Blind Boys of Alabama to perform at MACC’s Castle Theater Dec. 10

The Blind Boys of Alabama, the six-time Grammy Award-winning gospel group, will perform at 7 p.m. Dec. 10 at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s Castle Theater.

MACC members can buy tickets online now. Sales open to the general public at 10 a.m. Friday at mauiarts.org.

Tickets are $29, $49, $69 and $89, with all taxes and fees included. MACC members receive a 10% discount, and keiki ages 3 to 12 pay half price. Prices increase on the day of the show.

Concertgoers are asked to bring nonperishable items for the Maui Food Bank, in keeping with the MACC’s support for communities affected by wildfires, hurricanes and floods.

The group’s career spans more than 70 years. Its honors include lifetime achievement awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Recording Academy, and induction into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Its repertoire ranges from traditional gospel to songs by writers such as Eric Clapton, Prince and Tom Waits.

The group’s most recent album, “Echoes of the South,” was recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and released in August 2023. It earned three Grammy nominations and won Best Roots Gospel Album. A history of the group, “Spirit of the Century,” was published in March 2024.

National Public Radio has called the group “one of the greatest and most venerated gospel groups the world has ever known,” according to the MACC.

For more information, visit mauiarts.org. Membership details are at mauiarts.org/membership.