On March 7, the Newcomb College Institute’s Skau Art and Music fund sponsored Mahalia's New Orleans: A Concert and Conference in Honor of Mahalia Jackson. This 9-minute video summary of the event deftly interweaves discussion of Jackson's work with performance clips. Participants include Irma Thomas, Dr. Michael White, Cynthia Girtley, and Diane Peterson.

"Soul is not a genre, it's a feeling." --Irma