin' like this.

(soulful guitar music) - [Band Member] Play, Nikki, play!

- And then he would say, "Now if that didn't make the people happy," like these two, y'all give them a round of applause.

He said, "Do somethin' for the regular people that's sittin' down."

(laughs) And he used to tell me, "Now, baby, if that don't work," he said, "I need you to shoot the rockets."

Now, my daddy, he used to call me little fella, my mother, she gone on and she used to call me wild thing, and I got a sister gone on and she used to call me Nikki D. So if y'all don't mind sayin', "Play, little fella."

- [Band Members] Play, little fella.

- If y'all don't mind sayin', "Play, wild thing."

- [Band Members] Play, wild thing.

- If y'all don't mind, say, "Play, Nikki D." - [Band Members] Play, Nikki D. - I'm gon' shoot these rockets.

Can I do it?

Somebody say, "Yeah!"

♪ Yes, yes, yeah (guitar music crescendoing) ♪ Say yeah ♪ Whoa, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, hey ♪ (dramatic blues music) ♪ One of these mornings, won't be long ♪ ♪ You gon' look for me, I'm gonna be gone ♪ ♪ Goin' somewhere I can sing and shout ♪ ♪ Nobody there to put me out ♪ I got a mother gone, a father, too ♪ ♪ I got a sister gone way too soon ♪ ♪ Oh, oh yeah ♪ Sister, sister, sister, sister, sister, sister ♪ ♪ Don't worry, no, no, no ♪ No, no, no, no, no, no - Come on, sing it!

♪ No, no, no, no, no ♪ Heaven's a thing ♪ We're gonna see them, we're gonna see them, yeah ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, when I get to heaven ♪ Yeah ♪ We gon' see ♪ We gon' see them again ♪ Yeah - Say, "Yeah!"

(upbeat music) Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

(upbeat music continues) Oh!

Come on and help me.

(upbeat music continues) ♪ This little light of mine, oh, oh ♪ ♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪ Whoa ♪ This little light of mine ♪ I'm gonna ♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪ Whoa ♪ This little light of mine ♪ I'm gonna ♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪ Let it shine ♪ Hey ♪ Let it shine ♪ Oh ♪ Gonna let it (bright dramatic music) ♪ Let's go ♪ One in the mornin', gonna let it shine ♪ ♪ Let it shine ♪ Two in the mornin', gonna let it ♪ ♪ Let it shine ♪ Three in the mornin', gonna let it ♪ ♪ Let it shine ♪ Let it shine ♪ Let it shine ♪ Let it shine ♪ Let it ♪ Four in the mornin' ♪ Gonna let it ♪ Let it shine ♪ Five in the mornin', gonna let it ♪ ♪ Let it shine ♪ Six in the mornin' ♪ Gonna let it ♪ Let it shine ♪ Let it shine ♪ Let it shine ♪ Let it shine ♪ Seven in the mornin', gonna let it ♪ ♪ Let it shine ♪ Eight in the mornin' ♪ Gonna let it shine ♪ Let it shine ♪ Nine in the mornin', gonna let it ♪ ♪ Let it shine ♪ Let it shine ♪ Let it shine ♪ Let it shine ♪ 10 in the mornin', gonna let it ♪ ♪ Let it shine ♪ Eleven a.m., gonna let it, oh ♪ ♪ Let it shine ♪ 12 midday I'm gonna let it ♪ Let it ♪ Let it ♪ Let it shine ♪ Let it shine (dramatic music) ♪ Our God is great (dramatic music continues) ♪ Let me hear it (dramatic music continues) ♪ Come on, clap your hands ♪ Come on and clap your hands (dramatic music continues) - Come on, Belinda.

(dramatic music continues) (mellow music) Come on!

Is God holy?

Come on, Chris.

(mellow music) Come on, Christian!

(dramatic drum music) (mellow music) (dramatic drum music) (mellow music) Y'all come on make me some noise.

♪ Somebody scream ♪ Scream ♪ Yes ♪ Yeah We're Nikki D and the Sisters of Thunder.

We got Belinda, Latonya, Gloria, Tomika, Gary, and Christian on drums!

Come on, Chris!

- Chris!

- Yeah!

- Nikki D!

- Nikki D!

(dramatic music) (mellow music) - Hallelujah!

He has risen!

He has risen!

(dramatic music) Thank you!

Come on, take a bow!

(crowd cheering) (graphic whooshes) (upbeat music) (graphic whooshes) (mellow blues music) ♪ When I was just a little boy - [Band Member] Yeah!

♪ The age of five - [Band Member] Woo!

♪ My mama told me that I'd be ♪ The greatest man alive - [Band Member] Yeah!

Yeah!

♪ But now I'm full-grown - [Band Member] Woo!

♪ Way past 21 ♪ I'm here to tell you girls out there ♪ - [Band Member] That's right!

♪ I'm here to have lots of fun (audience member whoops) ♪ I'm a man ♪ Oh, yes - [Band Member] Woo!

♪ I'm a man ♪ I'm a hoochie coochie man ♪ That spells M ♪ Yeah ♪ A, child ♪ N ♪ Now, ain't that a man - [Band Member] Oh yeah!

♪ I say, ain't that a man - [Band Member] Yeah!

Yeah!

- Let's see what you got, girl!

♪ When I was a little girl - Uh-huh.

♪ Only five years old - Uh-huh.

♪ I couldn't do nothin' ♪ To save my doggone soul - Yeah.

♪ And Mama told me ♪ The day you're grown - Yeah!

♪ She said, sing the blues, child ♪ - Sing it from now on!

♪ Sing it from now on ♪ I'm a woman - Yeah!

♪ Oh yeah ♪ I'm a woman ♪ Oh yeah ♪ I hold back lightning ♪ Oh yes ♪ With the palm of my hand - Uh-huh.

♪ Shake hands with the devil ♪ Uh-huh, ooh ♪ Make him crawl in the sand ♪ I'm a woman - Yeah!

♪ And I'll strut my stuff ♪ I'm a woman ♪ I ain't never had enough - You know what?

♪ I'm a man ♪ I'm a full-grown man ♪ I'm a man ♪ I'm a hoochie coochie man - [Band Member] Yes!

♪ That spells M - Woo!

♪ A, child ♪ N ♪ Know me ♪ Oh, child - Come on.

♪ Y ♪ That big mannish boy ♪ I'm a man ♪ I am a full-grown man ♪ I'm a woman ♪ Oh yeah ♪ I'm a woman ♪ Oh I ♪ Oh yeah ♪ I spell W-O ♪ Uh-huh ♪ M-A-N ♪ Yeah ♪ I'm a woman ♪ Whoa, talk your stuff, talk your stuff ♪ ♪ Woman ♪ Talk your stuff, talk your stuff ♪ ♪ Woman ♪ Talk your stuff ♪ Talk your stuff ♪ I'm a woman ♪ Hey ♪ Oh yeah ♪ I'm a man ♪ Oh yeah ♪ Shh, shh, shh ♪ I'm a man ♪ Oh yeah ♪ Hey, yeah ♪ I can satisfy a woman ♪ Oh yeah ♪ In five minutes' time ♪ Oh yeah ♪ (chuckles) Ain't that a man ♪ Oh yeah ♪ Ain't that a man ♪ Oh yeah - Let me tell y'all somethin'.

♪ On the seventh month ♪ Yeah ♪ On the seventh day ♪ On the seventh hour, yeah ♪ Seven doctors say ♪ He was born for good luck - Yeah!

♪ Just wait and see ♪ I got $700, y'all ♪ Don't you mess ♪ Don't you mess with me ♪ I'm a man ♪ I'm a woman ♪ Oh yeah ♪ Oh yeah (gentle guitar music) - How many of you know that the woman always got to get the last word?

Come on, put your hands together.

(audience applauding) Oh, baby, we 'bout to eat this thing up.

(singers chuckle) So listen, as we go home today, we want you to never forget this.

Black joy is about a lotta things.

It's about happiness, it's about sadness, it's about heartbreak, it's about love, it's about money, it's about being broke, it's about having, it's about not having, but most of all, it's about the no matter what we face each and every day, we still keep fighting.

Anybody still fighting out there?

I don't care what the government looks like.

I don't care what the stock market looks like.

I don't care what public opinion looks like.

We gon' keep on fightin'.

So y'all give Sister Bernice a hand as she comes and we give y'all this last song this evening.

♪ Fight on ♪ Oh, you fight on ♪ You fight on ♪ Oh, you fight on ♪ Keep your ♪ Sword in your hand ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ Oh, you fight on ♪ Oh, you fight on ♪ You fight on ♪ Oh, you fight on ♪ Keep your ♪ Sword in your hand ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ Oh, you fight on ♪ Oh, you fight on ♪ You fight on ♪ Oh, you fight on ♪ Keep your ♪ Sword in your hand ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ Jordan River ♪ Shoo ♪ To the ankles ♪ Shoo ♪ Chill my body ♪ Shoo ♪ But not my soul ♪ Shoo ♪ Keep your ♪ Sword in your hand ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ Oh, you fight on ♪ Oh, you fight on ♪ You fight on ♪ Oh, you fight on ♪ Keep your ♪ Sword in your hand ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ One of these mornings ♪ Shoo ♪ Won't be long ♪ Shoo ♪ Look for me ♪ Shoo ♪ And I'll be gone ♪ Shoo ♪ Keep your ♪ Sword in your hand ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ Oh, you fight on ♪ Oh, you fight on ♪ You fight on ♪ Oh, you fight on ♪ Keep your ♪ Sword in your hand ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ Into the valley ♪ Shoo ♪ One day to pray ♪ Shoo ♪ My soul got happy ♪ Shoo ♪ I stayed all day ♪ Shoo ♪ Keep your ♪ Sword in your hand ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ Oh, you fight on ♪ Oh, you fight on ♪ You fight on ♪ Oh, you fight on ♪ Keep your ♪ Sword in your hand ♪ Keep your ♪ Sword in your hand ♪ Keep your ♪ Sword in your hand ♪ Don't give up ♪ Sword in your hand ♪ Keep your ♪ Sword in your hand ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ Don't give up ♪ You fight on ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ Don't give in ♪ You fight on ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on ♪ Oh, you fight on ♪ Oh, you fight on ♪ You fight on ♪ Oh, you fight on ♪ Keep your ♪ Sword in your hand ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on - All right, Nikki, all right.

♪ You fight on (bright music) - Play, Nikki!

Someone say, "Play, Nikki!"

(dramatic guitar music) - [Bernice] Yeah, play!

Play it one more time!

One more time!

- [Reverend] Come on, play, Nikki!

(dramatic music) - Yeah, yeah!

Go ahead, Quinn.

- Go, Quinn!

(dramatic drum music) - All right, honey, all right, it's your turn.

(upbeat music) All right, Jerry, it's on you.

(upbeat music continues) Okay, everybody.

(upbeat music continues) ♪ Oh, you fight on ♪ Oh, you fight on ♪ You fight on ♪ Oh, you fight on ♪ Keep your ♪ Sword in your hand ♪ Keep your ♪ Sword in your hand ♪ Keep your ♪ Sword in your hand ♪ Don't give up, no ♪ Sword in your hand ♪ Keep your ♪ Sword in your hand ♪ You fight ♪ You fight on - Woo!

- Thank you!

- Thank you, Nikki D!

(crowd cheering) (graphic whooshes) (upbeat music) (graphic whooshes) - Yeah, gonna slow it down.

This tune is called "Am I Just a Shadow?"

(drumsticks tapping) - One, two!

(mellow music) ♪ You take me in, keep me from the rest ♪ ♪ You lock me away inside your walls of indecision ♪ ♪ I don't know why you feel the need ♪ ♪ To cut my heart and watch it bleed ♪ ♪ Is that your way to make me pay for her deception ♪ ♪ Do you really know me ♪ Or am I just a shadow ♪ Or someone who reminds you ♪ Of that someone not to love ♪ Vengeance is mine ♪ You say to your heart ♪ But why do you choose to take it all out on me ♪ ♪ You call me a liar when I speak the truth ♪ ♪ You call out her name when I'm here with you ♪ ♪ I'm not the one who left your heart in misery ♪ ♪ And do you really know me ♪ Or am I just a shadow ♪ Of someone who reminds you ♪ Of that someone not to love ♪ Oh no, no, no ♪ Do you really know me ♪ Or am I, am I just a shadow ♪ Am I, am I just a shadow (mellow music) - Philharmonic Hale, y'all, on the keyboards.

(mellow music continues) ♪ I know your pain and I felt it, too ♪ ♪ Your spirit is broken by the things she put you through ♪ ♪ But didn't I show you how it could be ♪ ♪ Or are you afraid to give love to me ♪ ♪ You tell me to go and I won't regret my time with you ♪ ♪ Do you really know me ♪ Or am I just a shadow ♪ Of someone who reminds you ♪ Of that someone not to love ♪ Oh no, no, no ♪ Do you really know me ♪ Or am I, am I just a shadow ♪ Am I, am I just a shadow ♪ Do you know that, or am I just a shadow ♪ ♪ Am I, am I ♪ Am I just a shadow ♪ Do you know me, do you know me, baby ♪ ♪ Oh yeah ♪ Do you know me ♪ Do you know me, baby ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ Am I, am I, am I just a shadow ♪ ♪ Am I, am I just a shadow ♪ Oh ♪ Oh no, no, no ♪ No ♪ No, I'm not a shadow ♪ No, I'm not a shadow, no ♪ No (soulful guitar solo) (bright music) (dramatic music) (crowd cheering) Woo!

Carlton Washington on that guitar, y'all.

(crowd cheering) Yes.

(mellow guitar music) ♪ Ow (funky music) ♪ Funky, funky, funky (funky music continues) ♪ Ow, ow (funky music continues) ♪ They say I'm different 'cause I'm a piece of sugarcane ♪ ♪ And when I kick my leg I got a rhythm ♪ ♪ My great grandma didn't like the fox trot ♪ ♪ Naw, instead she spit her snuff and boogie to Elmore James ♪ ♪ Yeah, uh-huh Spit on it.

(funky music continues) ♪ They say I'm different 'cause I eat chitlins ♪ ♪ I can't help it, I was born and raised on 'em ♪ ♪ That's right, every mornin' I had to slop a hog ♪ ♪ Baby, gettin' off, humpin' to John Lee Hooker, yeah ♪ ♪ Woo, yeah ♪ Listen ♪ They say I'm different 'cause I'm a piece of sugarcane ♪ ♪ Sweet to the core, yeah ♪ I got rhythm ♪ My great grandpa was a blues lover ♪ ♪ He'd be workin' his moonshine to B.B.

King and Jimmy Reed ♪ ♪ Rock on, Pappy ♪ Yeah (funky music continues) ♪ And that's why ♪ They say I'm different ♪ Hey ♪ And that's why ♪ They say I'm strange ♪ I'm talkin' 'bout Big Mama Thornton ♪ ♪ Talkin' 'bout, talkin' 'bout ♪ I'm talkin' 'bout Muddy Waters ♪ ♪ 'Talkin' 'bout, talkin' 'bout ♪ ♪ I'm talkin' 'bout Lightnin' Hopkins ♪ ♪ Albert King ♪ Chuck Berry ♪ Chuck Berry, y'all ♪ Chuck Berry ♪ When I was sweet 16 ♪ That's why ♪ They say I'm different ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ Oh, that's why ♪ They say I'm strange ♪ Talk about it, y'all (funky music) (funky music continues) ♪ Oh, that's why ♪ They say I'm different ♪ Hey, yeah ♪ Oh, that's why ♪ They say I'm strange ♪ I'm talkin' 'bout Muddy Water ♪ ♪ Talkin' 'bout, talkin' 'bout ♪ Talkin' 'bout T-Bone Walker ♪ Talkin' 'bout, talkin' 'bout ♪ I'm talkin' about Leadbelly, Sonny Terry ♪ ♪ And Albert King ♪ Hey ♪ Bessie Smith ♪ Oh, Bessie Smith, oh ♪ Bessie Smith, y'all ♪ Girl, she sure could sing Tell me about it, Phillip.

(funky music) ♪ That's why ♪ They say I'm different ♪ Aw yeah ♪ Oh, that's why ♪ That's why ♪ They say I'm strange, y'all ♪ I'm talkin' 'bout Robert Johnson ♪ ♪ Talkin' 'bout, talkin' 'bout ♪ Robert Johnson ♪ Talkin' 'bout, talkin' 'bout ♪ Robert Johnson, y'all ♪ He played the blues for me ♪ Hey, now that's why ♪ That's why ♪ Hey, hey, oh, that's why ♪ They say I'm funky ♪ Funky, funky, funky, y'all ♪ Oh, that's why ♪ Yeah, oh, that's why ♪ Yeah, hey, hey ♪ Oh, that's why ♪ They say, they say I'm Detroit ♪ ♪ They say I'm Detroit ♪ That's why, why, why, why ♪ Why, why, why, why ♪ That's why, why, why, why ♪ Why, why, why, why ♪ That's why, why, why, why ♪ Why, why, why, why ♪ They say I'm Detroit, they say I'm Detroit ♪ ♪ That's why, why, why, why ♪ That's why, why, why, why ♪ That's why, why, why, why ♪ They say I'm Detroit, they say I'm Detroit ♪ ♪ That's why, why, why, why ♪ Why, why, why, why ♪ That's why, why, why, why ♪ Why, why, why, why ♪ That's why, why, why, why ♪ Why, why, why, why - Detroit, y'all.

(crowd cheering) Thank you!

(crowd cheering) (tense music) ♪ I been run down ♪ I been lied to ♪ And I don't know why ♪ I let that mean make me a fool ♪ ♪ He took all my money ♪ He wrecked my new car ♪ Now he's out with one of my best girlfriends ♪ ♪ Drinkin' at some crosstown bar ♪ ♪ Sometimes I feel ♪ Sometimes I feel ♪ Like I been tied to the whipping post ♪ ♪ Tied to the whipping post ♪ Tied to the whipping post ♪ Good Lord, I feel like I'm dyin' ♪ (funky music) (funky music continues) (funky music continues) ♪ My friends tell me ♪ I'm such a fool ♪ And I gotta stand by and take it, baby ♪ ♪ All for lovin' you ♪ I drown myself in sorrow ♪ As I look at what you've done, yeah ♪ ♪ Nothin' seems to change ♪ The bad times stay the same ♪ And I can't run ♪ Sometimes I feel ♪ Sometimes I feel ♪ Like I been tied to the whipping post ♪ ♪ Tied to the whipping post ♪ Tied to the whipping post ♪ Good Lord, I feel like I'm dyin' ♪ (funky music) (funky music continues) (dramatic music) ♪ Sometimes I feel ♪ Sometimes I feel ♪ Yeah, like I been tied to the whipping post ♪ ♪ Tied to the whipping post ♪ Tied to the whipping post ♪ Good Lord, I feel like I'm dyin' ♪ (crowd cheering) (dramatic music) Philharmonic Hale on the keys.

Joe Veloz on the bass.

Dave Marcaccio on the drums.

Carlton Washington on the guitar.

Jam-a-lot, indeed.

James Anderson on the congas, y'all.

Detroit Musicians in the house.

- Yeah!

(crowd cheering) - Thank you so much.

(blues guitar riff) ♪ Everything gon' be, yeah ♪ Everything gon' be, yeah ♪ Everything gon' be all right ♪ Yeah (upbeat music) ♪ Well, my baby up and left me ♪ Did me a favor when he did ♪ Do, do, do ♪ He been lyin' all along ♪ 'Bout another woman and two kids ♪ ♪ Do, do ♪ Do, do, do ♪ He wasn't mine anyway ♪ I'm not sad to see him go ♪ Bye ♪ He was no good anyhow ♪ And he spent up all my dough ♪ Do, do, do ♪ Do, do, do ♪ And I believe, I believe everything gon' be all right ♪ ♪ It's gonna be all right ♪ Gonna be all right ♪ I believe, I believe everything gon' be all right ♪ ♪ I believe, I believe, whoa ♪ Did my cryin' in the evenin' ♪ Joy gon' come in the mornin' light ♪ ♪ Yeah (mellow music) (upbeat music) ♪ Woo ♪ Oh yeah ♪ See Brother Charlie, ha, walkin' down the street one day ♪ ♪ Do, do, do ♪ Do, do, do ♪ He said, sister, can ya help me ♪ ♪ I need some food right away, yeah ♪ ♪ Do, do, do ♪ Do, do, do ♪ Well, I reached in my pocket ♪ And I gave him what I had ♪ Do, do, do ♪ Do, do, do ♪ He said, God bless you, sister ♪ ♪ Now I don't feel so bad ♪ Do, do, do ♪ Do, do, do ♪ Now I believe, I believe ♪ I believe ♪ Everything gon' be all right ♪ Everything's gonna be all right, now ♪ ♪ Everything's gonna be all right ♪ ♪ I believe, I believe ♪ Everything gon' be all right ♪ Everything's gonna be all right, now ♪ ♪ Everything's gonna be all right ♪ ♪ I believe, I believe ♪ Whoa, did my cryin' in the evenin' ♪ ♪ Joy gon' come in the mornin' light ♪ - Trust and believe it, y'all.

Trouble gonna last always.

Come on.

(upbeat music) - Yeah!

(upbeat music continues) Come on!

(upbeat music continues) Oh!

(mellow music) ♪ I turn on the TV ♪ Bad news is all they say, yeah ♪ ♪ Seem like war and destruction ♪ ♪ Is happenin' every day, yeah ♪ Do ooh ♪ Then I seen a smilin' soldier ♪ ♪ He ain't seen his baby in two years ♪ ♪ Do ooh ♪ He said, I'm goin' home tomorrow ♪ ♪ Mm-Hmm ♪ Uh-huh ♪ Start cryin' happy tears ♪ Oh oh ♪ I believe ♪ I believe ♪ Everything gon' be all right ♪ I believe ♪ I believe ♪ Everything gon' be all right ♪ Everything gonna be all right, y'all ♪ ♪ Everything gonna be all right ♪ ♪ I believe, I believe, I believe ♪ ♪ Everything gon' be all right ♪ Everything gonna be all right, now ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ I believe, I believe ♪ I believe ♪ Oh oh oh ♪ Did my cryin' in the evenin' ♪ Joy gon' come ♪ Did my cryin' in the evenin' ♪ Won't you come ♪ Did my cryin' in the evenin' ♪ Oh ♪ Joy gon' come in the mornin' ♪ Light ♪ Yeah (upbeat music) - Go on, brother.

(upbeat music) ♪ Gonna be all right ♪ Gonna be all right ♪ Gonna be all right ♪ Yeah ♪ Gonna be all right ♪ Yeah ♪ Gonna be all right ♪ Gonna be all right ♪ Gonna be all right, yeah ♪ Gonna be all right ♪ Everything gon' be all right ♪ Gonna be all right ♪ Gonna be all right ♪ Yeah ♪ Gonna be all right ♪ Yeah ♪ Yeah, yeah, Lord ♪ Gonna be all right ♪ All right ♪ Gonna be all right ♪ It's gonna be all right ♪ Gonna be all right ♪ Oh Lord ♪ Gonna be all right ♪ Yeah ♪ The Bible says ♪ Gonna be all right ♪ Gonna be all right ♪ Gonna be all right ♪ In the Bible, Lord ♪ Gonna be all right ♪ Yeah, gonna be all right ♪ All right ♪ All right ♪ Everything's all right ♪ Everything's all right ♪ Gonna be all right ♪ It's gonna be all right ♪ Everything's all right ♪ Yeah ♪ Everything's all right ♪ Oh ♪ Yeah, Nikki ♪ Yeah - God bless, y'all!

♪ Gonna be all right - [Thornetta] I love you.

Thank you for comin' out and supportin' all this live music.

We can't do it without you.

♪ Gonna be all right - See y'all next year.

Peace.

Thank you, Concert of Colors.

Bye!

♪ All right ♪ All right ♪ All right ♪ Yeah ♪ All right ♪ All right ♪ All right ♪ Yeah (dramatic music) - [Nikki] Yeah!

(dramatic music continues) - [Nikki] Thornetta!

- We love y'all.

- Thornetta Davis!

The queen!

- Rory Jones and Barry!

I'm Thornetta Davis and the band.

We love y'all.

- We love you!

- Bye!

(dramatic music) (crowd cheering) - Thank you!

(crowd cheering) - [Band Member] Yeah, you know.

- [Announcer] Support for this program is provided by the State of Michigan, the Gilbert Family Foundation, and contributions to this PBS station by viewers like you.

Thank you.

(bright music)