Reverend Vince Anderson is an American,

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based musician. He has performed a weekly show every Monday night at Union Pool in Brooklyn for over 25 years. Reverend Vince calls his high energy gospel-rock music "dirty gospel", and has been described as a Brooklyn institution. "Get out of his way. With two decades of sharing worship and making music at a Brooklyn bar, the Rev. Vince Anderson appears to be unstoppable." - ''The New York Times'' Reverend Vince is the subject of a documentary called ''The Reverend.'' Winner of the

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Audience Award, the film follows Vince's music and ministry. It was released theatrically by

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, and is now streaming on

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, and NightFlight Plus. In the early 1990s, Anderson studied to become a minister, but dropped out to pursue music. Reverend Vince ran a church for progressive evangelicals with

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, and now is director of music and community development for a few church communities in New York City. Vince works nationally with the organization

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. His band The Love Choir consists of "Moist" Paula Henderson,

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, Dave "Smoota" Smith, and Ryan Sawyer. Musicians who have performed at Vince's weekly residency include

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, members of

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, Meah Pace,

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, Resistance Revival Chorus,

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, The Harlem Gospel Travelers, Julia Haltigan, and

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. '' Time Out'' describes his weekly show as "somewhere between Wesley Willis and Tammy Faye Messner". He has also been called "the Holy Sprit meets the Tasmanian Devil"

Partial discography

* ''Rev Vince Anderson & The Love Choir''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Reverend Vince Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Musicians from New York City American gospel musicians