Society of American Music Conference: Vivian Perlis Concert featuring The Legendary Ingramettes
Fri, Mar 13
|Modlin Center for the Arts
Join us for an unforgettable evening of soul-stirring gospel rooted in family, faith, and musical legacy.
Time & Location
Mar 13, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Modlin Center for the Arts, 453 Westhampton Way, Richmond, VA 23173, USA
About the event
About the Legendary Ingramettes
Six decades of music, sixty-five years of song, generations tied together through the force of will of a matriarchy of powerful Black women. This is the African-American gospel group The Legendary Ingramettes, founded by Maggie Ingram (who passed away in 2015) as a way to keep her family together through hardship.
Inspired by the Black gospel male quartets of the 1940s and 50s, now known as Richmond, Virginia’s “First Family of Gospel Music”, The Legendary Ingramettes bring roof-raising harmonies and explosively powerful vocals, all driven by the voices of women backed by a rock-solid house-shaking rhythm section.
Born Maggie Lee Dixon on July 4, 1930, on Mulholland’s Plantation in Coffee County, Georgia, she grew up working the cotton and tobacco fields with her parents. She developed a great love for the church and gospel music, teaching herself to sing and play and play an old upright…