The group is stacked with IBMA Best Instrumentalist winners including Grand Master fiddle champion and American Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year nominee Maddie Denton, Cory Walker (banjo) and Harry Clark (mandolin). They perform alongside charismatic frontman James Kee and bassist Jeff Partin (Rhonda Vincent, etc.) making them a powerhouse leader of the next generation in bluegrass excellence.

Rooke Chapel's choir will be practicing every Sunday morning at 9:30am lead by Dr. Caleb Hopkins.

Guitarists Meng Su and Yameng Wang, who are Beijing Guitar Duo, have performed around the world in halls such as Concertgebouw, Palau de Musica, Tchaikovsky Hall and National Theatre in Beijing. The duo regularly collaborates with orchestras as well as in ensemble with flutist Marina Piccinini, guitarists the Grigoryan Brothers and legendary guitarist Manuel Barrueco, and have toured in Europe, Australia, Asia and the U.S. When at the Weis Center they will perform:Franck - Prelude, Fugue et Variation, Op.18 Debussy - Petite Suite Gnattali - Suite Retratos Tan Dun - From Eight Memories in Watercolor, Op. 1 Albeniz - Bajo la Palmera Piazzolla - Tango Suite

Bringing together Ephrat Asherie Dance's exhilarating choreography that remixes and reconnects various street and club dance styles and an original composition featuring O'Farrill's trademark Latin jazz sound, Shadow Cities explores what it means to be and to feel the in-between.

Rooke Chapel provides Childcare during our Gospel Residency from 11am-12pm

The 2025-26 Rooke Chapel Gospel Music Fellowship offers current master's or doctoral students (and recent graduates) the opportunity to cultivate the Gospel music tradition within a vibrant, multicultural University worship setting. The fellow leads, in collaboration with the Protestant chaplain and director of music, weekend residencies open to students, staff, faculty and the local community through the course of the academic year, which are designed to teach, explore and celebrate Gospel music. Rooke Chapel is pleased to welcome back Rev. Angela Jones as our 2025-2026 Gospel Music Fellow! The Rev. Angela Jones is a Howard University School of Divinity graduate and gospel recording artist who has performed with genre Billboard-charting artists such as Richard Smallwood, Yolanda Adams, Bebe Winans, Marvin Sapp, Brandon Camphor & OneWay, to name a few. Her singing group, Brandon Camphor & One Way, has been nominated for Stellar Awards, has been included on Billboard's top-30 chart four times, and has received three Wammie Awards. Jones currently serves as minister of worship arts at Word For Life Church Ministries in Maryland. In 2024-25 Rev. Jones served as the Rooke Chapel Gospel Music Fellow and we look forward to welcoming her back to Bucknell. Join us Saturdays 2pm-4pm for rehearsals and Sunday 11am-12pm. Learn more about Rev. Angela here: https://www.bucknell.edu/life-bucknell/diversity-equity-inclusion/religious-spiritual-life/rooke-chapel/rooke-chapel-gospel-music-fellowship (https://www.bucknell.edu/life-bucknell/diversity-equity-inclusion/religious-spiritual-life/rooke-chapel/rooke-chapel-gospel-music-fellowship) Contact chapel@bucknell.edu with any questions. Co-sponsored by the Office of Religious & Spiritual Life, the Rooke Chapel Congregation, The Griot Institute for the Study of Black Lives & Cultures, the Bucknell University Choir, and Voice Lab. Rooke Chapel values inclusion and is committed to ensuring accessibility. To request an accommodation or for questions about accessibility, please contact chapel@bucknell.edu or dial 711 for TDD/TTY.