Sponsored by Indiana University’s Archives of African American Music and Culture, African American Arts Institute, and the Office of the Provost & Executive Vice President

On March 9, award-winning producer and gospel music announcer Jacquie Gales Webb will present a free public lecture in the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center’s Grand Hall at 4:00 p.m. The lecture will be followed by a reception honoring her distinguished career and the establishment of the Jacquie Gales Webb Collection at Indiana University’s Archives of African American Music and Culture.

Jacquie Gales Webb, an award winning producer and radio on-air personality, has hosted the number one “Sunday Afternoon Gospel” music program in Washington, DC since 1990 on 96.3 WHUR. She is also a freelance arts reporter for WAMU and the national arts program “Studio 360” at WNYC, New York.

Gales Webb created and produced programming for six years at W*USA-TV Channel 9 in Washington D.C., and served as host and producer of the award-winning public television broadcast “Melodies from Heaven,” which explored African American gospel radio in Washington, DC. Her work in television has garnered six local Emmy Awards and 14 nominations from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She has also written and produced radio documentary segments for NPR and the Library of Congress, including the 1995 radio series, “Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was,” which was the recipient of a Peabody Award from the University of Georgia and an Alfred I. DuPont Silver Baton from Columbia University. In 1999, she served as executive producer of the award-winning public radio series “Remembering Slavery,” and in 2001 executive produced the 13-hour radio documentary “Jazz Singers” for the Smithsonian and Public Radio International.

Gales Webb received a Bachelor of Science in Speech, cum laude, from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. In 2012, the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses presented Ms. Webb with a Lifetime Achievement Award for continuous service and support of gospel music. Her performance and body of work in the gospel music industry was instrumental in WHUR receiving the 2009 Stellar Award for Major Market Station of the Year. In 2014, Gales Webb was inducted into the WERB Hall of Fame at Emerson College, and in 2015 the Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts (CAAPA) recognized Jacquie Gales Webb’s artistic contributions.

Cost: Free

For more information contact:

Indiana University Archives of African American Music and Culture
(812) 855-8547
[email protected]