[musictlk] Blind Boys of Alabama Facebook page

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I hope this helps, and could help you find what you're looking for; 
sometimes facebook can be challenging to us with screen reading software!

Description.

>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Blind Boys of Alabama are a gospel group from Alabama that first formed 
at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind at Talladega, Alabama in 1939. 
The three main vocalists of the group and their drummer/percussionist are 
all blind.

As of 2010, The Blind Boys of Alabama continue to tour nationally and 
internationally, with Jimmy Carter singing lead vocals. In 2006, Clarence 
Fountain, the group's former long-time lead vocalist and founding member 
limited his touring for health reasons. Founding member George Scott died on 
March 9, 2005 at the age of 75. Another founding member, Johnny Fields, died 
on November 12, 2009.

Awards

Releases by the group in recent years have been favorites at the Grammy 
Awards-they won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album four 
straight years between 2002 and 2005. The Blind Boys of Alabama were 
inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2007. In 2009, they were 
awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

In the early 1980s, the Blind Boys of Alabama performed in the Obie 
Award-winning musical The Gospel at Colonus; their involvement in the 
production has continued into the twenty-first century, including a 2008 
performance in Athens, Greece, near the original performance location of 
Sophocles's play Oedipus at Colonus, where Jimmy Carter took over the role 
of Oedipus originally created for Clarence Fountain. This was followed by 
performances in 2009 in Edinburgh Scotland at the Edinburgh International 
Festival and in 2010 at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina

Basic Information.

Website

http://www.blindboys.com/

Source.

Description above from the Wikipedia article Five Blind Boys Of Alabama, 
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jorge Paez" <computertechjorgepaez at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List" <musictlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2011 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [musictlk] Blind Boys of Alabama Facebook page


> Joshua:
> I think it could be some stuff they may have added to their page, though I 
> will say FB has gotten a lot of complaints from screenreader users, so its 
> most likely Facebook's coding at fault.
>
> On May 1, 2011, at 1:34 AM, Joshua Lester wrote:
>
>> Hi, i'm Joshua Lester.
>> I'm having trouble getting the Blind Boys of Alabama's Facebook page
>> to cooperate with Jaws.
>> Is this a Facebook problem, or a Jaws problem?
>> Is this also just a problem with their Facebook page, or is it 
>> everyone's?
>> Please get back to me.
>> Thanks, Joshua
>>
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