Gospel Programs
• Gospel Band
Janice Harrington with Werner Guertler (tb), Rick Cotton (p),
Fontaine Burnette (b), Tommie Harris (d) and 3 singers
• Gospel Choir
Janice Harrington with Werner Guertler (tb), Rick Cotton (p)
and up to 10 singers
• Tribute to Mahalia Jackson
• A Gospel Christmas
The Musicians
Werner Guertler is known as one of the most reputated traditional jazz trombone players in northern Germany. Werner is a busy bee, maintaining his own semi-professional traditional jazz band when he is not on tour together with Janice. His profession is piano tuner and he is a highly respected guest musician on many concerts and jazz festivals.
Rick Cotton & The Cotton Singers - A unique family of gospel singers with astounding talents. As a child Rick Cotton together with his sisters formed his first gospel group, later he was the pianist of legendary Little Richard during the famous Rock of Ages-Tour. He and his threee daugthers are celebrated intensely, wherever they perform.
Fontain Burnette Born in Kansas City, Missouri (USA) he now lives in Germany and plays with world class musicians in the styles of Jazz and Classical music to Hard Rock and Hip Hop. He worked with The Temptations, Al Bano Carrisi, Orange Blue, The Weather Girls, Joan Faulkner, David Haynes (Prince, Chaka Khan, Lee Ritenour, Joe Zawinul) in the studio and on stage and wrote songs for artist like N'Sync, Sara Connor, Bro'sis, Toni Cottura and more.
Tommie Harris Tommie Harris was born and raised in Alabama and began his musical career in his teenage years as a gospel singer and drummer. In the early 70's he settled in Germany. In 1987 he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz hall of Fame. Tommie has led his own band as well as backed: Gene "Mighty Flea" Connors, Ron Ringwood, Lindy Huppertsberg, etc. He held the drum spot in Luther Allison's last live band, and has backed many more international artists as Jimmy Reed, Lillian Boutte, Heatwave, Angela Brown, Big Jay McNeely, Al Copley, Red Holloway, Brother Jack McDuff and Chicago Bean, to name a few.