Freedom Song: When Gospel Came to the Empire tells the true story of the Jubilee Singers.

In 1871 a group of singers from Nashville, Tennessee, took to the road to raise money for their university. But this was no ordinary student choir. The Fisk Jubilee Singers were freed slaves. Their mission was not only to build the first black University after emancipation but to fight for the right of all African Americans to be educated.

A century and a half later, community choir Vox Holloway is teaming up with the Hackney Empire Community Choir and young people from local schools to tell the Jubilee Singers' inspiring story. Working from diaries, historical records and the choir's own songbook, composer Harvey Brough and playwright Justin Butcher have reconstructed their struggles.

The choir is joined by a professional band and soloists on a musical journey which celebrates the power of music to overcome oppression and bring people from all backgrounds together.

Tracks:

CD 1
1. Nobody Knows the Trouble I See, Lord
2. Jes' Like the Hogs
3. There is a Balm in Gilead
4. We Was Scared o' the Overseer and His Whip
5. In Bright Mansions Above
6. John Brown - Dixieland
7. We Can't Git Out on the Road
8. John Brown II - Battle of the Two Tunes
9. Abraham Lincoln - George White
10. Woke Up This Morning - I
11. Infants to Greybeards
12. Great Getting Up Morning
13. Growing Anxiety
14. Oh, I'm a Going to Sing
15. Progress Made by These Singing Classes
16. He's the Lily of the Valley
17. Some Air of Mystery
18. Steal Away - I
19. We Never Dream o' Singing These Songs in Public
20. Woke Up This Morning - II
21. The Gospel Train is Coming - I
22. We Shall Walk Through the Valley in Peace
23. The Gospel Train is Coming - II

CD 2
1. Roll, Jordan, Roll
2. Roll, Jordan, Roll - II
3. The Jubilee Singers
4. Deep River
5. Mr Mark Twain
6. Steal Away - II
7. Worthy a Place in History
8. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
9. But What of Us?
10. Go Down, Moses
11. A Man of Sorrows
12. Words o' Freedom
13. Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
14. Listen to the Angels Shouting
15. The Dream and Hope of the Slave
16. John Brown - Final
17. Freedom Chorus